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All garbage, of FRXUVHEXWDQRSSRUWXQLW\WRVOLPH DSRWHQWLDOSROLWLFDORSSRQHQWLVQR time to go ethical. 5HSXEOLFDQFRQWUROOHGVWDQGLQJ committees in Congress have con- ducted no fewer than eight inves- tigations into the matter so far, all IDOORZ1RWVDWLV¿HG5HSXEOLFDQV IRUPHGDVSHFLDOFRPPLWWHHWRLQ- vestigate the incident. That was 16 months and $4 million ago. Now they’ve discov- ered that some of Hillary’s emails mentioned — you guessed it — Benghazi. That means more hear- ings on the way. 7KLVIURPD&RQJUHVVWKDW¶VMXVW come off one of its interminable vacations and given itself 12 days to vote on the Iran nuclear deal, SDVV D FRPSOH[ VSHQGLQJ ELOO DQGVWDJHDZHOFRPHSDUW\IRUWKH SRSH7KHQRXUODZPDNHUVZLOOJR on vacation again so they can go back home and tell voters what a EDQJXSMREWKH\¶UHGRLQJ Oh, I forgot. There’s Planned Parenthood, too. $ KDUG\ EDQG RI 5HSXEOLFDQV is threatening to refuse to vote IRU DQ\ VSHQGLQJ ELOO WKDW SUR- vides federal health care money for Planned Parenthood, which DPRQJRWKHUWKLQJVSURYLGHVDERU- WLRQVIRUSRRUZRPHQWKRXJKQRW with federal funds). They say that if their demands aren’t met, they’ll shut down the government. That’s it, then. Hillary Clinton’s emails, Benghazi, and Planned Parenthood. Solve those and all our troubles are over. Not. OtherWords columnist Donald Kaul lives in Ann Arbor, Mich.
