Posted on 07/06/2024 9:44:24 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As the belief that Joe Biden is fully equipped to be president dissolves like mist on a Delaware morning, some of his defenders have fallen back on the idea that the American presidency is not really a man but a team.
“I would take Joe Biden on his worst day at age 86 — so long as he has people around him like Avril Haines, Samantha Power, Gina Raimondo supporting him — over Donald Trump any day,” a former homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, said on MSNBC a few days ago. Don’t think of this as the Biden presidency, in other words; think of it as the Biden-Raimondo-Haines-Power presidency (tack on a dozen more names if you like), in which if the central pillar weakens, the support structure can still hold things up.
From there, you could take the relatively mild position that one lesson of both the Biden years and Trump’s first term is that the executive branch can often work around a president who isn’t quite up to the demands of the job. Or you could take the sweeping position that the government as a corporate entity almost always works independently of the occupant of the Oval Office and so an increasingly incapacitated chief executive who does what the process tells him to do would just be business as usual for the ship of state.
The mild position clearly has some truth to it: The everyday functioning of the executive branch does seem more independent of the president’s capacities than it appeared to be before January 2017. I also think the sweeping argument gets at an important reality of governmental power: Conservatives especially have long understood the limited ability of presidents to fully impose their authority on the bureaucracy they nominally lead.
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I recall some stupid Democrats tried that once. It did not turn out well.
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behold the bad faith mental gymnastic employees here.
they take a truism that a president has a cabinet team
i.e. a Presidency
then insist that means there isn't actually such thing as a singular President.
A presidency without a President ? that my freinds is the classis con job known as bait and swith .
nice try comrades SPIT
HA HA HA HA
A presidency without a President ?
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that my freinds is the classis con job
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known as bait and switch .
nice try comrades
Only if he MAGA.
And their next question will be, does America even need to be independent?
Apparently not; we haven’t had one since 2021.
Democracy dies with the media.
WHO?
Oh, Jeh Johnson. Never mind.
That explains our foreign policy in a nutshell.
Gee we don’t know NYT editorial board. What is your goal here? To incite anxiety, discord, division?
Why don’t you consult the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. constitution
And if you have a better idea start your own country. Appeal to congress or go to some island.
Whose going to stop them this time? Biden and his band of merry woke gay infantry?
The sorts that look like the dregs of society?
Avril Lavigne, Samantha Stevens, and Gina Carano?!
A Zoom call from Lloyd Austin.
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They lied and lied and presented the fantasy that Biden was smart as a whip and taking the country in the right direction - his polls tanked - and now they want you to believe he was a great President for 3.5 years.
Biden has been cognitively compromised for five years, but the Polls caught up and his Media is moving on to the next fable.
This rabble is from folks who have absolutely NO understanding of the United States of America or our Constitution.
..because it is no longer taught.
All kids hear now is how awful this country is..
And therein lies the rub with this lunacy.
“What we don’t need are dishonest, unholy people obtaining political power.“
- of which, we have 535 in congress and tens of thousands in all the government agencies and bureaucracies they’ve created in order to maintain their corrupt power. It’s sewn up for them now. “… the people?!?… WHAT people??…”
It would be Red States.
I stated my opinion and that’s it. Have a good day.
In L. Neil Smith’s North American Confederacy alt-history novels, None of the Above wins the presidency in 1968, 2000, and 2004, then wins President-for-Life in 2008.
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