Charles P. Pierce: The Crisis Is Upon Us

[babylonsister]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22165304/donald-trump-press-conference-vladimir-putin-renegade-presidency/

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

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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.

Three Republican senators moving across the aisle shuts everything down. It defangs Mitch McConnell. It would take considerable political courage for Sasse to do this, since he still has political ambitions, but Bob Corker and Jeff Flake both have announced their retirements, and they both have been quite critical about the administration’s antics. Those two literally have nothing to lose. Again, if there’s another constitutional method by which immediately to throw the brakes on the crazy train, I’m wide open to hearing it.

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But the president* continues to have his eye on the real crisis in American democracy.

"I think it's a disgrace we can't get Hillary Clinton's 33,000 e-mails. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."

Compared to the president* on Monday, Neville Chamberlain was Conan the Barbarian. In an unprecedented exercise in national self-abasement, the president* threw the American system of justice, the credibility of the intelligence community, and both Robert Mueller and Hillary Clinton into the woodchipper in order to keep faith with a former KGB thug who leads a failing kleptocracy who, just as an added fillip, and right at the end of their mutually disgraceful fandango, issued a non-denial denial of whether or not his government has compromising material on the president*. He's a laff riot, is our Vlad.

"I did hear these rumours. When President Trump visited Moscow back then, I didn't even know he was in Moscow... Nobody informed me that he was in Moscow... Please disregard these issues."

Putin finds the president* laughable. He has more reason than most to feel that way. He sees him as a particularly intriguing play-toy. Trump deserves Putin's contempt. In fact, these two men deserve each other. Unfortunately, nobody else on planet Earth does. And, oh, look, Jeff Flake is back on the electric Twitter machine, being outraged.

Link to tweet

The crisis, as I may have said, is upon us.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

1. I bet - Jeff Flake would vote NOT to impeach!

His talking is BS -

[Scurrilous]

2. K&R

[Trust Buster]

3. Putin is a transactional animal. He wouldn't hesitate to burn his orange asshole for the greater

Good. We know the Russians hacked into the voter databases in at least 23 states in 2016. If they repeat that on a larger scale in 2018, American society will crumble. The Russians can change one number of the social security numbers of thousands of registered democrats in key states thereby disqualifying them to vote. If this election is blatantly stolen, I believe American society will begin to crumble. I believe Don the Con just set the table for that today in Helsinki. This country has not been this vulnerable since the Cuban Missile Crisis. This time though, THE ENEMY IS FROM WITHIN !!!!!!!!

[Tipperary]

4. K and r.

I wonder if the wankmaggot has any idea what is happening here in the US today.