The silliness of the GOP lawsuit, and the benefits of it.

On Wednesday, the GOP-led House voted to sue the President over the delayed implementation of a portion of the ACA.  Back in 2010, not a single GOP House member voted for the ACA, which makes this highly hypocritical and rather dumb.

After all, how can you take the high road and demand that the President follow through and carry out a law that Congress passed, when you didn't vote to pass it in the first place?

Republicans poking their own eyes out

Imagine if a Democratic Congress had passed the Poke All Republicans in the Eye Act without a single Republican vote in support.  A few years later the President, upon consultation with optometrists, ophthalmologists and cabinet members, determined that the PARE-Act needed to be delayed in implementation until rules could be properly drawn up to avoid serious eye injury.  Republicans, now in control of the House, understandably upset that they are unable to repeal the PARE-Act, decide to sue the President to enforce 100% of the PARE-Act without delay.

Well anyway, that's my perspective on what's going on, here.

History is not on their side, either.

A bonus for Democrats

Republicans hypocritically passed a bill that provided for unlimited spending of taxpayer dollars, without having to offset cuts anywhere else -- something Republicans in the House said they'd do, under their numerous balanced budget proposals.

A second bonus for Democrats

Greg Walden lied.  According to WaPo, he stated that, "The American people, especially independent voters, in the data we see, believe this administration has overreached time and again and they are clamoring for somebody to push back in a responsible way to get the administration to start following the law."  But we already knew a week ago from this CNN poll that 55% of independent / 57% of all voters were against a lawsuit.  In fact, the only group wanting to file a lawsuit, are Republicans -- 64% of them, as a matter of fact.

A third bonus for Democrats

Republican politicians are lying about who's pushing impeachment.  That same CNN poll shows that 57% of Republicans want to impeach the President.  Slate's Dave Weigel tracked the lengthy list of Republicans who've come out pushing impeachment.  Why?  Because Greg Walden told them that impeachment would be detrimental towards the GOP during the midterms.

A fourth bonus for Democrats

Republicans still believe that the midterms are a referendum on the ACA.  But as the data has shown, uninsured rates have suddenly dropped as a result of the ACA and both its expansion of Medicaid and the insurance exchanges.  In Kentucky, the number of uninsured has been cut in half.  In Massachusetts, the rate of uninsured residents has gone from 3.9% in 2013 to under 1% in 2014.  According to a Wallethub review of KFF projections, proactive states have all dramatically lowered their rate of uninsured.  So you know what this means: Democrats can now run on the effects of the ACA's repeal, were Republicans to win in the midterms.  Rather than talk about supporting "Obamacare" or the ACA, the new talking point is what happens when the ACA gets repealed by Republicans.