New Republic works overtime to keep conservatives splintered and riled up against one another.
Issa ran the tables against a stone wall from the beginning, stuck chairing an ordinary committee with no teeth, no enforcement mechanism, no political clout and left with issuing his toothless subpoenas, which served the delighted administration with an opportunity to blow those off too, along with humiliating Issa personally.
No Special Prosecutor, and this is what you get. Five different committees were strategically used to drag this out nearer to election cycles.
A Special Committee has more teeth, tools and track talent, but still, even impeachment is unlikely and the Reid senate removes, nor even punishes, anyone.
Within the confines of Republican strategy to drag this out and within the limits of an ordinary committee, Issa met the goal. Imho.
Where the hell did Patrick Fitzgerald come from...the Scooter Libby prosecutor?
(or was it his friend Gerald Fitzpatrick?)