Posted on 01/10/2017 10:07:01 AM PST by C19fan
Donald Trump is a one-man basket of deplorables. He is a braggart and a liar. He is a bully and a demagogue. He is an ignoramus and a deadbeat, a chiseler and either a sincere racist or an insincere one, and his love for himself is matched only by my loathing of him. He is about to be president of the United States. A constitutional coup may be in the offing.
Since winning the election, Trump has not moderated his behavior. He still behaves like a brat — his childish tweet zinging Arnold Schwarzenegger for failing to get Trumpian ratings on “The New Celebrity Apprentice” being the most amusing example. Many of the others were just plain lies, the most serious being his earlier troubling statements regarding Russian efforts to affect the election. As always, Trump made this about himself — not, as it should be, about a foreign power meddling in our democracy.
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Best gif. !
Vote in 2020 and "hope for change".
(sarcasm)
Ooooo, I can smell the decay of Cohen’s brain and the festering pile of Washington Compost from here! Who gives a flying fig about the manic ruminations of a libtard? Can you believe this guy would prefer the insane corrupt Hillary and the crew SHE would have brought in to a rational man who loves his country? Just like a moth to a flame.
That poor guy is unhinged. He needs drugs and nice long 8 year rest.
Rickie looks just like the Doosh I expected!
How to remove Trump from office?
Just wait.
He’ll be out in 8 years. ;)
Sounds like he’s already on a heavy dose of medical marijuana.
Trump ‘zinging’ Arnold probably increased his ratings next show
This is so great!. God bless America!!!
His cabinet has to declare him unfit, and Congress has to concur. That's it.I post this scenario every now and then. It's a constitutional coup d'etat.
Another Alternative to Impeachment.
Here is a perfectly constitutionally legal form of coup d'etat that can be used to oust Obama without going through a nasty impeachment process.
Imagine the following scenario.
Amendment 25 Section 4Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
1. Joe Biden organizes the principle Cabinet members to side with him and declares Obama to be unable to discharge his duties as president. He submits this signed declaration to Orrin Hatch and Paul Ryan and assumes the Presidency.
1a. As an interesting variation, "either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide" suggests that Congress can pass a law naming another body besides the Cabinet that can side with the Vice President. What if Congress were to pass a law allowing, say, a body of NYT and WaPo editors, ABC-NBC-CBS-CNN-MSNBC journalists, and college deans - a totally unelected body of people - to legally declare the president incapable of discharging his duties? What if Biden gets these "intellectual elites" to side with him to oust Obama?2. Obama then fights back by sending a letter to Hatch and Ryan stating that he is not incapable of discharging his duties, and he declares that he has resumed the Presidency.
3. Biden then gets his supporting body to redeclare within four days that Obama is still unfit for office.
4. Once Biden redeclares that Obama is unfit, Congress must then assemble within 48 hours if in session, or within 20 days if in recess, and vote to accept Biden's declaration by 2/3rds vote, or to accept Obama's declaration that he is still fit for office.
5. Congress sides with Biden and declares Obama to no longer be President.
6. Joe Biden takes over as acting President of the United States.
Hey, I can fantasize, can't I? The question now is whether Obama's academia sidekicks in the Cabinet support the country they were raised in, or if they will follow Obama over the cliff?
-PJ
Wait four years, vote again, hope for the best. That's the only way I know.
I hope his underwear gets so twisted that his voice becomes permanently highly-pitched...
This is an odd article. It says “not the uncontestably false news that the Russians were spreading”...
uh, last I heard the accusation (whether true or not) is that the Russians hacked real, legit emails from the DNC.
This assertion of “false news” from the Russian is just more “fake news” from the leftist US journalists
And Obama did? BWAHAHAHA!
wasington (brennan/bezos blog) post... cia contractor.... so who believes anything printed in the wapo.... breannan’s cia newspaper... fronted by bezos and flunkies ...
it reeks of the “fake news” stench...
bezos paid $300 millionfor the rag and brennan cover it with a $600 million cia contract... sweeeeeet
I guess zero mental fitness is required to be a Washington Post writer.
Richard Cohen is a PUTZ.
He learned well, but he is still a little bit of a prankster and a brat.
So what? He has fun and he loves life and his work.
He's authentic and extremely effective at everything he undertakes.
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