Read this. Jeremy Nixon hits the nail on the head in one smooth Mr. Myagi stroke.

Read this. Jeremy Nixon hits the nail on the head in one smooth Mr. Myagi stroke.

Originally shared by Jeremy Nixon

It was the president’s signature health care law, and it wasn’t going well. The rollout was plagued with technical problems. The website didn’t work, and problems were rampant with back-end data. The call center was swamped. Consumers were confused, and poll numbers were terrible.

Amid debate over whether it would even be legal, the president used executive action to change the timetable of the rollout, delaying some provisions and waiving penalties for non-participation.

The Republican response was swift and predictable: They didn’t care at all, because this was George W. Bush delaying provisions of Medicare Part D, and it’s okay if you’re a Republican.

Yesterday, the House voted, as expected, to authorize a lawsuit against the president for delaying the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act. This despite the fact that the House passed a bill to delay the employer mandate themselves; this despite the fact that they’ve been trying to repeal the law for years. See, when Barack Obama does it, it’s the end of our constitutional system, an assault on freedom itself, a Hitlerian goose-step march into tyranny.

A win for the Republicans in this suit would mean the court ordering the president to implement the employer mandate – which will be implemented at the start of next year anyway. That is, ostensibly, the goal of this lawsuit: to move up the employer mandate by a few weeks at best, if the courts move at record speed. The same mandate the House voted to delay themselves; the same mandate they tried dozens of times to repeal.

Not really, of course. It’s really all about placating the rabid right-wingers, who want the House to impeach the president. The Republican leadership lack the courage to impeach. Maybe a lawsuit will keep the base quiet? Good luck with that, guys, but, you know, if you think the president is a lawless tyrant, impeaching him is what you’re supposed to do.

John Boehner and the House Republicans think that ignoring their Constitutional duty is an argument in favor of you voting for them. Think about that in November.

Now Congress is going on a long recess that is enshrined in law – what, you didn’t know they have a legally-guaranteed vacation? – without having passed an immigration bill, without having funded border security, without a highway bill, without a VA bill. But hey, they got the lawsuit thing done! Republicans can’t agree that veterans shouldn’t die waiting for health care that never comes, or that we should have a working transportation infrastructure, but you’d better believe they can agree they hate the president.

The current Congress is, objectively, the worst in the country’s history, and if past is prologue, 90% of them will be reëlected. Think about that, too, come November.