Chris Matthews: Obama Should Sue Congress for ‘Failure to Provide Services’

‘So there you go, Mr. President. Get yourself a bright lawyer and slap up the papers. If little ol’ John Boehner can slap a suit at you, you can slap it back’

Chris Matthews: Obama Should Sue Congress for 'Failure to Provide Services'; He's Serious (NewsBusters)

For Barack Obama's 53rd birthday, Chris Matthews gave the gift of an incredibly stupid idea. In his closing "Let Me Finish" commentary for August 4, the MSNBC Hardball host urged the president to "get yourself a bright lawyer" and work up a lawsuit against Congress for "failure to provide services." 

Yes, "normally that would strike me or you as absurd, but now that we're in the suing season, it deserves a tad of consideration," Matthews insisted, likening Congress to a DMV clerk who straight up refuses to do his job and grant you your license renewal after you've waited in line forever. You can read the transcript in full below the page break, followed by my analysis.

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