As the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Congressman Darell Issa squandered precious credibility trying unsuccessfully to pin low-level bureaucratic incompetence in a gun-running operation called “Operation Fast and Furious” on President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. When Issa didn’t like one of Holder’s responses at a hearing, he snapped, “John Mitchell [of Watergate fame] responded that way too.” In what has become a seemingly foreordained moment for Congressional Republicans, Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner told Holder that if he didn’t do what was asked of him, “there is only (one) alternative that Congress has and it is called impeachment.”

Former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith tried to block the confirmation of a DOJ nominee in an effort to extract information that would prove that the Obama Administration had an allegiance to the New Black Panther Party. (The Justice Department had dismissed a Bush-era voter intimidation case against the NBPP where not one voter ever alleged being intimidated.)The Philadelphia Weekly asked Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf why exactly President Obama would want to do any favors for the NBPP, which is so extreme its been condemned by the actual Black Panther Party. Wolf said: “I can’t answer that. That’s what we’re trying to find out.” Incidentally, in 2012 the head of the New Black Panthers wrote that the Democratic Party is the “institutional pimp of Black peoples” and called Obama “a real disappointment.”…

Sen. Rand Paul signed a fundraising letter last week alleging that Obama is helping “anti-American globalists plot against our Constitution.” Rep. Marsha Blackburn made the absurd and unsupportable claim that Kermit Gosnell was “the norm” for abortion clinics.

Note to the GOP: if diabolical is your standard, you better be able to prove it. Good luck with that.