… It’s 1998, and House Republicans have moved to charge President Bill Clinton with an impeachable high crime for lying about sex.
Parties that don’t control the White House invariably gain in midterm elections. But the anti-Clinton drive energized Democrats. That year, Republicans failed to gain congressional seats in a midterm for the first time since 1934 and for the first time in a president’s second term since 1822.
In 2014, the Republicans risk a smaller-scale fiasco with the creation of a special committee to investigate the 2012 tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, were killed. CONT.
Al Hunt, Bloomberg