Still Waiting for Answers

For those of us that are calendar-impaired, it is now nearly four months since the awful events at Benghazi, Libya unfolded, leaving four Americans, including our Ambassador, dead at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Were it not for this terrible toll suffered in conjunction by a total destruction of diplomatic respect and protocol. the lack of response by the American Government would be laughable.

While many Americans think that this chain of events certainly raises to the highest level of governmental concerns, the president has chosen to push what little responsibility he has taken down the chain of command. The head of the CIA has been sacked, but not for any malfeasance related to his responsibility for the Benghazi deaths. Apparently several mid-level State Department drones were fired, but on further investigation, it seems that they haven't really lost their jobs after all.

All of which leaves us with Hillary, who is still(?) head of the State Department. While she did accept "responsibility" albeit phoned in from Peru, she has gone from being silent to, as of late, being invisible as well. Her strategy here seems to be to keep running out the clock until her replacement is sworn in.

This strategy should come as no surprise to those of us who remember the Clinton White House years with its chains of unanswered questions regarding Whitewater and those Rose Law Firm billing records. Assuming that she continues to be a no-show at the Congressional hearings on Benghazi, there is really only one last touch stone left in this saga. Hillary obviously subscribes to the Leona Helmsley school of social responsibility which might counsel: Hearings? Hearings are for the little people.

So now, the last remaining question is the over and under on the exact date that Hillary will turn the final page on responsibility. This would be the date on which some intrepid questioner will ask herself about the 9/11/2012 fiasco. The response will be a quick look of disbelief, followed by something along the line: We've been over and over that and it is, frankly, old news. We think the American people want to turn the page and put that behind us. When this happens, the campaign for 2016 will have officially begun.