The War Against Barack Obama

++John Boehner has announced he will sue the President over his enforcement of laws. Asked whether this suit involved the executive orders President Obama has issued, he said,"yes." But no one has been able to get the Speaker to be specific about his charges against President Obama.

++Democrats have claimed that this suit is a preliminary move to impeachment if the Republicans take the Senate this year. The rightwingblogosphere has been speaking about impeachment from the very day President Obama took office and GOP congressional leaders vowed from Day One not to cooperate with the President on a single thing. The accumulation of their efforts to deny the President legitimacy is the Boehner lawsuit.

++Constitutional lawyers have examined the basis of Boehner's case and claim he has too many hurtles to clear before a court even hears it. Benghazi chairman Trey Grady is going to introduce a bill next week which will allow the House to sue the President. I wonder what happens when the Senate doesn't take it up. There is a bizarre belief in the House that every time they vote to repeal Obamacare, it is a law. Then lawyers ask what standing the House has to sue. As the legal proponents of the sue admit the issues being contested actually are beneficial to people so there are no people harmed. In short, the suit is a legal attack of what would be called the "common good".

++The idea of the Boehner lawsuit is bizarre on the face of it. President Obama has issued 182 executive orders,the lowest number of any President since WWII. His monthly rate of orders is slightly above that of Grover Cleveland. Nixon issued 346 executive orders and Reagan 381. 

++The Right's cries for impeachment hark back to Solyndra, the solar energy company that went bankrupt,Fast and Furious,the AFT program that led to one death,anything having to do with Obamacare,getting POW Bergdahl home,the Benghazi deaths, and Lindsey Graham saying that any attempts to close Gitmo is an impeachable offense.

++The recent collapse of Iraq has fueled the rage because the whole George W. Bush project, which President Obama was being blackmailed to continue,has collapsed in an awesome way for all to see. The $4-6 trillion spent on the Iraq War has vanished, leaving each American in debt for $35,000. This has led the neo-cons to go off the rails. Dick Cheney at an Energy Summit in Montana attacked Obama for abandoning the two-war strategy of his day and cutting the Defense Budget (which he hasn't) to pay for foodstamps, which conservatives hear as money for black people. But this spectacle of a smoldering heap of the Right's dreams has provoked the latest attack on President Obama.

++The basic thinking is that with the President's approval polls sinking, now is the time to attack so as to win back the Senate and move finally to thwart this upstart.

++Today, Louie Gohmert put out a reward of $1million for anyone to retrieve the lost e-mails of the IRS. So, what's the beef on the IRS. The Tea Party, which didn't need to file for their legal status, was not denied the status. 0--yes--O were denied and 0 were audited. But Republicans believe that President Obama interfered with the IRS and ordered them to investigate the Tea Party. Now they claim that the IRS leaked information about Romney's tax forms to influence the 2012 election. 

++All of these pseudo- scandals have as their bottom line that President Obama didn't legitimately win the 2012 elections. If the people really knew the truth about Benghazi,it would have turned out differently. If the American people really knew about the IRS,it would have turned out differently. If the people knew about Obamacare, it would have turned out differently.

++Today, Ted Cruz has called for a Special Prosecutor to look into the IRS situation and if one isn't appointed,he will move to impeach Eric Holder, who is going to resign in months anyway.

++Darryl Issa,afraid he's going to lose the limelight,is thinking about giving Lois Lerner immunity if she testifies on the IRS scandal. 

++Democrats think that the more far-out the GOP goes it will rebound against them. I am skeptical.The GOP sees their donors threatened by the EPA regulations and they came under attack by Charles Krauthammer today.

++President Obama called Boehner's lawsuit a "stunt". He also mocked congressional Republicans for their climate change denial at the Conservation Voters dinner. This will infuriate the GOP and make them double down on their efforts.

++The atmosphere is foul here in the Beltway.