With increasing probability, the Obama administration may be regarded by historians as one of the most scandal-plagued since Harding’s administration.

Bush? Well, the Left still harangues him on the WMD fiasco, even though nearly everyone thought they existed—until we went in there and couldn’t find them. Like that’s a bad thing. But the Left changed course and decided to blame the President for scaring them. Really, it was like a kid who gets mad because you told a really good ghost story.

Nixon’s scandal was particularly bad, but outside of that and some requests to bring the FBI down on political opponents, he was pretty tidy in his scandals. Ditto for Bill Clinton, who had the Whitewater affair, as well as numerous other affairs that distracted us for a bit. All in all, not too bad.

But historians are about to document a rash of Obama scandals, any one of which could tarnish a presidency:

• Fast and Furious is by far the most sickening, and if you are not aware of this one—despite the best work of the media censors—then you aren’t looking.
• Solyndra, and subsequent taxpayer-funded giveaways to companies with weak business plans, have literally wasted over a billion dollars and counting. All because the President wanted to prove a political point with environmentalists.
• The way ObamaCare was incorrectly rammed through Congress. That’s a whole book right there for someone to write.
• Van Jones, and the other dangerous Leftist radicals, who not only had the President’s ear but actually had unelected government positions of great influence.
• Pigford, which now appears to have been a reparations stunt from the beginning.
• The Black Panthers fiasco, and related incidents in which Attorney General Holder refused to prosecute any largely black organization, even when they were handing him evidence.

Sure, here are numerous other things that deserved to be investigated, but every presidency is asked “What did he know and when did he know it? We, however, are more interested in things that show a clear abuse of power.

Historians have their work cut out for them; normally, there would be tons of news stories for them to sift through, but as you know, there aren’t. Maybe a question needs to be asked about that by history.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.