Gephardt Issues Order Making Himself President

scrappleface ^ | June 24, 2003 | Scott Ott

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

Gephardt Issues Order Making Himself President

(2003-06-23) -- Just a day after announcing that he would use executive orders to overturn Supreme Court decisions, Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-MO, announced today that he has appointed himself President of the United States, effective immediately.

"I have duly sworn myself in as president," he said. "Instead of having the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court administer the oath of office, I just issued an executive order effective retroactively in advance."

President Gephardt has already issued an executive order making it illegal to "challenge the constitutionality of my reign as president."

[Registered]

He doesn't have eyebrows you knucklehead.

[Sir Gawain]

Breaking news satire? I couldn't get away with that. Interesting that you can.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[johnb838]

I will Raise Your TAXES!

[Revolting cat!]

Finally, I say! Bravo! All our troubles are over!

[Sabertooth]

Hey, I don't have knuckles. Or opposable thumbs.

[Dog]

I hear Bill Clinton loves to pay taxes....I'm going to write him and ask him to pay mine.

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

June 23, 2003

EUGENE VOLOKH BLOGS A BIZARRE QUOTE FROM DICK GEPHARDT about overturning the Supreme Court via Executive Order. I saw the Fox story that Eugene links and decided -- as he suspects -- that it had to be a misquote. But CNN has it, too. Here it is:

When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day.

I agree with Eugene that if Gephardt meant this as written he has no business running for President -- but I still find it hard to believe that Gephardt would say something so dumb.

UPDATE: Eugene now has a link to the C-SPAN video and at about 45:40 Gephardt says exactly what's quoted up above, and the context is exactly as represented. Sheesh. That's absolutely pathetic. Either (1) Gephardt, despite all his years in Congress, has still failed to learn that you can't overturn a Constitutional decision by the Supreme Court with an executive order; or (2) Gephardt was in Full Pander Mode and hoped his audience wouldn't know better. Neither speaks very well for him.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at June 23, 2003 04:53 PM

http://www.instapundit.com/archives/010248.php

I heard him say it on Fox News myself this morning. It just had to have a thread and anyone dumb enough to think they can simply overrule the Supreme Court by a stroke of the pen deserves to be riduculed to the extreme.

Gephardt's comments should be on every breaking news outlet around, but as far as I know, it has only made Fox and Free Republic. I hope to be corrected on this as the day goes on.

[Teacup]

This guy is spooky. Look, E.T. is calling home. Doesn't he look like E.T.?

[Fiddlstix]

The only thing Gephardt will ever be president of is [Comment Censored]

[countrydummy]

I love it when dems show how dumb they really are! This just goes to show that power is what they are all about!

[Veracious Poet]

Wouldn't surprise me if this is true...

Just as ridiculous (and unconstitutional BTW) as executive orders issued by REAL presidents.

Have fun laughing at Socialist Party A, personally I find both Party A & B pretty ludicrous.

[Prodigal Son]

"When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day," said Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri.

I can hardly believe he said that... I thought it was a joke. Wow, what a stupid thing to say...

[savedbygrace]

This is the result of the enormous pressure of not having eyebrows.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Maybe Gephardt should consider running for president of the South Pole where his chances of winning are slightly better. Since his personality is as cold as ice and his ideas as shallow as a penguin's, he'd fit right in.

[scan58]

Yes, it is interesting. I don't think they've caught on, yet, though.

[gridlock]

Hey Reg, surely you can do something with those letters behind him. Something just leaps to mind...

[Theodore R.]

What do the scholars in St. Louis see in him that we can't quite figure out?

[Sir Gawain]

I don't think you've caught on.

[Sloth]

Bwahahahaha....