July 30, 2014
By Michael A. Memoli
By Michael A. Memoli
The House (click here) vote to sue President Obama is the first such legal challenge by a chamber of Congress against a president and a historic foray in the fight over constitutional checks and balances.
Wednesday’s nearly party-line vote followed a feisty floor debate and offered a fresh example of how the capital’s hyper-partisanship has led both parties into unprecedented territory, going to new and greater lengths to confront one another....
This is the ultimate expression of racism, especially when Dick Cheney is volunteering to be President Obama's defense attorney; not literally, but he may as well have volunteered for it.