House GOP File Lawsuit Against Obama

[IDemo]

Source: NBC

House Republicans on Friday filed a long-awaited lawsuit against President Barack Obama for his use of executive actions, nearly four months after the GOP authorized the suit in a strict party-line vote.

The lawsuit accuses the president of abusing his executive authority by unilaterally changing how his signature health care law was implemented. The suit is centered on the White House decision to delay the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act, but it also comes the day after the president took executive action on immigration.

"Time after time, the president has chosen to ignore the will of the American people and re-write federal law on his own without a vote of Congress. That's not the way our system of government was designed to work,” House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement. “If this president can get away with making his own laws, future presidents will have the ability to as well. The House has an obligation to stand up for the Constitution, and that is exactly why we are pursuing this course of action."

House Republicans authorized a bill approving the legal action in a 225-201 vote in July, with no Democratic support.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/house-gop-file-lawsuit-against-obama-n253456

[sammy750]

1. The only abuse is from the GOP.

They should be sue for collecting a salary and doing nothing. They are a fraud to the tax payers. They were elected to work for the people, instead it vacation and recess most of the year. The GOP is the big FRAUD.
We must wonder about those that elect them. This nation must be full of screwed up people

[dotymed]

32. Agreed Sammy.

Sadly this is true with parties to some degree.It is another sickening example of our plutocracy.
Their salaries, compared to those of their (supposed) constituents is outrageous.
I do not know any average Americans with "jobs" like theirs. The perks, benefits, vacations, huge bribes (for most) are not even considered as a part of their income.
It is insane that these people are expected to represent us. In the last few decades the window dressing has been stripped,
Americans KNOW the gross truth that is politics and how our Constitution has become "just a damned piece of paper" that has not been a blueprint for America for many years, yet we are still complacent and even act like "that's life."
We have become the "BIZZARO WORLD", yet we do nothing to force change.
I know it will not happen because TPTB will act, unlike us but IF Bernie Sanders becomes our President...We all know (just by looking at his 30+ years of voting for average Americans to be treated fairly) that Bernie is "us." What a game changer he would be.

[heaven05]

2. BONER you POS

drunken, useless clown. I hope, in the next two years, Obama strokes all these mofo's out.

[liberal N proud]

3. The headlines should read: A Do Nothing Congress Sues a President to Does Something!

They basically are suing him because something got accomplished in Washinton.

[Cha]

4. Boner is Lying his damn head off again and the US zombie media are the stenographers.

[watoos]

29. They are much more than stenoghraphers

they are complicit.

[landolfi]

5. With this Supreme Court

it might actually go somewhere! After all, those lackeys are for sale to the highest bidder. What a fucking waste of time. Another Teabagger grandstand, but maybe it will plumb the depths of the judicial depravity.

[still_one]

7. I don't think so. The ACA was existing law, and he made certain changes through executive order.

This is NOT a precedent, all the presidents have been doing it for some time.

[still_one]

6. Gee, I guess all those other executive orders from bush and reagan to tweak and change various things

weren't a problem, but suddenly it is a problem?

I wonder why that is?

[Botany]

8. Suing the Chief Executive for using executive actions

[George II]

9. He's such a little crybaby - literally AND figuratively!

He didn't get his way so now he's pouting and going down his list of things Obama did (almost universally GOOD for the country and LEGALLY!)

Yeah, they really want to "work together" and do their job. Bull!

I see a steady string of lawsuits and bad legislation passed, and a record number of vetoes for the next two years.

[samsingh]

10. these are the repug morons that go on to complain about frivilous lawsuits

[noiretextatique]

22. wasting time and money

nothing more.

[cilla4progress]

26. Touche!

Bring it on --

The only national political leader with any maturity, compassion for the American people, and commonsense, much less brains, would seem to be our Pres.

Oh, there are a few in Congress. My own Sen. Patty Murray, and Jim McDermott, congressman from the west side of the state.

But few and far between!

[unblock]

11. so (a) he acknowledged that the aca is the "will of the people" and (b) he wants to raise taxes.

[George II]

12. Before whining about executive orders, maybe they should look at history!

Here's a list of Presidents and their Executive Orders by average/year (descending, and sorry for the formatting).

Repeats are for two-term presidents:

Gerald R. Ford 68.98
Dwight D. Eisenhower 66.50
Richard Nixon 63.87
Lyndon B. Johnson 62.86
Richard Nixon 61.75
Dwight D. Eisenhower 54.50
Ronald Reagan 53.25
William J. Clinton 50.00
George W. Bush 43.25
Ronald Reagan 42.00
George Bush 41.50
William J. Clinton 41.00
William McKinley 40.84
Barack Obama 36.75
Benjamin Harrison 35.75
Grover Cleveland - II 35.00
George W. Bush 29.50
Grover Cleveland - I 28.25
Chester Arthur 27.75
Ulysses S. Grant 27.13
Barack Obama 26.29

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. The past doesn't exist for them.

[ReRe]

13. Why? Why am I not worried about anything that...

... comes out of the orange man's mouth? Or that comes out of ANY Republican's mouth? Ha! Hey Orange Man: No one cares about your hateful "views." You can get on your M$M and scream it to the world, but no one is listening! People have the power to shut you up. All they have to do is grab that remote and ZAP, you're gone!

ZAP it. ZAP it good!

[freebrew]

14. The stupid just keeps getting bigger...nt

[elleng]

15. As it's a matter of public record,

its not too much to ask nbc and whomever else reports on this to provide some text from the lawsuit. Such complaints are easy to decipher, even for those who don't spend their lives on discovering and reporting FACTS!

[meow2u3]

16. meow2u3 to GOP: Good luck finding a judge who will buy your line of crap

The GOP will probably have to pay off a judge who'll rule in their favor because, on the merits of this case, they don't have a leg to stand on.

[Iliyah]

17. It will get much worst. The GOP don't give a rats ass about America nor her people.

The next GOP congress will be nightmares on super steroids. Corporate media will back them 24/7.

[C Moon]

18. Of late, when Boehner speaks, it's so obvious he's coached by the likes of the Koch Brothers.

I could not live like that.
What an underhanded, lying, two-faced creep.

[freshwest]

34. This is how Boehner lives with it:

[C Moon]

35. Ha! Probably true. On the other hand, he probably doesn't give a flying hoot.

[City Lights]

19. They are fucking clowns.

Not even a teeny tiny bit interested in governing. They are hypocrites of the highest order. Fuck every last one of them, up, down, and sideways.

[OldRedneck]

20. This is for Boehner

http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. The Right is already squawking, "bringing a lawsuit to an impeachment" like good little parrots.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. So Bush could lie us into war

and use executive signing statements, and torture and rendition,
and Cheney's SECRET energy task force,

but Obama has done something impeachable?

Republicans' sense of entitlement and overreach is gargantuan

This won't stand up to public opinion or history

[angrychair]

25. not worth the paper its written on

It will never leave the judge's chamber. File 13. No judge is going to touch a pissing contest between the legislative and executive branches.

[redstatebluegirl]

27. Emperor and Imperial Presidency is just code for "uppity"

they and their base what that Black man out of their "White House". Orange man is getting on my last nerve, plus he looked drunk this morning on tv.

[lark]

28. They really piss me off.

Is there any limit to the amount of money these asshole Repugs will spend to try and hurt the presidency? There is no, zero, sense of porportion or history. Things Raygun and BFEE did with not even a whiff of dissent from the party is totally illegal in their eyes if Obama does it. They talk about the budget, but that's just a smoke screen. They totally don't give a damn about the country's economy, do absolutely nothing to help it and everything possible to drive us over a cliff, then preach about fiscal responsibility. Ha! They are the party of fiscal irresponsibility and are totally sickening.

[Monk06]

30. This is how they are going to waste the Senate majority for the next two years. They can't help

themselves. Everything is done with an eye on the next election with these morons. Obama will not see a single bill come up for his signature or veto.

[muntrv]

31. Suing him for implementing a law passed by Congress. Yeah that makes sense

in dumbfuckistan!

[Raul Hernandez]

33. The President should issue an Executive Order withholding ALL Republican salaries

until their fat asses get back to work for more than 114 planned days, and institute a minimum wage salary with NO benefits to all the Republicans Senators and Congressidiots.

[blkmusclmachine]

36. More kabuki theater for the unwashed masses.

Meanwhile, Boner and Obama chum it up on Martha Vineyard's golf course.