Right Wing Grifters Are Tapping Into Manufactured GOP Rage Over "Benghazi" To Raise Money For Themselves-- And "Fire" Boehner

"Benghazi" is a Republican Party cudgel, albeit a flimsy one, to use as an anti-Hillary weapon in 2016. Normal people don't pay it much heed but it motivates the far right conspiracy theory fringe who get the bulk of their information from Hate Talk Radio and Fox. And that group has so bought into it that there is now serious blowback against Republicans for not "doing something about Benghazi." This is what happens when children play with matches.

The latest child to get burned dies his hair, employees a discreet plastic surgeon and doesn't look nearly his 63 years. John Boehner is the target of a shady extremist group with their own hyperbolic little super PAC, Revive America. Last cycle the PAC-- apparently typical right-wing grifters fleecing the flock, raised a total of $156,919. The founder and "president" is Bob Adams, a former ALEC advisor who worked for Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign and is trying to get elected to something in West Virginia. The PAC didn't contribute anything to any candidates and the only expenditure that didn't go to themselves was a $20,000 I.E. on behalf of a failed GOP primary candidate for senator in New York, Robert Turner. Last year their only really big donor was a sleazy outfit in Centreville, Virginia, Freeeatscom, Inc ($17,750), the country's most pernicious push-poll and robocall company. Another big donor ($1,000) was reindeer rancher and Santa Claus actor Kerry Bentivolio, now a Michigan congressman.

So far this year, the PAC has raised $11,777, most of it from 3 donors, Robert Rogers, a retired man in Seattle, Gregory McNece in Davis, California and Shirley Xavier in Denver. And this year their big initiative is to "fire" Boehner-- or at least to get people to sign a petition that seeks to oust him for his refusal to appoint a special committee to investigate "Benghazi." They have a radio ad running on fringe Hate Talk shows.

"We need urgent action today by thousands of Americans to fire John Boehner," the ad's narrator says. "Speaker Boehner is personally blocking a special committee to expose the truth about the 911 Benghazi terror attack. It's just enough to make you sick."

The groups says it's "tested" its ad this week on Fox News, Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" program and Mark Levin’s radio show.

"Until Boehner is removed, the Benghazi committee will not be formed," Bob Adams, the head of the PAC, said Friday night in a statement.

Boehner has resisted the calls for a special committee, arguing that the issue can be handled by the existing committees of jurisdiction.

But the pressure is mounting on him to reconsider. More than 170 House Republicans have endorsed the creation of a special panel to investigate the Benghazi tragedy-- an idea first championed by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.)-- arguing that an examination by the normal oversight panels are not enough.

On Wednesday, which marked the one-year anniversary of the attack, Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.) penned a letter to Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) arguing that the families of the four victims-- including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens-- "deserve to know what happened."

"Five committees have conducted investigations, as well as the State Department, but still no one has been held accountable for this attack," Fitzpatrick wrote. "The terrorists remain at-large; and the bureaucrats who fumbled the response remain at their posts."

...Revive America USA, meanwhile, is using their "fire Boehner" drive as a fundraiser.

"There is no limit to what you can donate," Friday's email reminds readers. "Revive America PAC can accept unlimited individual and corporate contributions."