Posted on 12/04/2022 11:38:29 AM PST by Reno89519
You can certainly call for them to resign but I doubt they would acquiesce.
Not until there is a Republican Speaker of the House.
Without a groundwell of support, you are correct. But we can see evidence throughout history where the calls wear down folks and they eventually resign. The challenge is whether there is enough sustained anger to succeed.
You are missing an important point.
If they both resigned, then the Speaker of the House becomes president. If these resignations happened now, then Nancy Pelosi would be president. Then she would nominate a replacement vice-president, to be confirmed by the vote of House and Senate.
To hell with having them resign. Dump them as free agents.
We can call until we are blue in our faces, but what if they lie down and play dead? Will we continue to call?
Why?
Who are the replacements?
You can ask them all you want, but the chances of them agreeing to such a thing is zero.
And as I wrote, in January with a Republican House. McCarthy might find himself as president or residing over the constitutional issue AFTER Pelosi is gone. (If Pelosi were smart, she’s got a month to pull it off and move into the White House.)
Who are the replacements? Maybe Trump if Republicans could today agree on that.
There is a big point being missed here.
If both president and vice-president resigned, and both offices are vacant, then the Speaker of the House becomes president. That person would appoint a replacement vice-president, to be confirmed by vote of the House and Senate.
This thread is peak FR delusional.
You could try it, but expect a tax audit.
We do? Nixon only resigned because he lost the support of the Republican leadership at the time.
If you imagine that Biden and/or Harris would be "worn down" by a handful of naive, disgruntled "conservatives" calling for their resignation, well, I'd have wonder what you're smoking.
With all due respect, people need to wake the eff' up and understand -- and accept -- the world in which they're actually living nowadays. Sheesh.
Glendower: “I can summon spirits from the vasty deep!”
Hotspur: “Aye, so can I, so can any man. But will they come when you do call them?”
Sure. Why not?
HEY! BIDEN AND HARRIS! RESIGN! TODAY!
Okay. Now what?
I guess it’s ok to laugh once in a while.
I doubt that Biden would ever resign willingly, even if there were a groundswell from the people. Slow joe thinks he’s doing a great job!
Dunning-Kruger effect is in play here. The worst performers always think they’re doing the best job. That describes Biden to a T, don’t you think? Pair that with Biden’s obvious narcissism, and it would take either a 25th Amendment proceeding, an impeachment, or his death (preferably of natural causes, of course) to remove him.
At best it would be political theater that would get ignored.
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