The Congress holds two cards to control Obama’s illegal executive orders, the ability to impeach and the ability to control the purse strings.
I may be wrong, but I think only another president could reverse his executive orders. PLEASE, someone tell me there are more remedies. I’m asking here.
It's like modern warfare -- Congress has nuclear options (impeachment and the power of the purse/gov't shutdown), but not very effective smaller options, to fight a lawless president.
As long as the Senate Dems continue to support Obama, it would be difficult to rein him in. I see two reasons for hope though:
1. Democratic Senators, like all politicians, put personal survival above all else. I don't think they want an all-out political war that would drag them down, and they just saw some of their colleagues go down last night.
2. Obama, for all his radicalism, is first and foremost lazy. He's never done a day's work in his life. I'm sure he would like to destroy us and our traditional American values, but not if it requires him actually doing the work. So if the Democratic Sentators won't carry the water for him, he'll settle for more golf.
I think these two factors will lead to a reining in of Obama, but if not, fasten your seat belts.