When the Going Gets Rough, Sue

So John Boner has decided to sue the President of the United States.  And he got his minion republicans in the house to go along with him. So the fight is on, that is, the lawsuit.

Not much will get done while this business is underway. But then not much has come from the House for 6 years. All they have done is argue among themselves, raised their rhetoric and blockaded most of the business before them. Individual house members listen carefully to their party leadership and follow orders. Oh, and they listen as well to their financial backers so they don’t lose campaign funding. Those voices they hear are not yours or mine. They are the voices of power and influence, buying what they need and think they deserve. They are, after all, the captains of industry that make America go and grow. At least they like to think so!

The cries for impeachment of President Obama are heard more often these days. The lawsuit is first, then they will float the impeachment threat. Problem is, they do not have cause for a lawsuit, let alone impeachment.

Let’s face it. Republicans don’t like Democrats. And vice versa, too. But when did democrats last sue a sitting president? Yes, they did impeach Nixon, but that was bipartisan. Clinton’s impeachment and lawsuits were meant to distract the nation from its work. And to bog the president down so nothing could get accomplished. Remember the impeachment failed. Also the lawsuits. The suits did accomplish an enormous personal debt for legal costs privately borne by the Clinton’s. More than $16 million worth of such debt. Shameful.

Republicans are immature and play their political games like kids. They sneer and make jokes in poor taste. They don’t even hide their racism very well with respect to the Obama’s. They play poorly. They don’t get along with others that don’t agree with them, they have lost their ability to conduct diplomacy, they cry war often and will do almost anything to throw monkey wrenches into the works of government to attempt to demonstrate the failure of the President.

At that they have failed. The American public gets what is going on. The republicans are held in low esteem. They demonstrate no workable ideas to do the business of America. They whine and gripe and blame anything and everything. Problem is: their fingers point back at themselves.

I understand why Boner is upset. I understand his frustration. He has lost his cool. He has lost his functionality. He has lost his reputation and character. He is turning out to be a very poor speaker of the house. He is nasty. And he earns shame on our nation because he is nasty.

Bernie Sanders to the rescue!  An Independent Senator from Vermont, Bernie offers this quote today:

“For most Republicans in Congress it is okay to spend unlimited sums on a war we should never have gotten into, but it’s wrong to rebuild our bridges, roads, rail system, water systems, wastewater plants, dams, culverts and airports – and make our country more productive.”

Of course they support war. They think it is manly to shoot guns and rockets. They look for ways to be insulted by other nations so they can threaten war against them. Just watch John McCain and his sidekick Lindsay Graham. All they talk about is external threats to America, threats I might add they have helped create. They refuse to sit down and discuss new defense methods that would better safeguard the nation (that is actually defend it!) while also saving money and lives. But no, they are in bed with the corporations who make money on defense materials and weapons. Meanwhile, they declaim our weak borders, the same borders that McCain and George W. Bush failed to get bolstered because their own party refused to listen. So they spent billions on a fence. A fence!

They decry Obama’s lack of progress on the illegal immigration issue while they themselves helped create the mess, then failed to fix it. Listen to McCain’s speeches on the topic over the years. What Obama wants to do to fix the immigration debacle is the very same thing McCain put forth as a solution. But with a different party in the White House, he has to take the opposite view. Opposite even from his own views! Strange behavior, eh?

We have the first African American President in the White House in our history. That is a good thing. By all accounts Mr. Obama has done an excellent job. He has not usurped the powers of the Congress or the Senate. He has challenged them to provide workable answers. He will sign such legislation. He even offers his own ideas on the matter. But they shoot those points down while not offering up their own ideas. This pattern of childish behavior under the Capitol Dome has gone on for over 6 years.

I am ashamed of America because of it. Aren't you?

In the 18 months left in his presidential term, President Obama will get a lot accomplished only because the Congress is absent from their desks and playing games that do not help the nation with its problems. It will be fun to watch the President accomplish what Congress has blocked all these years.

Meanwhile, I think we should rise up as citizens and sue our elected representatives and impeach them for not doing their job.

Maybe that would give them something to think about!

July 28, 2014