I'm lazy: Can someone summarize Benghazi, Petraeus, Susan Rice and so on?

[Proud Public Servant]

8. Try this

Since Republicans live in their own special universe (and, heck, since you're using the Starship Enterprise as an avatar), let's take that metaphor and run with it.

Think of Benghazi as the sun. Think of the various things that make Republicans apoplectic about Benghazi as planets orbiting that sun.

Planet 1 is supposedly Rice's performance on the Sunday shows after Benghazi, where she conveyed talking points that later proved to be inaccurate or incomplete.

Planet 2 is the Petraeus thing, which is unrelated to Benghazi per se but which led to his resignation right before the Benghazi hearings, something wingnuts decided was suspicious.

Basically, GOPstronomers are looking for signs of life on one of these planets, while hoping to discover other planets as well. They've already conceded that Planet Petreaus, like our own Venus, is hot and humid but cannot sustain life. So now they've got McCain, a/k/a "Rover," crawling all over the surface of Planet Rice. No life there yet either, but the probe continues.

Make sense now?