"Criminalizing Her Presidency Even if Her Administration Is Somehow as Pure as Driven Snow"

"Ryan has every incentive to support Chaffetz's star-chamber strategy and no leeway whatsoever to rein it in. Indeed, Ryan is already praising Chaffetz. Ryan’s office told Weigel that he 'supports [Oversight’s] investigative efforts following where the evidence leads.'

"The constant churn of scandals will keep the Republican base in a state of perpetual frenzy at the administration's perfidy, some of which will redound back at the Republican leadership. However far Republicans go, conservatives will be furious they haven't gone further."

Jonathan Chait at New York describes how Congressional Republicans plan to continue their obstruction of Democratic presidents.