Just because they are attempting to sue the president rather than to impeach and convict him, doesn’t make it any less crazy or any more popular.
Starting next week, House Republicans will launch a highly visible—and likely tumultuous—three-week process of bringing to the floor legislation to authorize their promised lawsuit against President Obama over his use of executive actions.
“In theory, you could report out a resolution tomorrow and vote on it,” said a House GOP aide on Tuesday. “But that is not the approach [the leaders] want to take.”
Rather, the aim is to display—if not actually engage in—a more deliberative process, even if amid controversy. This drawn-out script builds toward a potentially dramatic floor vote held just days, or even hours, before the House adjourns on July 31 for its August-long summer break.
It will all start playing out when a panel of experts is called to testify next week on issues surrounding such litigation and to answer members’ questions during a hearing of the House Rules Committee.
The resolution to authorize the legal action will then be formally written, or marked up, by the committee during a hearing the following week. The floor vote on the legislation will follow the week after that, in the days before the break.
So, 2014 is basically a replay of 1998, except there is no stained black blue dress. It appears that six years is the limit Republicans can take of a Democratic president. After that, their lies circle back around and eat their brains.
Boehner should give Gingrich a call and ask him how it all worked out for him in the end.
