he doesn t just need it to get past the 2014 elections, he wants benghazi to last through 2014. and it s just 2016. through 2016. it occurs to any it s going to be difficult to slow walk benghazi or other things and flip through them in such a deliberate manner as to make them last for that long. you make that point, jonathan, the role that scandal has taken in the vacuum of policy. republican hysteria still exists but increasingly finds its expression not in policy but in a melange of scandal. once ee pit mized by obama care and socialism and grease has taken the form of benghazi and irs and bergdahl. it s also because they got nothing else. right, what i was trying to describe there this larger way in this which policy debate has receded completely from the republican mind. it s the idea that obama is transforming the country and