Republicans Take Careful Aim At Foot, Blast Away

[babylonsister]

http://prospect.org/article/republicans-take-careful-aim-foot-blast-away

Republicans Take Careful Aim At Foot, Blast Away

Paul Waldman

July 31, 2014

The House voted to sue President Obama, a move that will prove substantively futile and politically disastrous for Republicans.

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The Republican senators and governors running for president in 2016 may not have had to vote on the lawsuit, but they're damn sure going to have to take a position on it—and woe be to those who don't offer their full-throated support. After all, a majority of Republican voters (see here or here) think Obama ought to be impeached, and there's no quicker way to get yourself branded a RINO than wavering in your opposition to the Kenyan socialist usurper tyrant in the Oval Office. Every Republican everywhere is going to have to answer the same question.

And every time they do, Democrats will say, "Instead of trying to help the country, these bozos decided to sue the president."

You can tell that Obama himself is absolutely loving this. "Stop being mad all the time," he said in reference to congressional Republicans in a speech on Wednesday. "Stop just hating all the time. C'mon… I know they're not happy that I'm president but that's okay. I got a couple of years left. C'mon… then you can be mad at the next president." That kind of thing will, of course, make them even madder.

Republicans also may not realize that they've given Obama a terrific incentive to take whatever unilateral action he can on issues like immigration, not only because he can justify it with their inability to address actual problems, but because he knows it will drive them batty, making them even more likely to talk about impeachment and even less likely to look like a party that wants to govern, all of which is good for Democrats.

There may be a conservative somewhere who has objected to this suit, but I haven't come across him or her. I understand that they all believe Obama has gone beyond the limits of executive authority, which is a reasonable position to take. My own belief is that every president pushes against those limits, and the way Obama has done so isn't unusual, and certainly less egregious than the way his predecessor did. But regardless of whether they disagree, you'd think there would be a contingent of sober conservatives saying something like, "While this lawsuit is merited, it's also utterly futile and will only lead to more political damage for a party that has already done itself so much." But I guess not; the prevailing sentiment is that they simply must strike out at Obama, whether it works or not and whatever the cost to themselves.

[hifiguy]

1. The WH should take this as an opportunity

for the POTUS to get heavily involved in the election in a Trumanesque way and blast the living bejesus out of the time-wasting, obstructionist, petty and malevolent morons in the House. He has nothng to lose as his term is done in 2016.

[madokie]

2. Way over here in northeast Oklahoma

It looks to me like the President is playing them for the fools they are.
He is at least a few steps ahead of them and some of them know that and that adds fuel to their fire of hatred. GOPpers are running rampant while the President is calm cool and collected.
Not many people in this world has the self restraint he has shown in the last 5 and a half years. He is amongst the few who do.
History will be very favorable to him and because of the way the pukes have reacted to his being elected will surely ensure that it will be a long time before we have another bigoted white man in the oval office. I won't live to see that day come I'm sure and I plan to live through a few more Presidents.

Its time for a Woman, a Native American and a Hispanic, not necessarily in that order either, to grace our oval office.
The day of the old bigoted misogynistic and racist white man rule is over.

For the record I'm an old white male, with neither a bigoted, misogynistic nor racist bone in my body

I cannot, for the life of me, think of a better person to have put this all to rest than the man who has. Barack Hussein Obama II , President of the United States of America

I love you bro'

[LiberalLoner]

3. +1 awesome post!

[Aristus]

5. +1

[FSogol]

4. K & R. n/t