The Coming Obama Wars

As the new GOP House leaders prepare to probe the White House, ex-conservative attack agent David Brock offers lessons from the Clinton era—and why this time will be much worse.

In recent weeks I’ve been asked what President Obama can expect from GOP investigators now that Republicans control the House. I should know. The last time this happened, after the 1994 midterms, I was a right-wing ring-leader of the anti-Clinton movement.

My answer: this go-around will be much worse. The blow of the coming investigations and accompanying vitriol will be faster, harder, and the political devastation more acutely and widely felt in the Democratic Party than the impeachment of President Clinton.