Pierce: The Crisis Is Upon Us
The Crisis Is Upon Us
There is only one constitutional method to stifle Donald Trump's renegade presidency*.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUL 16, 2018
...Hold me, Vlad. It’s been a tough week.
The day began in an almost unimaginable fashion, with the President* of the United States blaming an investigation of the ratfcking of an American election for the deterioration of a relationship with the country that paid for the ratfcking, and doing so before going into a one-on-one meeting with the head ratfcker his own self, and then following that up by blaming the ratfcking that helped make him president* on his predecessor, so he and his senior manager can have a good laugh.
(Here, from our Too Little, Too Damn Late File, is a Washington Post story from December of 2016 about how the Obama Administration tried to get the whole government on board with its attempt to deal with the ratfcking, only to have Mitch McConnell continue to be the worst American of the 21st Century: "The Obama administration has been debating for months how to respond to the alleged Russian intrusions, with White House officials concerned about escalating tensions with Moscow and being accused of trying to boost Clinton’s campaign. In September, during a secret briefing for congressional leaders, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voiced doubts about the veracity of the intelligence, according to officials present."
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It’s plain now that the Republicans are perfectly willing to put up with this administration*’s agenda, such as it is. Sasse is perfectly all right with all the environmental deregulation, and the ridiculous tax package that shoved even more of the country’s money upwards. He’s going to turn handsprings when Brett Cavanaugh arrives at the Supreme Court to turn the clock back to the 1890s on so many different issues, especially women’s reproductive freedoms. As long as all this is going on, all Ben Sasse (and people like him) are going to do is make brave noises and vote the way the White House wants them to do. And the country has to live with the policies while they get campaign commercials touting their independence.
The fact is that there is only one constitutional method by which this renegade presidency* can be stifled before the November midterm elections—and it needs to be reined in as quickly as possible. The only available option is to have two or three Republican senators announce that, hereafter, they will caucus and vote with the Democratic minority between now and November.
It is clear that nobody can control the president*. Impeachment has to begin in the House of Representatives, and, at the moment, the House is a barn full of maniacs and its speaker is an invertebrate life-form who can’t keep woodchucks from eating his car. The Democratic caucuses on Capitol Hill are very limited, institutionally, in what they can do. The people in general have to wait until this fall to make their feelings known, and that through a compromised system of national elections.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22165304/donald-trump-press-conference-vladimir-putin-renegade-presidency/
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Twitter is on fire with Dotard's treason.
"the House is a barn full of maniacs and its speaker is an invertebrate life-form who can’t keep woodchucks from eating his car. "
