Pence is the only major player in Washington to come out of the disastrous last week with any credit. He is a breath of normality in an increasingly bizarre and dangerous situation.
Pence Refuses to Invoke the 25th Amendment
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President material? Always has a level head..
If I’m reading the language of the Amendment correctly it would have required the consent of (1) Pence and (2) 8 cabinet secretaries. There are only 10 secretaries at this time. The other positions are vacant and their functions performed by placeholders.
The whole impeachment / 25th Amendment fandango leaves you with two possibilities: (1) Pelosi etc is given to mad improvising and hasn’t a clue as to the actual content of the constitutional provisions she’s babbling about or (2) it’s just another grotesque little show.
Did you catch how Liz Cheney is now on the impeachment bandwagon? I was most amazed at the audacity she displayed at running for office in a state where she’s spent at most three years of her life (pro-rating part time and seasonal residency – if she ever lived there f/t it was in 1977 and 1978 and never thereafter). Her husband is a partner in a Washington BigLaw firm with a ‘government relations’ practice. He’s about as swampy as you can be. He’s pretending to be a resident of Teton County. You figure dealing with these people?
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Any who, her reaction to this befits a woman who has lived in metropolitan Washington for 3/4 of her life, whose high school diploma was issued in Fairfax County, Va., and whose father landed a job as a congressional aide when she was two years old. (NB, her parents’ primary residence was in Washington from 1968 to 1995, bar 1977 and 1978; he collected federal salaries for 23 years).
Any who, her reaction to this befits a woman who has lived in metropolitan Washington for 3/4 of her life, whose high school diploma was issued in Fairfax County, Va., and whose father landed a job as a congressional aide when she was two years old. (NB, her parents’ primary residence was in Washington from 1968 to 1995, bar 1977 and 1978; he collected federal salaries for 23 years).
Being a conservative for her is simply the family business. We have too many professional conservatives who are transparently fake, simply along for the cash and the power.
Being a conservative for her is simply the family business. We have too many professional conservatives who are transparently fake, simply along for the cash and the power.
I’d say that about cretins like Steve Schmidt. Not sure about Cheney. I cannot remember what firm she worked for, but her husband is with scant doubt hoovering up cash. Most political jobs for conservatives or poseur conservatives are modestly compensated and you’d be as well off teaching school or running a small law practice. A very few acquire gigs in lobbying, in media, or in foundations that pay handsomely. There should be fewer such opportunities than there are. (It seems to me Liz Cheney had some sort of commentary gig on Fox).
many elected congressmen serve the plutocrats, both parties.
many other congressmen, both parties, are simply too cowardly to stand up to the plutocrats.
there are at least two peaceful and possible ways to thwart the plutcracy.
first, if enough Americans refuse to buy their services and products, the plutocrats will most likely back off. greed is ONE of their weaknesses. imho, this is the most effective strategy.
the, even more difficult and thus less likely to succeed, is to have overwhelming majorities in an election. that would make it more difficult to steal an election.
in Georgia for example, flipping less than seven thousand votes threw the state to the plutocrats.
there were reasons the plutocrats’ stooges mailed ballots to dead people, people who no longer lived in the state and refused total and unrestricted access to the vote counting and refused to allow independent signature comparisons.