Decency biggest casualty in Roskam's grilling of Clinton

It was painful to watch my Congressman Peter Roskam question Hillary Clinton Thursday at the sham Republican Benghazi hearings. Not having even a toy gun, much less a smoking gun, to smear Clinton's presidential bid, Roskam simply made stuff up to portray Clinton in the worst possible light. He used a standard Roskam rhetorical devise, a 'theory' in which to expound on how Clinton was responsible for the deaths of four state department employees stationed in Benghazi. His theory was just that; Roskam's worst possible interpretation of Clinton's motives as the attack unfolded in which to discredit her. He even used a shabby theatrical devise, dramatically ripping up what he purported to be critical communications, to demonstrate his imagined lethal insensitivity on her part. He constantly interrupted and disparaged her. Clinton didn't lash back as any fair-minded viewer would want her to. She coolly looked at him in disgust as if to say, 'I sure feel sorry for the residents of Illinois' Sixth."

Clinton didn't have an attorney to assist her in refuting Roskam's fantastic 'theory' of her wrongdoing; she responded effectively on her own. But had one been present, he might have channeled Joseph Welch at the June, 1954, Army-McCarthy Hearings and responded: "You've done enough, Congressman Roskam. At long last, have you no sense of decency?"