[Jim in CT]

Hilary's email dumps included an email from CT Senator Richard Blumenthal. In the email, Blumenthal asks Hilary to make public the photo of Bin Laden's corpse for Congress to see. Blumenthal felt that if Republicans saw that photo, they would be so awestruck but what Obama did (as if he personally jumped off the helicopter) that they would hesitate to object to Obama's debt ceiling proposal.

Here is the text of that email, from Breitbart. You might think that this is an email from Hermann Goering to Josef Goebbels about Adolf Hitler, but sadly, it's not...

“Here are the reasons: Having the members file through (to view the Bin Laden photos) will provide testimony to the President’s feat. They (Republicans) will be not only acknowledging but also enhancing his power. They will in effect become liegemen bowing before him, but not in any way they will resent or will protest.
They will serve as witnesses to the magnitude of what he has done. Each of them will emerge speaking to the national and local press on what they have seen.

Having the whole Congress see the photos would have these likely impacts as well: The far right-wing Tea Party Republicans would by their mere presence admit to the President’s status above them and to his effectiveness.

There would also be a salutary effect at the beginning of the negotiations on the debt ceiling. It would curb the ability of the Republicans to appeal to partisan sentiment and indulge in partisan rhetoric, giving the administration more edge.”

He's not insane. Not even a little bit.