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It’s happening.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wasn’t calling President Obama’s bluff when he said he’d sue him over his use of executive power. On Thursday, Boehner, in all his tanned glory, took the first step to sue Obama over the administration’s decision to delay the employer mandate of the health care law.

Boehner announced that Republicans had released a draft resolution that would authorize the House to file suit amid GOP criticism that the President has declined to faithfully execute the laws of the country.

“Today we’re releasing a draft resolution that will authorize the House to file suit over the way President Obama unilaterally changed the employer mandate.  In 2013, the president changed the health care law without a vote of Congress, effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it.  That’s not the way our system of government was designed to work.  No president should have the power to make laws on his or her own.

“As I’ve said, this isn’t about Republicans versus Democrats; it’s about the Legislative Branch versus the Executive Branch, and above all protecting the Constitution.  The Constitution states that the president must faithfully execute the laws, and spells out that only the Legislative Branch has the power to legislate.  The current president believes he has the power to make his own laws – at times even boasting about it.  He has said that if Congress won’t make the laws he wants, he’ll go ahead and make them himself, and in the case of the employer mandate in his health care law, that’s exactly what he did. If this president can get away with making his own laws, future presidents will have the ability to as well.  The House has an obligation to stand up for the Legislative Branch, and the Constitution, and that is exactly what we will do.”

The House Rules Committee has scheduled a hearing on the resolution next week, with a House vote later this month.

The draft resolution comes as other members of the GOP demand the impeachment of President Obama. Boehner, however, disagrees with those demands, but asserts that others can make a determination on their own whether the chief executive deserves it.

And if this all seems a little ridiculous, that’s because it is. President Obama has called the lawsuit a “stunt,” while criticizing lawmakers for inaction on legislation, such as a stalled bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration system.

Which, we think, holds more weight in importance than shading the president. Just saying.

SOURCE: Speaker.gov, CBS | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty

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