http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/03/1318195/-The-law-President-Obama-did-not-faithfully-execute?detail=email
With their 225 votes to sue President Obama, House Republicans provided one of the most ironic spectacles in recent U.S. political history.
After waves of op-eds by Speaker John Boehner (here and here) and his legal puppet master David Rivkin (here and here) declared Obama guilty of almost every sin in the book, the House resolution ultimately focused on the president's delayed implementation of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate.
It's not just that government wasn't ready to implement the requirement for business insurance coverage for 2014 (a requirement Boehner and his Republican allies opposed), but that in 2006 President George W. Bush similarly pushed back the enrollment deadline for his Medicare Part D prescription drug program.
If congressional Republicans were so concerned about executive branch lawlessness, they could have sued or sought the impeachment of President Bush for his illicit program of domestic surveillance over which his entire Justice Department leadership team threatened to resign in March 2004. And compared to his recent predecessors, President Obama has been historically restrained in his use of executive orders.
Nevertheless, House Republicans are proceeding with their impeachment foreplay for the GOP base. On Thursday, Speaker Boehner explained why:
"This isn't about Republicans or Democrats. It's about defending the Constitution we swore an oath to. Are you willing to let any president choose what laws to execute and what laws to change?"
we need to find a way to expose the republican base to the other side of the page and a few ion this side as well. as long as they refuse to except truth over hateful party rhetoric we are destined to fall from this self imposed pedestal they seem to continue to perpetrate on the world and us, we are not all the things they claim if we were there would not be this recovery, voter suppression, letting Americans starve and die by not extending unemployment trying to deny health care, refusal to do their jobs understand they are not just denying the Pres. they are deny us all they do is only harmful to "WE THE PEOPLE" they have jobs that they don't do and refuse you one you would do.
recognize both sides are in the crosshairs those on the right who cheer every time their politicians reject Pres. or his bills they are rejecting you. look back at Bush years we were losing 750,000 jobs a month we had nothing because they served those with it that don't want to share it. now is the time to answer Reagan's question, "are you better off than you were 6 years ago"? those who said no your time is coming 200,000 plus a month job growth don't vote for republicans and it will triple.
"This isn't about Republicans or Democrats. It's about defending the Constitution we swore an oath to. Are you willing to let any president choose what laws to execute and what laws to change?"
Of course, Boehner was more than willing when Republican George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office.
But the ironies of the House lawsuit don't end there. After all, there is a body of U.S. and international law that Barack Obama refused to faithfully execute as president of the United States. Under our laws, torture isn't just a crime; the United States is legally obligated to prosecute its perpetrators. And despite the confessions of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, that is precisely what President Obama refused to do.
I think he wanted to help Americans not prosecute BUSH/CHEYNEY but now they really won't allow him to do that the rest of his time, if he does on his own they will wreck his legacy, even if he succeeds. those who support them are responsible by excepting their disregard for law, morality and humanity, that blindness will come to light once they find out they are in the same barrel as the rest of us.
