Nope. If they sucked they’d be good for something.
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Totally possible. The establishment Dems seem to have been doing everything possible to avoid learning from their mistakes, and to blame everyone except themselves for their failures. They could totally fuck it up again.
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It’s amazing how Goebbels 2.0 has managed to stay in the shadows
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Sad but true. Pelosi has promised to cripple anything the Democrats might do to advance their agenda by re-embracing pay-go.
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Tomorrow’s news cycle is going to be exciting, with lots of talking head speculating over whether Trump can compel the Times to out their source.
Liberals: Nope
Conservatives: Yep
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That’s brilliant. The Queen of Hearts may be the best literary clone of Trump that I’ve heard. And he already had a playing card motif going with the name Trump. And it’s croquet instead of golf. I see him also as the emperor from the Emperor’s New clothes, but the Queen of Hearts is hard to unsee.
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If its as bad as the writer says, and I have no doubt that it is, then the GOP should be getting rid of this Mother F-cker. But they are not - so they carry the blame.
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This is also hard to unsee.
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As a survivor of the Bowling Green Massacre, I approve this message.
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Ehhh - no. Gonna call BS on this one.
Also no matter who is in office, you don’t want a coup.
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The cat knows what’s up.
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The author of the anonymous op-ed is hoping to vindicate the reputation of like-minded senior Trump staffers. See, we only look complicit! Actually, we’re the real heroes of the story.
Nope. This is all CYA of someone who doesn’t have enough integrity to quit and thinks doing his job badly excuses being part of a flaming dumpster fire of a presidency.
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Seconded. The bit about “some aides have been cast as villains…”
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Also known as “Pulling an Albert Speer”.
Supporting all the atrocities and horrific behavior of the leader, but playing the “protesting resister” after arrest and trial.
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I would not Fuck Pence with someone else’s…
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Jake Tapper just* used the old horror story the call is coming from inside the house trope.
LOL!
*- well, within the last hour or so
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So, resurrecting an account here because my old one was banned for not being active (had some issues with the email and just fixed them) but that’s an aside.
Here’s the problem with the 25th amendment.
It requires the cabinet sure, as everyone’s seen on TV. A majority agree that the president’s incompetent and sign the note. Which doesn’t immediately take effect. It has to be delivered to the Senate Pro Tem and the Speaker of the House first. THEN the Veep immediately takes effect.
That’s the part you see on TV.
The next part is one that nobody ever does on TV shows 
The president sends a letter back to the senate pro tem and the speaker of the house. Immediately the Veep no longer has those powers and they transfer back to the President.
The veep and cabinet then have four days to send ANOTHER letter to the Senate pro tem and speaker of the house. And if they do, the entire congress will decide the matter. At that point, the congress must decide within 21 days (from the first letter), that the president is unable to do the duty… . by a 2/3rds majority. In both houses.
Impeachment takes a majority of the house and 2/3rds in the senate. It’s highly unlikely.
This would take 2/3rds of the house and 2/3rds of the senate. Why would this be more likely?
All this would do if the president is unwilling to be removed this way is make the republicans look bad, and then fail to do anything.
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I’m pretty sure they did exactly this on West Wing. (Granted, there was no VP at the time and it was the president himself invoking the 25th.)
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Wait I thought I had misremembered…
That was Bartlett invoking the third clause though, I think.
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