No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.