What is this John Boehner lawsuit? John Boehner is trying to do something that has never been
done before. He's trying to have the House of Representatives institutionally sue President
Obama. What's weird is that the particular nature of the suit is John Boehner demanding
that Obama enforce a law that John Boehner doesn't like more stringently. John Boehner
wants to repeal all of Obamacare. He wants to repeal pretty much every part of Obamacare
and there's one part of Obamacare that Barack Obama delayed for a year, this employer mandate
-- the part where employers would have to insure their employees or pay a penalty, at
least if they have enough workers who aren't ensured. If John Boehner won his lawsuit,
the outcome of that would be that President Obama would have to more quickly implement
a part of a law that John Boehner does not want implemented at all. Does that seem weird
to you. What could it be about? John Boehner was a member of Congress in 1998. He watched
Republicans lose an election they were supposed to win because they hated Clinton so much
that they impeached him over the objections of the American people. They made themselves
look crazy. He watched Speaker Newt Gingrich resign because of that loss. John Boehner
knows impeachment fever is rising in the Republican party. There are books being written about
why Barack Obama should be impeached. Calls coming from conservative activists. Sarah
Palin. So maybe John Boehner is giving them a way to safely release a little bit of tension,
a way to get it all out. What's interesting about this lawsuit is he is not just bringing
it. He's bringing it to the House. He wants to have a long drawn-out process where the
House of Representatives decides whether or not to join his lawsuit against President
Obama. It's almost like an impeachment process where they come down on the floor and they
go on every TV show and they make the case, except at the end of making that case what
happens is not impeachment. What happens at the end of making that case is not that Republicans
do something extremely stupid, it's that they do something that is just kind of probably a waste of time.