All right, let me see if I have this straight . . .
President Obama was asked to amend the health care law's requirement involving businesses by waiving it for a year. Republicans trying to repeal the law wanted at least that from him. He acquiesced, delaying the requirements until 2015 by executive order. Now he's being sued by the GOP-majority House for sidestepping the law, which Republicans want to repeal anyway.
In other words, House Speaker John Boehner is filing this suit on behalf of the full House of Representatives - over the objections of House Democrats, who don't want have anything to do with such a lawsuit, and five Republicans, who opposed the suit not because they thought it was frivolous but because they don't think it goes far enough - and the President is being sued for giving GOP-friendly interests what they wanted.
If President Obama tries to handle by the crisis of Central American children entering the country illegally via Mexico - an issue the Republicans have proven to be incapable of handling even as a law enforcement, rather than a humanitarian issue - the Republican House will impeach him for overstepping his authority with executive orders. On the other hand, they're demanding that they do something about the border crisis by . . . executive order.
Ri-i-i-i-i-ght . . .
The President thinks he can score political points for the Democrats in the congressional midterms by exposing the Republicans as a party in disarray that can't do anything. Oh no, he won't. The President's popularity remains stuck in the low forties, it's even lower in states where Democratic Senate incumbents and challengers are trying to get traction in this year's U.S. Senate races, and the House is so gerrymandered in favor of the GOP that the Democrats don't have a realistic shot of regaining the majority in that chamber or even expanding their minority until after the 2020 census. And maybe not even then. The Republicans are very well aware of what they're doing as they pull every trick in the book to ensure that they keep the House, regain ,the Senate, and eventually take the Presidency, subsequently consolidating their power and staying in control of Washington until . . . the end of time.
Which could be within the next decade.
If Boehner can sue the President over executive orders, can the American people sue him for congressional disorder?
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