Elijah Cummings - typical political hack.

We knew exactly what to expect from the Democrat ranking member on the Benghazi Committee in his opening statement today - namely, a rant about how the committee is being used merely for political purposes to derail Clinton's presidential campaign.  "Nothing to see here - move along."

Cummings has 2 problems, of course:

1.  Ms. Clinton is before the committee regarding her actions as Secretary of State and would be sitting exactly where she is this morning whether she were running for office or not.

2.  Lots of Republicans are hoping that Clinton IS the Democrat candidate in 2016 because there's no one in the party who has more characterological baggage, has flip-flopped on more issues, who fakes ethnic and regional accents in front of crowds so badly, or who has higher negatives than she does.

Cummings = FAIL.  But hey, Elijah - answer me this:  If the whole proceedings are so deplorable and so reprehensible, what are you doing sitting there?  One would think you wouldn't want your name associated with such a despicable affair.  What's that you say?  To try to protect Ms. Clinton? To deflect the issues and obstruct the investigation?  Yeah, I kinda thought so.  It might have been something you said, you exemplary patriot, you.