The Real Scandal

Bill Kristol gets it right with his thoughts on seeing the Obama Adminsitration's scandals in their proper context and what Republicans should be doing in the mean time:

Obama’s scandals are damaging to the country. Congress should do its duty in getting to the bottom of them, and if the scandals weaken Obama’s ability to push through bad legislation, conservatives have no obligation to look that gift horse in the mouth. But Obama’s liberal policies are more dangerous than his managerial scandals. 

That’s why making the substantive case against the Obama administration’s policies remains job one for an opposition that hopes to persuade the American people that it deserves to govern. So the key task is to demonstrate how Obama’s policies are failing, to explain why they’re destructive to the country, and to elucidate why conservative policies have worked in the past and how they can be updated to shape a better future. 

This isn’t that hard. But it’s easy to be distracted by the scandal of the day. The real scandal, though, is the Obama administration, whose purposes and policies exemplify a liberalism that degrades popular self-government and embraces American decline.

I think it's lazy for Republicans to sit back and talk of impeachment (at least as the evidence stands currently) or see how many times they can link Obama to Richard Nixon in a press conference.  This opening should not be wasted.