[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The difference there is that Levin wasn't taking legal action against these rogue agencies on behalf of CONGRESS. LOL.

I'll have to listen to him again, but can't they do both?

As far as I can tell, their options are:

1) Hold ineffectual hearings.
2) Take them to court (per Mark. OK, I don't understand how this works.)
3) Appoint a special prosecutor, which Holder will never do.
4) Defund agencies, i.e., resulting in a "scary" gov't shutdown.

It seems like 2 & 4 are the only effective means at their disposal. They're chicken sh--, so they won't do 4. So all that's left is option 2.

[Alberta's Child]

A legislative body like Congress filing a lawsuit against the president is like a corporate board of directors filing a lawsuit against the CEO. Any court that got involved in that process would surely look at the plaintiff and say: "I can't imagine how you useless bastards can even justify your existence!"

You don't sue the renegade CEO. You fire him. And if you are chickensh!t, then you don't belong on the board of directors.

I seem to remember hearing about a case like this in the last few weeks. The first guy on the board of directors to get voted off the board by the shareholders was named Eric Cantor.