John Boehner. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
hen
Eric Cantor was asked to leave his place of employment -- that request
came from his constituents -- he neglected to pass along the location of
the mason jar in which he buried John Boehner's balls back in 2010.
Boehner's search now has become one of those National Treasure movies,
where you have to find the location of the clues before you can find the
location of the treasure. Apparently, he's come to the spot on the map
that reads, "Now that the president has acted on immigration, it's time to sue him over the Affordable Care Act."The filing of the lawsuit, announced one day after Obama unveiled a series of executive actions on immigration, will not address the president's upcoming moves on deportations and immigration enforcement. Boehner's office said it is also considering legal action on immigration, but added that that would require another House vote. "If this president can get away with making his own laws, future presidents will have the ability to as well," the Speaker said in a statement. "The House has an obligation to stand up for the Constitution, and that is exactly why we are pursuing this course of action."
I have lived through the administration of 12
presidents now. If what this president did Thursday night is "making his
own laws," then every one of those 12 presidents have "made their own
laws." Richard Nixon made his own law about bombing Cambodia and
encouraging burglaries. Ronald Reagan made his own law about negotiating
with terrorists and financing murderers in Central America. This is
neither the time nor the place for an argument about how Congress
steadily deeded its own constitutional powers to the Executive over the
last 60 years, and how the current Congress pretends now that it only
noticed what Congresses had been doing when the country elected the Blah
Democrat a couple of times. But Boehner knows They're Out There
Somewhere. The president has acted on immigration so we must sue him
over health care. It only makes sense if you have the keys to the map.
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