We've Seen This Movie Before

Remember back in the late 1990's when the GOP had no particular ideas, plans or ambitions which they cared to share publicly, other than to grab and maintain power by any means possible?  Pretty much exactly like today?

What did they do then to distract from and gum up the second term of a popular Democratic President, Bill Clinton?

They went on a prude's witch-hunt, supposedly worried to death about what President Bill and his executive willy may have been doing in the White House with Monica the Intern and her blue dress.  Ken Starr and the House Republicans failed miserably in their misguided attempt to impeach the President for trying to cover up his affair.  It was tabloid-style, lowest-common-denominator political muck --  a stupid, lurid waste of gobs of public time and money.  But the goddam circus consumed the media, kept the Democrat jumpin' through hoops, and made him look bad.  Which was the point.

Today, 16-17 years later, nothing has changed.  Another popular Democrat occupies the Oval Office and the GOP still has nothing to offer beyond gross obstructionism, a hard-on for power and control, and a willingness to do anything to get it.  Clown-Thug Darrell Issa holds hearing after hearing on non-starter scandals -- Obamacare, the IRS, Benghazi.  And now, from the ancient trick-bag of shiny objects, John Boehner has pulled out a lawsuit against the President.

The Orange Boner says he'll gleefully toss a monkey-wrench into the rest of President Obama's second term by suing him for supposed "abuse" of Executive Orders.  In truth, Obama has used Executive Orders less often than any recent president, far less than Dubya and Reagan, for example.  

But truth doesn't matter to these schmucks.  Obama is trying to do something, while the Republicans intentionally, proudly do abso-fucking-lutely nothing.  They brag about it, and they laugh about it.

We've seen this movie before.  Boehner and his Party of No clearly prefer suing to working.  It's shameful, but shameful is just about the only thing they do well.