I fear that the GOP as part of the “good ol’ boys congress club” will have no stomach to sustain their stand, to man up and force barry to do same or impeach him.
Most of them are weak ego-ridden men who never faced a real crisis in their lives and think they are smarter and individually more important than they are. Their power is as a body, not a man. (who was it that said “Gentlemen, we must all hang together, or we shall hang separately”) They are not leaders, they are followers. Followers of nameless advisors, flatterers, straphangers, consultants, “polls” , and frightened angry or stupid constituents.
They make pleasant with and listen respectfully to peers such as Charles Rangel, Maxine Waters, Alcee Hastings, Louise Slaughter Henry Waxman etc etc etc. Men and women who ought to be shunned as stupid, venal hypocrites and mean small people unworthy of office. Even jailed. And everyone knows who.
They prefer to keep their heads down, keep their titles, staff, offices, franked mail, fresh flowers, dining privileges, parking places, VIP travel, cut rate shoe shines and haircuts and think this will pass in 3 years as all presidencies have done in the past.
and this is the GOP
the better of 2 dysfunctional political parties.
I hear you but if Obama cuts out Congress on the debt ceiling he will face the USSC, I am pretty sure about that.
And when and if the USSC rules on Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional power grab, then Congress will need to respond. At that point, the coziness of their settings won’t be so important when they are deluged by constituent phone calls.