Agreed. We did elect and then re-elected President Obama.

I agree. Sad to see in the article that the AP scandal will be far more of an impact than the act of treason that can be argued in the Benghazi cover up.

Wait! I thought that it was all Bush's fault.

How far he gets with this request will help us determine just how far gone Europe really is.

EXACTLY what I was thinking.

Without the U.S. Senate, I doubt it, although it would be better for our country.

What concerns me here is that President Obama is not a moderate. He may become desperate. Desperate people make desperate moves. And not being moderate implies that his moves could be much more extreme than we expect.

A significant difference is that in 1973, Democrats controlled both the U.S. House and the Senate. Today, Republicans control only the house. Without the Senate, I really doubt anything similar will result, despite the fact that Benghazi was one heck of a lot more dangerous to our country than Watergate.

Same tactics. Stall until the next news cycle, or the one after that. "A week went by, now it's July." (Frank Zappa) Bureaucrats are not known for risk taking. These so-called 'minor' bureaucrats did nothing without approval from above.

Good article. Thanks. It is human nature. We are going the way of the Romans, although technology allows us a greater degree of comfort. Take abortion. The technology did not exist to get rid of unwanted babies without killing the mother, so they "left them on the mountainside". Our current President is a classic example of a society who has moved in this direction. We even re-elected him!