[kearnyirish2]

“When the media start to point their fingers at him and chant “You’re Nixon,” he’s done.”

What does that mean, “he’s done”? He’s not done by a long shot; even if those that rule our airwaves allow some criticism of him, there is no legal mechanism to do anything to get rid of him. They have to get this into the dustbin of history in time for the mid-terms.

[stanne]

Midterms?

I see the tone as like when Chief Brody says to the Mayor, “Larry, the summer is over. You’re the mayor of “shark city”. These people think you want the beaches open.”

Eighteen mtts is a long time in politics, but I think they’ll avoid being seen with him, the truth, being unforgiving as it is.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, I wouldn't deny for a minute that he has a stranglehold on power and will be nearly impossible to dislodge formally. But I think what is done is the illusion, and without the illusion he's just another greasy political operator with a dwindling base. No more sanctimonious "we are the ones we've been waiting for". No more "hope and change" when it's the same forty-year-old crap in a new wrapper. Media adulation suddenly marginalized. Slogans treated with the cynicism they deserve. Most threatening of all, their control of the terms of debate shattered. And, as you point out, 2014 looming.

This is, in essence, the Clinton Gang versus Capone's Chicago boys, and BJ Billy has already been impeached once. It isn't unthinkable - impractical, maybe, but not unthinkable because they're thinking about it.