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Thursday, April 14, 2016

good citizen Bork

I don't  know that being able to impeach the president makes congress the highest power in the land.  And where is their power over the supreme court?  And even if they had some power to fire the supremes i don't know how that would make them the highest power.  I don't see the mechanism where one could appeal to the congress if one didn't want to obey an order from the prez, and certainly not the current congress which can't do anything but piss and moan. 

But now that I think about it, we do have an example of disobeying the prez and that is the Saturday Night Massacre.  Let's look at the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre

It's a little complicated but I think the gist is that Nixon ordered both Richardson and Ruckelshaus to fire Cox and they both refused and resigned and finally Bork, that paradigm of virtue, did the dirty deed for Tricky Dick because Dick promised him a job on the supremes.

I guess something like that would happen with Trump.  When informed that the CIA said they would not waterboard, Trump came back with something like if he gave them an order they would have to obey, if he yelled loud enough i guess.  He has since taken that back, but you never know when he is going to take back his take back. 

One wonders about the wonderland of a Trump presidency, who would he appoint as his cabinet?  Most likely a bunch of his yes men who would obey his orders, but could such a bunch of clowns ever get approved by congress?  Come to think of it, all his followers are as bull goose looney as His Trumpness.  Who is the most respected Trump guy right now?  I can only come up with Christie.  I think there might be a congressman or two, I don't think there is a senator.

I would like to hear a little more about this California investigation than just a sentence that they were found not guilty.  There is something fishy about being investigated by someone you ask to investigate you.  Who presided over the investigation, what were the charges, what was the final pronouncement?  I assume you are aware of all this, why have you not come forth with the details?  Why are you being so secretive?

I do remember being secretive was one of the things that people didn't like about the Birchers, though I'd have to say I don't think that's a crime.   I don't think secrecy was leveled against the HOTO THOTOM branch, but more against the inner sanctum.  But I don't know if there was anything to it, or if it was just a symptom of the times.  Now that I think about it weren't they alleging a lot of people were commies but not showing any evidence of that, hinting that they had some secret proof? 

Well that was Joe McCarthy wasn't it?  But weren't the Birchers tight with Tail Gunner Joe?

I too get bored with people who think like me.  Many of my liberal buddies watch MSNBC and proudly declare that they have never seen even a second of FOX.  Myself I have never seen a second of MSNBC and I am always dropping into O'Reilly's Pub and Hannity's Saloon, and that Megan Kelly runs a comparatively high-toned cocktail lounge. 

It seems to me that I vaguely remember the Impeach Earl Warren billboards, but maybe I am thinking of all the billboards about Jesus that we used to drive by on the way to visit Grandpa in Goshen Indiana. 

Wasn't it Ladybird Johnson who got rid of the billboards?  Nice not to have them but generally the interstates are so far out in the country there is nothing to see anywhere.  I guess we all know how successful Nancy's say no to drugs was.  I wonder what will be Bill's side project?

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