Subject: McCarthy Isn’t Alone: Republicans are the reason Americans are frustrated with Washington
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:48:17 +0000

In the day and a half since Republican House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy acknowledged that he and his colleagues “fought” to “put together a Benghazi” select committee to influence the 2016 presidential election, more evidence has emerged that the Republican Party is using millions in taxpayer money to play political games.

Republicans were willing to spend $350,000 for a partisan lawsuit to stop the Affordable Care Act, a law that the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld and is helping millions of Americans. And Republicans have budgeted as much as $4.6 million<http://cha.house.gov/sites/republicans.cha.house.gov/files/4_15%20Benghazi_Redacted.pdf>  for the Benghazi committee.

And not surprisingly Republicans running for president have defended it. Despite being the longest congressional investigation in history – longer<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-benghazi-probe-longest-congressional-history/story?id=34105976> than investigations of Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Assassination of President Kennedy, the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and Hurricane Katrina – Jeb Bush said<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAXcZ3UcpzQ&feature=youtu.be> just this morning that it should continue.

To not be outdone, yesterday on CNN’s Situation Room<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIiAAdTlHgU&feature=youtu.be>, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz twisted himself into knots trying to defend the partisan witch-hunt against Planned Parenthood and even acknowledged<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIiAAdTlHgU&feature=youtu.be> directly that when it comes to funding for Planned Parenthood, “there are no federal dollars that go to abortions, I get that.” Chaffetz’s admission was as telling as McCarthy’s given that House Republicans and Republican presidential candidates called for a government shutdown – despite the fact that it cost the economy $24 billion last time – to try to defund Planned Parenthood over abortions he now admits have nothing to do with federal dollars.

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have<http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/rand-paul-nsa-senate-rules-violation/> been<http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/ted-cruz-rand-paul-2016-senate-floor/> using the Senate Floor as a presidential campaign rally stage, pushing to defund Planned Parenthood, while other presidential candidates are cheering<http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/09/20/carly-fiorina-defends-possible-government-shutdown-defund-planned-parenthood> them<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/20/chris-christie-carly-fiorina-say-government-shutdo/> on.  Meanwhile Marco Rubio says he stood<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk5I9QA8l0g&feature=youtu.be> right with Cruz over shutting down the government, and has been campaigning rather<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/marco-rubio-john-conyers-absent-congress-115281> than doing the job taxpayers have paid him to do.  Rubio has missed 81 votes (that’s 30%!) just this year and hearings on crucial issues like China, Iran and even ISIS. And he’s the one claiming the most foreign policy experience in the Republican race.

This is why the American people are frustrated with Washington.