Are House conservatives preparing to sue Barack Obama if he acts unilaterally through Executive Order?

 Are the conservatives in the House preparing to sue Barack Obama if he acts unilaterally to impose his radical agenda? That is what Michele Bachmann is claiming.

Bachmann said an effort is underway in Congress to take back their “authority under the Constitution as the House of Representatives.” She said the plan is to introduce legislation allowing lawmakers to hire an attorney, so “we can force the president to act under the Constitution.”

“We’ll sue the president of the United States and force him to no longer act unilaterally,” she said.

Bachmann says Obama will have a fight ahead. “If he wants to go forward with his unilateral activity, he better be prepared for the lawsuit that the United States Congress will bring,” she said.

  Apparently there is something to this for it looks as though South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice is preparing a bill to do just that if the president insists on acting without the Congress.

    Barack Obama has promised threatened the Congress several times in recent weeks, warning the Congress that if they do not give him what he wants he will take it on his own anyway. This, of course, flies in the face of the Constitution which specifically and purposely limited the power of the president because the Founders were concerned about a central figure with all encompassing powers.

  All presidents, starting with George Washington, have used Article II Section I and Article II Section 3 to justify using what eventually became known as the Executive Order, but where these presidents differed from Barack Obama is that the Executive Order was used to implement existing laws passed by the Congress, they were not meant to be used to create new laws and they certainly were not meant to declare laws null and void.

  If Barack Obama makes good on his threat, and I see no reason why he will not, (in fact many of us tried to warn the people he would do this if he was reelected) then there is no doubt in my mind he is violating the Constitution by assuming powers he does not have so action must be taken.

  While this is a necessary action I am afraid it will be a futile action. Even if the Republican establishment leadership allows this to go forward, and I have my doubts they will, it will take years for any challenges to make their way through the courts and in the meantime everything Barack Obama wants he will take. The only way to stop Barack Obama at this point is to remove him from office and that ain’t going to happen. We are going to be stuck with a defacto dictator for the next three years and there is nothing we can do about it.