Posted on 07/09/2014 4:13:03 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I seriously doubt that even after the election there will be enough Senate votes to remove Obama from office. The Constitution requires a 2/3 majority of the Senate to convict on articles of impeachment and remove the President. While a GOP majority in the Senate is likely, a 2/3 majority is certainly not going to happen.
It’s not a constitutional option.
If Boehner think the president has acted in violation of the constitution, then his obligation is to bring up articles of impeachment.
A lawsuit is a stupid idea. It’s just Kabuki theatre. It’s designed to just mollify the masses. You can’t get a lawsuit through the court system before Obama completes his fourth term. It has to go to trial and then through the appeals process. It could take 10 years. And what will the court order him to do? Will Obama obey a court order? Has he complied with any subpoenas lately?
Fool’s errand.
Just impeach the Bastard. That what the Constitution calls for. That is what is needed now.
Yup. Pedestrian Parliamentary Move. Boehner's staff has been busy. This is a true crisis. Why the GOP might take the House and Senate, giving them vast governmental responsibilities!
Bad. That will take time away from the GOPe's true work of protecting their "clients" from government agencies. Might even force them to possibly, potentially, maybe perhaps looking at or ... god forbid ... confronting one, could be even two, of the structural constitutional issues that are strangling the Republic.
A Republican majority makes more work for the Democrats, too. They have to figure out better ways to blackmail the GOP into doing what they want. But, having you-know-who in the WH, means they still control the swag.
Now, if only we could get more of "our" people off the couch and to the polls....
There ya go. Johnny the Drunk will do nothing but posture on this. He is as worthless as tits on a boar hog.
I have no doubt that if a Republican Administration acted as lawlessly as has Obama on a range of issues, leftist advocacy groups would have raced to court, activist judges would accept the suits and issue injunctions at warp speed, and the hapless Republican Administration, deferring to legal process, would find itself stalled for years while the challenges worked their way through the courts.
So what we have here is, once again, one of those maddening asymmetries that is poisoning our politics. A Democratic Administration acts lawlessly, judges bend over backwards to invent reasons to lock plaintiffs out of court, and the Administration systematically slow walks everything that does make it into court.
“... the lawsuit is not an isolated political dispute, but a representation by one of the two chambers of the legislative branch that the institution believes its rights have been violated.”
The Congress does not have Constitutional rights. The Congress has powers, duties, authorities and privileges delegated to it by the people and the States through the U.S. Constitution.
The people have a right to seek a redress of grievances in the District Court pursuant to the First Amendment. The U.S. Congress does not have First Amendment rights. The U.S. Congress has the Speech and Debate Clause, (Article I, Section 6, Clause 1).
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