now pick up a special buy lithium ion drill kit for just $79. let's get it out of the way first. it is totally conceivable the main political impact of all the controversies that have been in the air for the last week trying to avoid using the word scandal here that the main political impact would be to fire up the conservative base and to boost gop turnout in next year's mid terms. it is also possible that -- as we just heard alan abramowitz argue, none of it will add up to anything. electoral impact in 2014. we had a gazillion game changers, awful term again in last year's campaign. you none of them changed anything. maybe we will end up looking back at scandal week 2013 the same way. there's also another possibility. it is one that republican leaders are clearly aware of and scared of. possibility that their base will get too carried away with scandal fever, that the party will be forced to spend the next 18 months treating benghazi or the irs story or both as the top