Hey GOP. Why not just cut to the chase? Sue Obama for being President. That's the point, no?

[pinto]

All that election stuff is besides the point in your playbook.

Please proceed.

[Matrosov]

1. Conservative desperation

It's a sign of desperation from conservatives. This and the impeachment talk, the latter being especially amusing, now that they are ignoring their own previous statements on the possibility of impeachment proceedings and are claiming it's a "Democratic scam."

There aren't any major political victories on the horizon for them, so this is their way at getting back at President Obama.

[enid602]

2. more like . .

Being black while prez.

[samsingh]

3. well stated

[savalez]

4. Good article on this

Of course, this lawsuit isn’t really about the law, it’s about politics. On one level it is the latest round in the disputes that have existed between President Obama and House Republicans since the 2010 elections as well as further ammunition for the GOP in their ongoing argument that the President has exceeded his authority on numerous occasions, although it is striking that the House is not relying on any of those other alleged usurpations in its proposed Complaint. In that respect, the lawsuit is aimed not at winning some objective in Court but at motivating the Republican base to come to the polls in the upcoming midterm elections in the hope that this will be enough to give the GOP the edge it would need to capture control of the Senate. Finally, as many political pundits have observed, it is rather obvious that a primary motivation for the House Leadership in proposing this lawsuit is to placate the Tea Party wing of the GOP and the House GOP Caucus, and to tamp down the impeachment talk that continues to percolate in the Republican Party no matter how much its leaders try to deny that it exists. It is, in other words, a political stunt.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/house-votes-to-authorize-utterly-pointless-lawsuit-against-president-obama/

[blkmusclmachine]

5. The GOP hates EVERYBODY*

*Except extremely wealthy, White, old, hard-right, Christian-Conservative men.