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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Arrogant stupidity runs strong in Manhattan.
There’s enough spin in this story to induce vertigo.
Have a politburo instead, with a chairman, who sends anyone who crosses him to Alaska for hard labor. Yes. That would be perrrrfect./s
Pray for revival in America.
“ When Trump wins…”
The next 4-5 months could be the most intense the world has seen for a long time, especially since they’ve brain washed their worshipers into believing Trump is “literally Hitler”, and there nothing should be off the table to stop him, and US.
Maybe because they don't know the difference between "proscribe" and "prescribe"?
There is absolutely, positively no limit to the depths of depravity, illogic, and just plain slime that those in the left will descend to. And the spearhead of slime is the journalists. You know, the folks who failed their “studies” exams and had to take a subject requiring even less ability.
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Right...the bureaucracy RULES!!!
“Does America Need a President?”
Yes, but not a King Joe.
YES, and whoever it is MUST BE ABLE TO BALANCE A FRICKING CHECKING ACCOUNT !!!
The rest of the plan should be very close to what President Donald J. Trump does to get the rest of the World to pay their fair share without the United States providing the money to do so.
The People need to be sure to never let even one more deep stater or demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatraper get into the Office !!!
You’re right. And there aren’t enough of them. They’re outnumbered.
And we can’t forget County Sheriffs. We know which side most will be on. And they can deputize.
"It doesn't matter if Biden is riddled with dementia and lying on his death bed, he's not running anything as it is! He's got a team of professionals who are making all of the executive decisions. Let them do their jobs!"
With a team approach to the presidency, impeachments would impeach all of the team!
Bernie was the first to come up with that idea - an idea THAT'S NOT in the Constitution.
Like most left wing extremists who 'cry for the great Constitution' when it comes right down to it, they don't support any of the ideas in it.
Sorry liberal traitors - that's NOT our system - we elect a President.
What kind of an idiot would ask a question like that, other that a leftist activist bent on destroying our Constitution?
Jeh Johnson. Spit.
His momma couldn’t spell “Jay.”
An oligarchy is working just fine for the dems...
A communist harpy politburo
........ Ya .... Well it's kinda one of those pesky little requirements laid out in the Constitution. Perhaps the American People need to do a little more soul searching and reasearch into the type of people that are installed as candidates and elected to the Presidency.
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