Thomas Lifson recently gave compelling reasons why House Democrats run grave political risks if they boycott a select committee to investigate Benghazi.   Congressional Democrats, like the establishment leftist media, have been so fawning and flaccid in dealing with Obama that what few microns of credibility they may have had with conservatives and other normal people may soon blink out of existence. Parallel to the political punishments waiting for these folks is a constitutional crisis that goes to the very heart of our system.  Modern governments – those that are truly “governments” and not party-driven totalitarianism like Bolshevik Russia or Nazi Germany – are systems of accountability and resistance.  Our constitutional framework, for example, provides a powerful restraint on national government by investing great power in state governments – much more than most nations.  Switzerland, Canada, Germany, and Australia do...(Read Full Article)