I think House and Senate Republicans should start their own movie studio and make movies.  They could star in them, and the plot would always be the same: how they are advancing the conservative agenda.  I say this because I see so much political theater on Capitol Hill, which, while entertaining on video, is meant to fool Republican voters into believing that they are fighting Obama.

The latest example?  The Republican "lawsuit" against Obamacare:

Angry at what they saw as the Obama administration’s frequent flouting of congressional authority, House Republicans last year began casting about for a way to fight back.

They are so tough, so brave!

Jo-Marie St. Martin, counsel to Speaker John A. Boehner and a ferocious defender of the rights of the House, quietly put the word out that the leadership was looking for potential lawsuit targets so it could challenge the White House in court.

She's ferocious!

A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the House can sue the executive branch for usurping its authority over spending — its vaunted “power of the purse” — in a case resulting from years of bitter struggle between the Obama administration and the Republican House over who controls which levers of power.

The case at hand involves some spending on Obamacare that Congress says was not authorized but Obama claims is.

If Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of Federal District Court lets the case — House of Representatives v. Sylvia Mathews Burwell — proceed, it would break with a long history of the courts looking askance at such suits between the two branches and be the first time the House has won the right to sue the executive branch over appropriations power.

If you blink, you might miss the punch line.  Congress is suing the Executive over appropriations power.

Congress already has this power.  It's in the Constitution.  Congress, if it wanted to, could easily pass appropriations that contain a strict prohibition on spending money for Obamacare.  But Congress refuses to.  Instead, Congress goes crying to court.

What do you think will happen?  Constitutional lawyer and talk show host Mark Levin has talked about this at length, and he worries that the prospects may not be good.  He thinks the case could get laughed out of court, because courts realize that Congress already has the tools to deal with it and refused to use them.  It is odd indeed for Congress to tell the Judiciary, "We could have stopped the president but didn't.  We want you to."

In any event, if this case is even allowed to go forward, by the time it is decided and appealed and appealed again, years will have passed, and Obama will be long gone, working on his 500th round of golf in Palm Springs with Michelle and the kids living several states away.

This is all about political theater.  Instead of using the power it has to stop Obamacare, Congress is all about convincing you it's tough when in reality it's mush.

This article was produced by NewsMachete.com, the conservative news site.