Posted on 11/09/2008 9:59:40 AM PST by Winged Hussar
The insane emperor Caligula made his horse, Incitatus, a Roman consul. In 2008, the people of the United States elected Barack Obama and Joseph Biden. The Romans got the better of the two arrangements, because Caligula appointed the ENTIRE horse. Within 72 hours of his election, Barack Obama has already turned the nation's highest office and the leadership of the Free World into a carnival sideshow.
Obama began his career as President-Elect by mocking former First Lady Nancy Reagan, whom he said held seances in the White House. It is an unspoken custom of the Presidency that one does not belittle a predecessor, much less his wife, but Obama lost no time in making jokes at the expense of an 87 year-old lady who tended her husband through the ravages of Alzheimer's Disease...
He also created a Web site, Change.gov, which bears the title, "Office of the President Elect." The site uses the Great Seal of the United States minus the cluster of stars above the eagle's head. (It might, in fact, be illegal for him to use the entire Great Seal because he is not yet President). He has set up this government-hosted Web site as if it was his personal campaign site, complete with a litany of attacks on President Bush: the man who congratulated him on his election, and who has at least an informal duty to assist him during the transition period.
We hoped that Barack Obama would prove us wrong in our expectations... He has instead used the first three days of his new status as President-Elect to demonstrate the maturity of an adolescent with a tinfoil crown on his head, a narcissistic megalomaniac with delusions of Messiah-hood.
(Excerpt) Read more at israpundit.com ...
I would like one explanation from Obama that no one seems to be addressing. What did he mean when he said “We need a civilian arm, as big, as well funded and as well equiped as our regular military.” What would he do with this “cilivian military, who will they report to, what’s their purpose, how will it be funded, what authority over our citizens will they have? I don’t want a quick explanation, I want an explanation that goes into the deepest reasons for this. We need to know what he meant.
Question:
What offenses will cause a President or VP to be removed from office?
In: United States History
Answer:
An impeachable offense can be as nebulous as “He practices cronyism.” We can call this a misdemeanor. According to the Constitution, Article II, Section 4, “The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” President Gerald Ford was correct when he said in 1970 that, “An impeachable offense is whatever the majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at any given moment in its history.”
Good insults have a basis in fact. Nancy never held seances, that was Hillary.
Me thinks the horse shows best as how it will end.
You and me and at least half of the country!!!
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I have a feel that the “One” will screw up so big that there is no doubt he should be removed. He truly has no clue. His handlers are going to have to work overtime to keep the “One” and Biden from screwing things up publicly to the point were nothing can fix it other than removal.
This is one question that the New Republican leaders, if there are any, should ask him. Ask.....Demand that he explain this to the American people.
His two favorite "words."
Press conferences will be a laugh fest, with mostly touchy FEELY questions made by his adoring fans and those that are not in lock step with THE MESSIAH will be shunned at first and eventually banned altogether.
That's almost the entire MSM.
Two U.S. presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth chief executive, and William J. Clinton, the forty-second.
Johnson, a Southern Democrat who became president after Lincoln’s assassination, supported a mild policy of Reconstruction after the Civil War. The Radical Republicans in Congress were furious at his leniency toward ex-Confederates and obvious lack of concern for ex-slaves, demonstrated by his veto of civil rights bills and opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment. To protect Radical Republicans in Johnson’s administration and diminish the strength of the president, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in 1867, which prohibited the president from dismissing office holders without the Senate’s approval. A defiant Johnson tested the constitutionality of the Act by attempting to oust Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. His violation of the Act became the basis for impeachment in 1868. But the Senate was one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict, and Johnson was acquitted May 26, 1868.
My kids came across part of his press conference while flipping channels. Thy still laugh days later about a speech that sounds like, “Uhh...blah, blah, lah. uh....blah, blah, uhhh...”
Gotta love it!
Buffoon is fine with me, but maybe a flim flam title would be better for ZERO.
I have noticed an editorial change in the wording of Obama’s plan for America Serves. You can find it in his transition site...change.org.
Instead of using the word “require” in reference to the community service of middle school kids, high school kids and college students, the phrase “developing a plan” is now being used. There must have been some fall-out on this.
Also note, the tax credit is a new addition to the statement. The last time I checked this site was on Friday 11-07-08.
http://change.gov/americaserves/
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