Can POTUS Sue Congress when they clearly neglect their duties?

[cloudythescribbler]

77. If only it were so -- due time for the GOP was more than 20 years ago

It seems to me that an already lousy Reaganite party (the repukes) triggered their entitlement to negative Karma when they systematically blocked (overly, in my view) moderate Bill Clinton's every little mild reform with a solid wall of filibusters. This unprecedented (at that time) systematic filibuster made a mockery of the Constitutional scheme and the Democrats then as since only play nerfball with those to their right. Bringing a nerfball to a gunfight resulted not in the cataclysmic losses in 94 that they had richly earned, but control of both Houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. This was not out of popular enthusiasm for the tactic as (a) disgust by Democrats with the nothing happening and failure to respond a la Truman and (b) the radical shift rightward in the electorate that typically takes place in non-presidential year Congressional elections.

There was also the government shutdowns, the ridiculous investigations, the impeachment, and so on and so forth -- with the Democrats responding weakly as always. David Brock, who many fellow Bernie supporters are castigating as he now runs interference for Hillary in the primary campaign, quite courageously came out in "Blinded By The Right" and showed how things were from the inside, including the insane almost directionless -- presaging Trumpism -- vein-popping anger at Clinton. There is much said that Obama is being uniquely disrespected because of his race, which surely is not without some truth, but really the idiocy of the GOP during the last 7+ years is only a continuation and modest amplification of what they did and completely got away with in the 90s (not to overlook stealing the 2000 presidential election).

Under Obama the story is all-too-familiar, now with the senate refusing even to hold hearings for an ultra-moderate nominee and the rise of Donald Trump. The Karma is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overdue, and even if Trump gets buried in a landslide, weakened further by some sort of breakaway rightwing "conservative" candidacy, the GOP will still hold a 'majority' (gerrymandority) in the House. So much for Karma.

The planet will be down the tubes, with climate change, already past the tipping point as Jim Hansen notes, passing the point of no return before the GOP get the comeuppance they have so richly deserved for so long.

Meanwhile authentic progressives in the US put up with varying degrees of negative treatment, up to and including assassination, maiming, torture, attainder and much more (as well as lesser crap), and that doesn't seem likely to end anytime soon either.

Karma? I think not!