out that word impeachment. and what does this talk mean to democrats? is this going to excite them or incite them? joining me is perry bacon and david corn. thank you so much, gentlemen. let me ask you, perry about this thing. it seems like it s the new litmus test. if you re asked about impeachment, i think this is going to continue now, they are going to be forced to say i m just pursuing the guy. i m not for impeaching him. it does seem to be setting a bar of craziness. your thoughts? it is setting a bar. it s telling you that the john boehner lawsuit didn t do any good. it was created to mollify people on the right who want to see obama taken on. obama has said i don t care what boehner thinks. i m going to executive orders any way. and the sarah palins are mocking boehner too. what you re going to see are
columnist for washington post, dana milbank. this would seem to only end in tears, right? what does he do now? i think he ll probably be okay with a lot of his base. you have to realize, just how out there sarah palin is right now. even among conservatives. nbc wall street journal had a poll saying not only do a majority of americans wish sarah palin would shut up, 40% of conservatives and 40% of republicans want her to shut up. but she s representing a minority even really among conservatives now in calling for impeachment. but there are very vocal minority. what boehner is doing is trying to take some of the wind out of their sails, saying i m not going to give you impeachment because he knows how preposterous that would go. he s trying to just give them a little. they are going to keep pushing back at that. but he knows if he tries
when we talk about firing up the base, there were protests outside speaker boehner s office who threatened him with a block lawsuit for blocking immigration reform. did the speaker have any idea his lawsuit would just fire up his opponents? they must. look, boehner has been in office for a long time. certainly he knew there would be some sort of backlash to this. there are moments when the president is week in the sense of his public opinion polls lagging. what s going on in iraq and the summer doll district managers when people tune out from thinking about the political world. what boehner has done is turn everyone away from what had been a bad news cycle for the president toward a good news cycle. americans recognize that this is a dually elected twice
through congress? so is this a valid point that he s making or is it more than really a stunt and it will put a dent in the approval ratings? yeah, i don t think boehner s lawsuit is going to put a dent in obama s ratings. i think it s going to hurt the gop and hurt them badly. i think the democrats have been able to fundraise off it easily and quickly. president is right in both actions. he s going to take executive action where he needs it. and the fact that the gop is doing so little gives him the cover to do it anyway. we re talking about the numbers. you saw over a half million dollars being able to be raised. the highest online fundraising day ever. so is this all against them, the gop? is there any way of turning it around based on what boehner is doing? is he going to walk away from the lawsuit? highly doubt he will. he pledged to bring legislation
weigh in on separations of powers fights between the other two branches of governments. even if this challenge would succeed, it would likely take years before we find out what the courts believe. in other words, it would be more likely to set the parameters for a president hillary clinton or speaker steve scalise than for president obama and speaker boehner. what boehner will tell you is all his members when they go home and talk to their constituents, their base constituents, they hear this, that the president is running rough shade ovod over house republicans. so this is their answer. the other thing republicans can get out of this potentially, it gives them something to run or or at least defend in an election year they have gotten very little done. boehner said it is not intended for the republican base during the midterms but the only folks happier of what boehner has done, democrats. house republicans are so against