One of the most frustrating things about conservative activism in the age of Obama is the obsession with the revelation that’s always just over the horizon. In other words, there is a conviction that the bad facts we know can’t be half as bad as the bad facts that we haven’t yet discovered. I’ve written about this before, but the examples are legion. The Tea Party scandal was outrageous on its own terms. The IRS systematically targeted conservative groups and individuals for extraordinary scrutiny, subjecting them to searching inquiries merely because they were exercising their core First Amendment rights to advocate for limited, constitutional government. But to some, the actual facts became far less important than the desperate quest to find some way, any way, to tie it all right back to the Oval Office.

The Benghazi debacle should have disqualified Hillary Clinton from the presidency. There is abundant evidence that her State Department reduced security in a time of heightened risk, and then — after the undermanned outpost was overwhelmed — she participated in the administration’s shameful campaign of deception and obfuscation. And all this took place against the backdrop of the general collapse of the Libya policy she championed. Her signature foreign policy effort was and is an abysmal failure. But that’s not enough. Instead, it’s not a “real” scandal until — what? — we find evidence that Hillary and Obama were laughing and eating lobster while Americans fought and died on foreign soil?