Anyone as ineffective as Issa in a private company would have been fired a long time ago.
The Republicans are a joke. They wait long enough into the second term so that the Administration can play out the clock so justice cannot not be applied to the guilty.
The Republicans are just trying to build up some street cred so they can get enough gullible voters to keep them in power in the House and also take the Senate.
As it has been said by others, the Democrats are the agenda setters and the Republicans are the placeholders. They are Democrat-lite all the way.