“It’s time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.”

— Sarah Palin, writing for Breitbart, calling for the impeachment of President Obama.

Iowa U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst (R) told a crowd that she believed President Obama had “become a dictator” and that he needed to face the consequences for his executive actions, “whether that’s removal from office, whether that’s impeachment,” Yahoo News reports.

Said Ernst: “Unfortunately we have a number of legislators right now that simply let these things happen. They’re not speaking up against these actions. They’re not speaking out against the president when he oversteps his bounds, when he makes those appointments, when he’s appointing czars, when he is producing executive orders in a threat to a Congress that won’t do as he wishes. So he has become a dictator.”

“Starting next week, House Republicans will launch a highly visible–and likely tumultuous–three-week process of bringing to the floor legislation to authorize their promised lawsuit against President Obama over his use of executive actions,” National Journal reports.

Said a GOP aide: “In theory, you could report out a resolution tomorrow and vote on it. But that is not the approach [the leaders] want to take.”

“Rather, the aim is to display–if not actually engage in–a more deliberative process, even if amid controversy. This drawn-out script builds toward a potentially dramatic floor vote held just days, or even hours, before the House adjourns on July 31 for its August-long summer break.”

Dana Millbank says the oft-leveled accusation that President Obama is running an “imperial presidency” is a bit silly.

“As imperial rulers go, this president has about as much oppressive might and raw dictatorial clout as Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein. Republicans have never respected Obama’s authority. And now, as his popularity slips, he seems to be losing his ability to influence foreign allies, congressional Democrats and some of his previously loyal supporters.”

“Both the puny executive action and the criticism from erstwhile allies on Monday showed why the Obama presidency these days is falling a good bit short of imperial on the Alexander the Great scale. Education was the White House’s message du jour — lunch with teachers on the South Lawn was the only item on Obama’s publicly released schedule other than his intelligence briefing — but it didn’t have a chance of wresting the national narrative away from less pleasant affairs.”