Malpractice

The Republicans have been fishing for votes in the shallow end of the IQ pool for over a decade now. I suppose the inevitable question is whether they have hooked stupid or stupid has hooked them. Either way, they now own it. What is amazing to me is how eager they are to display this stupidity. Anyone who advises the majority party in the House of Representatives to file a frivolous law suit against the President of the United States is guilty of political malpractice, and any attorney who advises the majority party in the House of Representatives to file such a suit is guilty of legal malpractice. But here we are; the party of stupid is actually going to file such a suit! From a legal standpoint, it is doubtful that the House of Representatives has the standing to file such a suit. From a political standpoint, the worst thing that could happen to the Republicans would be if a judge rules that they do have standing and the case is allowed to move forward.

The real problem for the Republicans is that their justifications for filing this suit are based on lies. Without the lies the Republicans have no grievance, and if they try to present those lies in court the truth will come out. Come on folks, the delay in implementing the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act is the sort of administrative decision many Presidents have made in order to work out the kinks before a program takes full effect. It is also well established that President Obama did not ruin Medicare in order to pay for the Affordable Care Act, nor did he eliminate the work requirement from welfare. Furthermore, if the court rules that a President who issues an executive order is exceeding his authority, it will mean that most of our Presidents since WWII have exceeded their authority. In fact some Republican Presidents, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, have issued more executive orders than has President Obama. But none on that means anything to the Republicans, because they are too intellectually bankrupt to acknowledge any history or to think about what any given precedent could mean to them in the future.

The one thing you can bet on is that when the results of this suit prove to be unsatisfactory to the Republican base, there will be a great wailing and rending of all reason as those sanctimonious idiots accuse the judge or judges of having a liberal bias. There will also be a demand to relitigate the case in a different forum, meaning impeachment in the House of Representative and then a trial in the Senate. We all know how well it worked out for the Republicans when they impeached Bill Clinton!  Suicide anyone?  The self destruction of the Republican Party could be amusing if they do not take the political structure down with them. Therein lies the danger. If the GOP succeeds in removing President Obama from office, no Presidential election results will ever be considered final again. The Democrats have to have control of the Senate to prevent that!  Even then the Republicans will squander valuable resources on the frivolous law suit and outrageous impeachment precedings, while our economy will continue to suffer from the neglect and obstructionist tactics of the Republican Party.