Back in July, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to file a historically unprecedented lawsuit against President Obama for delaying Obamacare's employer mandate. But months have since passed, with no news that a lawsuit has been drawn up or filed. There's been some speculation that Speaker John Boehner was intentionally slow-walking the process until after the election, not wanting to jeopardize the party's potential Senate gains by reviving headlines of House GOP overreach.
This week, however, Politico's Josh Gerstein and Maggie Haberman reported that Boehner's actually been having serious problems even finding a law firm willing to file the suit — two have tentatively signed on, and then gotten cold feet. Originally, attorney David Rivkin — who crafted the unique legal arguments Boehner used to justify the suit — was supposed to draw up the suit itself. But his firm, Baker Hostetler, pulled out. More recently, Bill Burck of the firm Quinn Emanuel was also tentatively hired, until similarly backing away.
Of course John Boehner does not actually want to sue the President.
The lawsuit is just a bone that Boehner threw to the rabid Right Wing to keep them from pushing Congress to impeach Obama. Which Boehner knew would, number one fail, and number two energize the liberal base making it almost impossible for the Republicans to hang on to closely contested seats in this election cycle.
However, and this is what we need to keep in mind, IF the Republicans gain control of the Senate there is literally nothing holding them back from actually attempting to impeach the President, dismantling Obamacare, and undoing many of the President's most important policies.
That is why it is beyond critical for all of us to show up and vote at the polls.
If we think things are bad now, we are in for a very rude awakening once the Republicans get a lock on power in Washington.
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