So its come to this. After five and a half years of setting records for filibusters, blocking judicial nominees, stonewalling executive branch appointees and holding the debt ceiling hostage, Republicans are planning a lawsuit to compel President Obama to follow his oath of office and faithfully execute the laws of our country. The culmination (or perhaps penultimate step) of an unprecedented campaign of obstruction that began the very night Barack Obama first took the oath of office, House Speaker John Boehner announced he must sue because the President has consistently overstepped his authority under the Constitution. If thats what House Republicans truly believe, then they must support the investigation and possible prosecution of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the architects of the detainee torture program they carried out in our name. After all, while Speaker Boehner doesnt yet know which laws the President isnt faithfully executing (or as he recently put it, When I make that decision Ill let you know), Bush and Cheney publicly boasted about ordering waterboarding and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques clearly prohibited by U.S. and international law.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 06:15:31 +0000
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