, Columnist
The Obama Scandal Republicans Are Ignoring
Sexual assaults in the military deserve more attention from Republicans, Democrats and the press.
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If I were an ambitious Republican in Congress, I would focus on the one truly egregious scandal of President Barack Obama's administration.
It's not the White House response to the attack in Benghazi, Libya. The smart money is already fleeing that one. It's not the Internal Revenue Service episode, either. The IRS went off the rails, and Republicans will get political mileage from it. But the notion that White House political staff would direct IRS employees to crack down on citizen Tea Party groups is more than dubious. Democrats have had no greater allies in securing their Senate majority or in undermining Republican credibility by transforming the House of Representatives into bedlam.