Yay?
The House voted mostly along party lines Wednesday to authorize suing Barack Obama, which Republicans called a principled move to rein in an increasingly lawless president and Democrats and the White House dismissed as a taxpayer-financed political stunt.
The resolution adopted 225-201 would authorize a lawsuit against the president over his implementation of the [Una]ffordable Care[-Less] Act, with five Republicans joining all the Democrats in opposition — Paul Broun of Georgia, Steve Stockman of Texas, Scott Garrett of New Jersey, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Walter B. Jones of North Carolina.
GOP leaders plan to sue over his decision to delay the employer mandate without authorization from Congress.
A toothless act of institutional impotence, far more symbolic as that than as a rebuke of The One. But then, so would be an impeachment inquiry. The lawsuit simply does not have the backfire potential, which is why the White House has been working overtime to lump it in with the notion of impeachment as a frantic means of rousing the Donks' disgruntled nutroot base in the face of the onrushing electoral cataclysm bearing down upon Democrats just 97 days from now.
The question will be what House 'Pubbies do after their compatriots on the other side of the Capitol retake the Senate. That would be the best time to move forward with impeachment, with the coast clear of immediate PR implications. Oh, sure, O would be just as irremovable, and the case for impeachment no less unmakeable to the stuporous, impenetrably ignorant citizenry, no matter what Andy McCarthy may believe, all of which is why the White House is all but begging Speaker Boehner to pull the "I" trigger, but if House Republicans are ever going to try, after November 4th would be the time to do so.
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