John Boehner needs to get a life!

John Boehner is becoming the master of the Capitol Hill stunt. In recent days the Speaker of the House has suggested that President Obama had exceeded his charge and become a kind of democratic dictator, skirting the desires and intentions of the Republican House by resorting to “executive orders” to govern unilaterally. Now Boehner has announced plans to “sue” the president over these orders.

The truth for all to see, is that Boehner has an important off-year election coming up–perhaps the most important off-year election in fifty years, for the Republicans. For the first time in a very long while, it is entirely possible, even probable that the Republicans will take charge of the House AND Senate, formally putting the final nail in Obama’s lame duck presidency. 

So why is Boehner so anxious to go after the teetering Obama in such a public arena as the courts? Does he believe that a frivolous lawsuit like this is going to go anywhere at all? Of course he doesn’t. If he was so convinced of Obama’s culpability he would be calling for impeachment. But, of course, a controversial call like that would put the expected election surge in November in danger because the American people have had enough of impeachment for the moment.

No, a better road to walk down is the tried-and-true public relations play, and that alone accounts for Boehner’s silly, time-wasting and potentially harmful-to-the-public’s-interests ploy. Maybe the Speaker of the House needs to find something a bit more serious to do with all that time on his hands.