House GOP moves ahead on suing Obama
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) House Republicans took the initial step on Thursday to sue President Barack Obama over the administration's decision to delay the employer mandate of the health care law.
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced that Republicans had released a draft resolution that would authorize the House to file suit amid GOP criticism that the president has declined to faithfully execute the laws of the country.
"In 2013, the president changed the health care law without a vote of Congress, effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it," Boehner said in a statement. "That's not the way our system of government was designed to work. No president should have the power to make laws on his or her own."
The House Rules Committee has scheduled a hearing on the resolution next week, with a House vote later this month.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/boehner-disagrees-call-obama-impeachment
Nite Owl
(11,303 posts)The GOP may have swung their vote toward the Dems.
truthisfreedom
(23,151 posts)I'm pretty sure I read that when Obama started tweaking it.
Cha
(297,503 posts)Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)Didn't the President make those changes for the republicans who were howling about unfair penalties??? Am I not remembering this correctly
rurallib
(62,433 posts)that was what I remember.
As I told Mrs. Lib - it's like me asking you for a drink of water and then suing you when you bring it
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)came down to the family room and said the same thing.. my head is literally spinning..
They were for the delay in mandates before they were "against" the delays. I think these idiots painted themselves into a corner with the lawsuit threat, even when they could not say what it was they were suing him for, so this is what they came up with!
The whole thing is going to backfire big time for them, and I couldn't be happier!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)They're suing him for doing what they pressed him to do. The Hypocrite Party?
gademocrat7
(10,665 posts)The entire rethug House needs to go.
Cha
(297,503 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)quadrature
(2,049 posts)why are dates written into law?
perhaps the Supremes should
just make that clear
7962
(11,841 posts)Shoonra
(523 posts)Do the House Republicans know that Barack Obama is a lawyer, that he studied law at Harvard, that he taught law at the University of Chicago? Do they know that, at the drop of a pin, hundreds of very talented lawyers around the country will donate their services to handle Obama's side of this lawsuit?
Do they know that the voter reaction to a lawsuit which, in effect, tries to punish Obama for making Affordable Care work, is probably going to cost the Republicans heavily on Election Day?
Do they even know that they were sent to Washington to legislate, not litigate?
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)Unfortunately. Law is politics.
24601
(3,962 posts)the constitutionality, or not, of his actions.
byronius
(7,398 posts)Had to look that up.
madokie
(51,076 posts)He'll be laughed out of the house over this before its all said and done. bonehead won't be the speaker much longer is my bet.
yuiyoshida
(41,835 posts)Wants his bar stool bronzed and put into the Washington Museum right next to the set of CHEERS.