So where in congress would you go if the prez gave you what you
considered to be an illegal order, the speaker of the house, the senate,
the vice prez, cause he presides over the senate, the Special Committee
for Folks Disobeying Presidential Orders, your local senator, your
local rep?
Right now I imagine the freedom caucus would welcome you with open arms
if you disobeyed anything Obama said. But their only power is to stop
anything from going through congress, they have no power to actually do
anything other than obfuscate.
The victims of the Saturday Night Massacre didn't go to congress. Of
course congress had a very itchy finger on the impeachment trigger,
remember even Republicans (back when republicans were really
republicans) were calling for Nixon to step down. I believe your man
Goldwater was among them.
So even you, who have been sort of bragging about this investigation as
proof that the Birchers were, well we don't even know that because we
don't know what the specific allegations were, don't know who in the
California legislature was running it, or when it happened or what the
findings were. So even the Birchers who were complaining about the big
blackout didn't know exactly what was being blacked out? How did you
ever even hear about it?
But again I don't personally think the Birchers did anything especially
bad. I think they tried to besmirch some public officials with the red
tar of comsymp, but public officials are big boys and used to being
smeared and I don't remember anybody going down because of the
Birchers, I imagine the inner sanctum guys were probably plotting
something, because isn't that the point of being in the inner sanctum,
but for the good folks in THOTO THOTOM it was more like whittling in
front of the courthouse or coffee at McDonalds. Did you drink tea at
your meetings?
First ladies have always had some little pet project. Michelle pushes healthy food, Laura used to wear that I'm with Stupid
t shirt, Hillary, I believe she dabbled in health care, Barbara Bush
was nice, Nancy ended drug use, Rosalind must have had some kind of
Christian thing, Betty had that dipsomaniac thing, Pat had that yellow
snow incident.
One winter morning, Richard Nixon looked out on the White House lawn and saw "Impeach Nixon" written in yellow across the snow. He quickly ... "You're not going to like this, sir, but the substance in which the message was written analyzed as Kissinger's urine." "I suspected as ... Out with it..." "Sir...it's in Pat's handwriting.".
I don't know if you heard that joke before. It's a little blue for The
Institute, but when I was going down the list of first ladies I knew i
had to include it.
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