Benghazi was going flat and they need to keep the initiative, dominating the press with scandal

Boehner On IRS: ‘Who’s Going To Jail Over This Scandal?’

I surf Republican sites as much as Democratic ones and the front pages of the red sites are flooded with a vast outpouring of screaming accusations, demands for investigation, and talk of impeachment.

These guys just can’t go a second term with a Democratic president without going into full psychopath mode to ensure nothing useful gets done and the press is constantly dominated, not by news of the president’s initiatives and achievements, but by stories about their accusations and White House scandals.

In the present case, it looks like some folks at the IRS did behave, or misbehave, as alleged.

There’s always that little kernel of truth, you know.

Remember that Clinton did actually perjure himself.

The Republicans did not just make that up.

And he, the Democratic president, was the shameful liar when he insisted, "I did not have sex with that woman."

On the other hand, special IRS scrutiny is something only a professional politician - that is, a profession crook, liar, and tax evader - would treat as so big a deal when directed at political actors for political reasons.

As for the rest of us, do we not consider it an old story when prosecutors, having decided they want to sock it to someone they can't touch for his real misdeeds - or anyway for whatever he actually did to piss them off -, arrange for intensive scrutiny of everything about him, looking for a way to slam the guy?

Remember Al Capone?

Or, for that matter, remember what the Obama administration did to their Benghazi patsy, the guy who made that Mohammed video?

And don’t we in fact hope that each party will make a special effort to hold the other and its partisans to account, convinced as we are that each party will let its own members and partisans slide quite a bit more than we would like?

If a Democratic administration doesn’t closely scrutinize the propriety of tax exemption for right wing groups, who will?

No, probably not the Republicans, I would guess.

And, no, eternal caterwauling and demands for impeachment over relative trivia for the evident purpose of sabotaging a presidency are not what we mean by holding the other party to account.

Sorry, no, that's not it.

By the way, this also contributes wonderfully to right wing, long term, deep propaganda of mistrust and hatred for the federal government, for Big Government, for taxes, for the IRS, for Democrats, for progressivism, and for liberalism.

See the hot topic of "paranoia," for instance, now bruited at NRO in The Corner, at Human Events, and elsewhere.