Boehner Elaborates On His Lawsuit Against Obama

President Barack Obama talks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, prior to speaking to media, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, before a meeting with members of Congres... President Barack Obama talks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, prior to speaking to media, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, before a meeting with members of Congress to discuss the situation in Syria. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) penned an op-ed for CNN on Sunday explaining why he pushing for the House to file a lawsuit against President Obama over his use of executive actions.

“Every member of Congress swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So did President Barack Obama,” Boehner began in the op-ed. “But too often over the past five years, the President has circumvented the American people and their elected representatives through executive action, changing and creating his own laws, and excusing himself from enforcing statutes he is sworn to uphold — at times even boasting about his willingness to do it, as if daring the American people to stop him.”

Boehner bashed Obama’s “flippant dismissal of the Constitution” and blamed inaction in Washington on the President and congressional Democrats.

“I don’t take the House legal action against the President lightly. We’ve passed legislation to address this problem (twice), but Senate Democrats, characteristically, have ignored it,” he wrote.

Read the entire-op-ed at CNN.

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  1. This should be fun and beneficial to Republicans for 2014… //snark

  2. And if you ever grow the balls to bring this to a vote vote to go forward, we will watch the ‘this isn’t political’ argument crumble in the face of 100% RWNJ voting aye and D’s voting against. Then every D in the country can ram this down their throats come fall.

  3. That was some “elaboration.” Any grade-schooler could have written the “op-ed.” Come to think of it…

  4. So when do we get to find out what the actual grievance is?

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