Gaffe of the Week

A political gaffe has been described as when a politician inadvertently tells the truth.  Here's our prizewinner from South Secession Carolina Rep. Trey "Deuce" Gowdy, referring to the Benghazi! Benghazi! BENGHAZI!! select kangaroo court committee that he will chair: 

“If an administration is slow-walking document production, I can’t end a trial simply because the defense won’t cooperate.” (emphasis added)

Republicans have been trying to sell this political stunt as an "investigation" but clearly they intend to put Administration officials, and especially former Secretary of State and Dem Presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, on "trial" through the 2016 election season.

BONUS:  By the way, here are the answers that have already been provided -- often multiple times --  to the questions that the Rethugs keep asking, courtesy of Media Matters.

BONUS II:  Charles P.  Pierce has taken to calling Gowdy "Captain Kangaroo," both in reference to the kind of "court" he will be running, but also because of a certain hirsute resemblance to someone else (click to enlarge):

Captain Kangaroo, with moustache.

"Captain Kangaroo" without moustache.