Friedman's Secret Service Scapegoat

Thomas Friedman's New York Times column is about the Secret Service scandal. Who does he blame? Not President Obama, who as head of the executive branch is in charge of the agency. Not the secretary of homeland security, the department into which the Secret Service was dumped by the George W. Bush administration. No, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner blames Congress, for going on recess. The one villain named by Mr. Friedman in his column is, wait for it, Eric Cantor, the former House Majority Leader, whose crime, in Mr. Friedman's view, is going to work for a Wall Street firm. Give the Times columnist credit for originality. Who'd have thought there'd be a way to blame the Secret Service scandal on House Republicans?