Let me clear up your confusion, DWS.

Oh dear. Representative and chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman Schultz, from my own state of Florida, is trying to scold House Republicans. CNN Opinion published a piece written by her entitled "Republicans, we're confused." It's ok, Debbie. Thinking is hard.

She takes issue with the GOP-controlled House's vote to sue President Obama for his various unlawful executive actions. Well, actually, the vote was to authorize House Speaker John Boehner to sue, not bring the suit themselves, but I'll let the utter lack of nuance slide. She claims that this, coupled with the House GOP leadership's statement that "There are numerous steps the President can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action," makes for a contradictory and obstructionist position by those rambunctious, rascally Representatives. As she puts it, "Sue the President for doing his job one day; ask him to do their job for them the next. The hypocrisy is difficult to fathom."

Allow me to illuminate.

She says the House's initial failure to vote on an immigration bill and subsequent passing of a bill she doesn't approve of is indicative of this "do-nothing Congress." So the bill geared toward enforcing the law and deporting illegal immigrants apparently amounts to doing nothing. Never mind that the President immediately promised to veto it and the Democrat-controlled Senate will kill it before it can even reach Obama's desk.

This leads me to my main point. The House passed this bill as an example of what enforcing the law should look like. As in, Obama's job. He's the executive, he enforces legislation. The fact that Congress even needs to pass a bill represents a failure of the President to uphold his oath of office, which is what the House GOP observed in its supposedly contradictory statement. Schultz also claims that voters "are fed up with the more than 50 votes to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act." Oh, really? Is that why polls show about 56% disapproval and only about 40% approval for the ACA? I'd say the House of Representatives, you know, the people elected to represent the people, are doing their job fine on that front.

Speaking of jobs, look at Schultz's opening statement again: "House Republicans took the unprecedented action of voting to sue the President for doing his job and taking action to stand up for the American people." The President's job, despite his being a popularly elected official, is not to "stand up for the American people." It is to govern, to enforce and uphold law, to defend the people as commander and chief. Congress's job is to "stand up for the American people." That's why they're elected. They have constituents. They also have limits, like the President.

Maybe that's where Schultz is so confused. She seems to think the President's job is to be all three branches of government. He is supposed to make law, interpret law, and enforce law as he sees fit. Congress is supposed to write nice things for him to sign and otherwise sit there and look pretty while the expert fixes everything. Hate to burst your bubble, but that's not how things are supposed to work. Powers are separated in this government of ours to prevent solely one man, or solely an oligarchy, or solely majority rule from deciding what happens.

Schultz calls "alarmingly apparent" the Republican House's "insistence on adhering to rigid ideology." Yeah, it's called law. It's called the Constitution. It's called America.

Still confused?