The House Republican leadership lacks the guts but has too many smarts to pursue impeachment, so it settles on the hypocrisy of a lawsuit charging that "On matters ranging from health care and energy to foreign policy and education, President Obama has repeatedly run an end-around on the American people and their elected legislators, straining the boundaries of the solemn oath he took on Inauguration Day."
I don't follow sports, for which I compensate by ogling with awe the rah, rah, sis-boom-bah of cheap partisanship and hardcore base arousal. Bless the GOP, it positively surfeits the mind, as well as the imagination.
The president, moans Mr. Boehner, is defying the people and their elected representatives on all manner of pressing issues, which is offensive to his "solemn oath" of office. This was undoubtedly composed with great jocularity by the leadership's staff. The last time the Republican House roused itself from overpaid slumber was to shut down the government for utterly unintelligible reasons. Since then, on matters ranging from health care to education, it can't be bothered. It has money to raise, reelections to win and a base to spoon-feed--with a shovel--no-standing lawsuits. Benghazi wasn't enough.
It is, however, the president who's straining the solemnity of his office.
World Cup games. Who needs them? One can always look to Republicans for all of one's entertainment needs.
They can't really go after him for utilizing executive orders. After all, he has issued fewer than just about any president since the 1920s. Therefore, they would have to sue him for issuing very specific executive orders, and they have been unable, so far, to figure out which ones they want to go after him on.
Just about all of his are things the general public approves of, so no matter what, they are then putting themselves against the general public.
This is another one of those things that will be out there for awhile and then slowly disappear.
Posted by: japa21 | June 26, 2014 at 10:24 AM
Great tastelessness, less fulfilling.
Posted by: Peter G | June 26, 2014 at 12:37 PM