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Boehner Taking Obama To Court Over Executive Orders
Fight over imperial moves seen as ‘dress rehearsal’ for potential impeachment
WND
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Wednesday said he would be launching a court case against the president over his profligate use of executive orders to make arbitrary changes in the nation’s Obamacare, immigration and other laws.
Changes in which Congress is supposed to be playing a role, but isn’t.
And observers couldn’t help but note that, even though Boehner said the arguments here and now are not about impeachment, that could be a logical next step.
Under the headline, “Speaker Boehner’s Obama impeachment dress rehearsal,” the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart noted even before Boehner announced his move, the prominent Republican was “fed up with what he views as Obama’s ‘offenses against the separation of powers.’”
“When there’s conflicts … between the legislative branch and the administrative branch, it’s, in my view, our responsibility to stand up for this institution,” Boehner said of Congress on Wednesday.
“This is not about impeachment, this is about his faithfully executing the laws of this country.”
Boehner continued, “The Constitution makes it clear that the president’s job is to faithfully execute the law. In my view, the president has not faithfully executed the law.”
Obama since his move into the Oval Office has frequently used executive orders to change laws he doesn’t like. Probably the biggest example is Obamacare, where Obama has a multitude of times simply issued an order changing something in the law, without going through Congress.
He’s granted exemptions from requirements, changed the dates on legal timelines and more.
He also used his peremptory “pen” and “telephone” privileges to simply drop a requirement in the law that recipients of some kinds of federal aid work, and he’s ordered Border Patrol agents to ignore the federal law regarding some illegal immigration.
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This is not about impeachment…it’s about the “usefulness of Congress.”
Since the day that Boehner stated that his job was to shut Obama down….republicans have done NOTHING, essentially rendering congress useless. Obama countered by enacting E.O.s.
This jolted Congress into reality…their only recourse is to lay the blame at Obamas feet……distracting the fact that they killed their own powers….put themselves out of a job….made themselves eunuchs.