Boehner’s Pointless Plan to Sue Obama for Abuse of Presidential Power

Political Kryptonite ^ | June 26, 2014 | Fred Dardick

[FredDardick]

After years of sitting on the sidelines while President Obama has run roughshod over our constitutional form of government, the one that used to employ checks and balances to prevent an overreaching executive branch, Speaker of the House John Boehner is planning on taking Obama to court for abuse of presidential power. But rather than nailing Obama on something specific, like the blossoming IRS scandal or sending high powered weapons over the border during Fast and Furious, Boehner is going to sue Obama for crimes ranging “from health care and energy to foreign policy and education”. The only thing missing from the complaint is Boehner whining that Obama only invited him once to go golfing.

Broad based philosophical debate over the reach of executive powers seems a rather pointless exercise in court. What does Boehner expect to happen? Federal judges pouring over each and every single action by the federal government over the past six years? It would literally take forever.

There are other ways to curb Obama’s lawlessness. The first step is to address to root cause of the problem – the lack of fear by government officials of going to jail for breaking the law. With the possible exception of hardcore Obamabots, not many question that Obama has practically written a roadmap for executive branch malfeasance. Sad thing is it’s outrageously simple: a compliant Attorney General who will never, ever under any circumstances appoint a special counsel.

Without any fear of prosecution, Obama and the rest of the liberal minions in government can pretty much do whatever they please – lie to investigators, lie to Congress, lose emails, write new laws, make up healthcare legislation, send arms to Al Qaeda, throw open the borders, murder Americans abroad, disenfranchise military voters, illegally fire inspector generals, defraud GM bond holders, intimidate abortion protestors, persecute Christians, betray America’s allies, and on and on. I literally got dozens more from where that came from.

Boehner has ignored the biggest lever influencing government policy that he has – the power of the purse. Boehner could compel Obama to respond to scandals, rather than getting run over by them, by simply refusing to fund the parts of government that are blatantly illegal.

Like Obama, Richard Nixon wasn’t keen on having a special prosecutors poking around his affairs. But rather than whine about it in court, the U.S. Senate refused to confirm Nixon’s appointment of Elliot Richardson as Attorney General until he agreed to authorize a special prosecutor. Nixon eventually caved to the Senate’s demand and the rest is history.

The house should put an immediate hold on funding for the Justice Department, EPA, IRS and any other out of control government agency until Obama agrees to appoint special counsels to investigate executive branch wrongdoing. Republicans will no doubt get excoriated for taking a stand against Obama, but at least that would be better than getting laughed at in the press for a pointless lawsuit that will likely accomplish nothing.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Boehner’s Pointless Plan to Sue Obama for Abuse of Presidential Power

Weeper of the House and Chief 0bama Butt Boy, John Boehner, has been forced to finally take action for the blatant treason committed by Hussein 0bama. So after five years he came up with a plan (most likely drawn on a bar napkin) to toss it to the courts where a crooked dem appointed judge will let it languish and then toss it back with no action. All this instead of proceeding with IMPEACHMENT as prescribed in The Constitution!

[Cyclone59]

I view this feeble action in line with the “sternly worded letter” that Obama sent to North Korea in regard to their nuclear missile testing.

[hummingbird]

Bromance.