Coward of the House: How John Boehner's Pathetic Lawsuit Reveals His Weakness

[madokie]

Wimpy 'leader' thinks suing the president will appease his party’s base. The good of the country is another story.

Never underestimate the cynicism of House Speaker John Boehner. The day after he told reporters he opposed the impeachment of President Obama, he announced plans to go ahead with an unprecedented lawsuit, on grounds so puny as to be laughable. The speaker will sue the president, he says, for postponing the imposition of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate for a year and waiving the fine it imposed.

So: After all of Boehner’s huffing and puffing about the president’s lawlessness, after an Op-Ed that claimed Obama had abused his power on “a range of issues, including his health care law, energy regulations, foreign policy and education,” he wants to sue him for not implementing a minor ACA provision Republicans are known to oppose, within a law they want to repeal entirely? And as NBC’s First Read notes, Boehner didn’t advocate suing President Bush in 2006 when he waived penalties for low-income seniors who missed the deadline to sign up for new Medicare prescription benefits.

Clearly Boehner’s silly lawsuit is a sop to his party’s right-wing base. But he’s throwing table scraps while the wingnuts want red meat. The GOP establishment, such as it is, has apparently decided impeachment is a bad political detour for the party. Yet few of the conservative voices now speaking out against impeaching the president have the courage to say: “It’s because he hasn’t done anything that would be grounds for impeachment.” Instead, they focus on the terrible politics for their party in a midterm election year when they’re expected to do well.

Boehner merely said, “I disagree,” when asked about Sarah Palin’s Facebook rant demanding that the House GOP impeach Obama – and then he fleshed out his alternative legal plan. The man who gave us Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain, said Thursday: “There are not the votes here in the United States Senate to impeach the president of the United States and I think that we should focus our attention on winning elections.”

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/coward-house-how-john-boehners-pathetic-lawsuit-reveals-his-weakness

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. and there it is again - check McGramp's last line...

“There are not the votes here in the United States Senate to impeach the president of the United States and I think that we should focus our attention on...

what? doing the work of the country? Passing laws that help the citizens? progress?

Nope. the whole focus is

"winning elections.”

Politics is utterly broken in this country. It is simply 365/24/7 campaigning (esp on the right of course).

[Thinkingabout]

2. The wimpy leader is filing a suit on Obama for delaying the employee mandate, as Speaker of the

House which passed a law and sent it to the Senate doing the same thing, huh, what, is the best Boehner could come up with.

[madokie]

3. I know from my own drunken ass

that this is intoxicated thinking that bone head is engaging in