How Should Obama Deal With the AP Scandal?

That's easy -- he should send to Congress an exact copy of the bill he co-sponsored back in 2007 which would have required federal court approval before reporters’ phone records could be subpoenaed:

[Darrell] Issa was one of 21 House members who opposed the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007, a measure that would have forbidden federal investigators from compelling journalists to give evidence without first obtaining a court order. The bill included a section that specifically forbid subpoenaing journalists’ phone records from “communication service providers” to the same extent that the law protected the journalists themselves.

This is actually a no-brainer for Obama. The Republicans -- including Darrell Issa -- are attacking Obama on this AP deal as we speak, so you can imagine how pissed off Issa and other Republicans would be if Obama sent Congress this bill.  The GOP successfully filibustered it in the Senate back in 2007, but there is no way in hell they could pull that crap again under these circumstances. They'd have to change their vote, or look like complete hypocrites. Talk about putting the turd in the other guys' pocket.

The most hilarious part is that if they voted "yes" on such legislation, they'd be handing Obama a political victory in that they would actually be voting for something that Obama supports, which is something they just haven't been able to do in the last four years. They'd probably accuse Obama of engaging in political opportunism, but that would be a hard sell given that, as noted above, Obama co-sponsored the exact same legislation in 2007.