But the concept isn’t completely without underpinning. In a recent Los Angeles Times article titled “Why Experts See Little Hope for G.O.P. Plan to Sue Obama Over Law’s Delay,” David G. Savage pointed out: “While the Constitution does not authorize the legislative branch to sue the president, it says the House of Representatives may vote on articles of impeachment if it believes the president has committed ‘high crimes and misdemeanors.’ If Republicans believe Obama has broken the law, impeachment is the appropriate vehicle, analysts say.”

Adding an unprecedented legal maneuver to a long list of what Democrats view as extraordinary slights against this particular president is likely to excite a liberal base in dire need of excitement.

As a report by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press pointed out: “Barack Obama is as powerful a motivating factor for Republican voters as he was in 2010: about half (51 percent) of those who say they will vote Republican this fall consider their vote as a vote ‘against’ Obama, little changed from June 2010 (52 percent). And Obama has become a less positive factor for Democrats — 36 percent of those who plan to vote for the Democrat in their district view their vote as being ‘for’ Obama, down from 44 percent four years ago.”

But the anti-Obama Republican lawsuit could change all that.

A CNN/ORC poll released Friday found that while 45 percent of respondents said they believed the president had gone too far in expanding the power of the presidency and the executive branch, 52 percent believed that he “has been about right” or “has not gone far enough.”

For comparison, in 2006, the sixth year of the George W. Bush administration, 48 percent believed that he had gone too far, while just as many thought he was about right or hadn’t gone far enough.

Furthermore, only 41 percent of Americans believe House Republicans should sue the president, as opposed to 57 percent who believe they shouldn’t.

And if you believe that the lawsuit is simply, as some have called it, “impeachment lite,” the public truly has no appetite for that. Respondents in the CNN/ORC poll opposed impeachment by nearly two to one.

This may all be political theater, but in this act Democrats appear to have the most compelling lines.