I honestly don't get the whole Benghazi-Gate thing. What exactly are Republicans alleging? That the Obama administration "covered up" the true nature of the attack for what, a day or two? That's a scandal worthy of endless congressional hearings? That he didn't use the word "terrorism" fast enough? Really?

Where's the crime? Where's the motive? What exactly did the administration have to gain from initially suggesting that the attack was spontaneous rather than organized? And why the fuck does our media continue to cover this show trial when the allegations raised, even if proven true, amount to little more than a charge of sloppy PR?

That said, I have learned one important thing from the Benghazi hearings, which is that Republicans are really as fecklessly partisan and unpatriotic as I've always suspected them to be.

For years now, I have contended that had Al Gore been president at the time of the 9/11 attacks, rather than rallying around the president as congressional Democrats did (thus enabling Bush's anti-tax/pro-war agenda), the Republican majority would have seized upon the greatest intelligence failure in US history as a justification for impeaching Gore. That's the way Republicans roll. And these bullshit Benghazi hearings only confirm my suspicions.

A US ambassador was murdered. But Republicans can never rally around a Democratic president at a time of national crisis because they simply are not capable of accepting a Democratic president as legitimate. They never accepted President Clinton's legitimacy (ultimately impeaching him for lying about a blow job after years of investigating more substantive imaginary scandals). They certainly wouldn't have accepted President Gore's legitimacy had the Supreme Court allowed Florida to complete its recount. And they clearly don't accept the legitimacy of the twice-elected (but Kenyan-born) President Barack Hussein Obama. Hence the endless conspiracy theories.

Because when there's a usurper on the throne, I guess anything is possible.