Thursday, July 31, 2014

In Other News: John Boehner is a little bit pregnant

John Boehner wrote a piece in the US Today that argues for suing the President (LINK).  It is political ass-covering or a stupendous type.
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For those of you NOT in the US, a little background.  This has never happened before.  Congress has never sued the President (which is hard to believe in our sue-happy culture, I know).  The reason is because there is a Constitutional solution.  You see, if you really think the President has committed ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’, he can be impeached.  Which makes this statement of Boehner’s asinine, “We are defending the Constitution.”
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You aren’t defending the Constitution.  You are, in fact, violating the Constitution.  Forget the stupidity of the actual suit, Congress is suing Obama for delaying a mandate for two years.  Forget that Congress is suing Obama because he has issued Executive Orders - at a rate slower than Bush 1, Bush 2, Clinton, Eisenhower and Saint Reagan. 
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Here is the thing, if you REALLY believe that Obama has done something so bad he can be sued, then you should impeach him.  What you are saying is “Obama broke the law, but we don’t feel like following our Constitutional duty to impeach him – because we are chicken-shit cowards.”
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But that really isn’t it, is it Mr. Speaker?  What is really behind this is that the 24 hour news cycle, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and your own House members have let the rhetoric get out of hand.  They have all deluded themselves so much, that they believe the President is impeachment worthy.  And you, politically, know this is a bad move.  So you are trying a political hit job that is a halfway shot.
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Good luck with that.  Your dyed-in-the-red base won’t be appeased, and everyone else can see through this transparent political ploy.
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