During Wednesday’s House committee meeting about whether or not to authorize military action in Syria, Rep. Joe Wilson (R.-S.C.) decided to put on display (Yet again.) the depths to which some Republicans have sunk by taking the opportunity to suggest that the Obama administration delayed taking action on Syria in order to distract from their “scandals”. He ran through the usual litany of things that are in his view Obama’s fault because of course, the House and Senate have nothing to do with what the government does.