Posted on 07/15/2014 10:34:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sarah Palin's call for the impeachment of President Obama makes no sense. What does the lady want -- a national street fight? But a fetching question arises from her enterprise: Could we live for two years under a President Joe Biden? Would it be worse than now? Maybe not.
It has come to this, in the second year of the second term of Barack Obama. Our present chief executive makes Joe Biden look good -- a prospect that once seemed as unlikely as a free Clinton speech. Joe Biden, without a fresh political perspective to his name -- but with a head of nicely transplanted hair and a mouthful of nicely capped teeth -- might lead the country more intelligently than ...
Wait! That assumes someone is leading it now, which, if it happens to be so, surely looks otherwise.
According to Ms. Palin, "If Congress refuses to use the power the Constitution gives it (to impeach and try a president), Barack Obama will continue to rule however he wants." The unproven assumption is that he "rules" right now -- a proposition distinct from his increasingly frequent use of executive privilege to alter acts of Congress. In fact, it's becoming hard to tell whether we still have a president. We have in the White House a pool player, a jokester, a golfer, a fist-bumper, a line-crasher at Franklin's barbecue joint in Austin. We have a fluent dispenser of wisecracks -- "So sue me," etc. -- and insults. What we seem not to have is a president who has, first, graspable policies, domestic and foreign, and, second, the will and wiliness to implement them.
One isn't altogether sure -- and it's a horrendous confession -- that Joe Biden couldn't do better. At the very least he might be paying attention to the partial collapse of American policy at our southern border and in the Middle East. You kind of took for granted in older times a kind of maturity at the Oval Office level of affairs. Obama's demonstrated callowness as threats pop up everywhere suggests that not only was he unready for prime time in 2008 but that he doesn't understand the job. He really seems not to know what is expected of a Chief Magistrate, as Alexander Hamilton, in the Federalist Papers, called the occupant of the office.
Obama's capers bring into focus other sensations and understandings besides Biden-philia. One is the gravity of the whole political enterprise -- a point hard to discern in an age that views politics as TV entertainment or a means of personal gain. Politics harms or helps, one or the other: better the first than the second, clearly. In any case it's no charade, no fist-bump.
Consider, additionally, that the preference for small and sensible, rather than big and meddlesome, government can lead to denigration of the whole idea that there needs to be government. There needs to be -- that's as plain as day, even in the age of Obamacare. Thus government has to be good.
Under this heading, Hamilton, in Federalist No. 70, had a word for the 44th president: "A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad government." Bad and costly and dangerous, one could add, these two and a quarter centuries later.
It's no late-night laugh line, in other words, no Bill O'Reilly or Rosie O'Donnell glibbery, when the president can't seem to get his act together -- and when thoughts of "Hail to the Chief," played for Joe Biden, lighten the heart immeasurably.
The founding fathers, wise men as they were, schooled in every virtue, gave to the future the best form of government they could devise. There was no more they could do. Everything from that point depended on people yet unborn, and on the choices those people would make. That's where we seem to be now as a nation -- reassessing some of those choices, and chewing our nails a bit as we do so.
No impeachment. It would just pull all the low information voters together.
Now the Elizabeth Warren people will have to go after Biden.
Biden may be bad news, but he's nowhere near as focused or committed to bringing down America as Obama is.
The Roman emperor Caligula installed his horse in the Roman Senate. Today we have a smartass in the executive office. I suppose a dumbass couldn’t be much worse.
Exactly.. do not let the MenSeekingMen press Republicans into doing this until AFTER Nov. 4. Don’t even get them on the record.
I want zero impeached and exiled to the ISS but I also want as much of the Senate as we can get.
The RATS are pleading for us to throw them in that briar patch!
We can wait another 3.5 months to start proceedings, we’ve waited almost 6 years.
“Biden may be bad news, tu he’s nowhere near as focused or committed to bringing down America as Obama is.”
And that might just be what the people pulling the strings would like us to think.
IMHO
You do what's right. You don't go around like the GOPe wringing your hands about the "political fallout" from doing the right thing. You do the right thing, the best results will follow.
Obama’s strategy of choosing Biden for his VP was narcissistic genius. It gives America the choice between Obama and a blithering idiot. Which is worse? Is there any real difference?
Impeachment doesn’t mean Biden would become President!
As the Vice President would say “there are 3 words that recommend against impeachment....Joe Biden”
We already have an ass clown in office. We don’t need another.
“Biden may be bad news, but he’s nowhere near as focused “
Bwaaaa! Bite Me focused at all is a wild overstatement!
We have a JACKASS in the White House.
The standard line is "he doesn't know what he's doing and "he just keep screwing things up." But Obama doesn't care what others think of him and he doesn't care if things get screwed up. The more screwed up, the better for him. He's not adept at a lot of things but the guy is a born "Community Organizer" and he's unconstitutionally doing it on a national scale.
He's CONSTANTLY promoting his unconstitutional agenda one way or the other, "lame duck" or not. There's been nobody like him except maybe FDR and Reagan (who used the same focus and skills but for freedom and less government). That's why he needs to be removed from office
Talking about impeaching Obama is as nonsensical as speculating about the cotton crop in Montana or the election of a conservative evangelical to the mayor’s office in San Francisco. It is not going to happen, even if the Republicans won all the Senate seats in contention and Boehner and McConnell suddenly developed spines. You need 67 votes to convict if Obama were impeached by the House.
Pop,
I was referring to Biden being “focused.” His brain is incapable of “focus.”
OK, got it. Yes, that’s why people shouldn’t worry about impeaching Obama becasue of Biden.
Having a bad day? Please don’t put words in my mouth. I’m 100% for impeaching obama. If we can get the Senate, Biden would probably be easier to control/moderate than obama. Joe is a dimwit.
“You do what’s right. You don’t go around like the GOPe wringing your hands about the “political fallout” from doing the right thing. You do the right thing, the best results will follow.”
That’s what I keep saying too — Congress needs to do what’s right for the country. The time for action has come, as distasteful as it may be.
Congress has the responsibility to impeach this president, if only for what’s happening at the border, which the paper trail proves was planned by his administration months in advance. That’s on top of his growing list of intentional mismanagement. And it’s not that he’s inept — that’s just a polite excuse for lowered expectations. Nope, he’s doing it all on purpose to drive this country down, because he is a globalist, a socialist, and a vengeful black nationalist, and he hates everything America stands for.
I’m also tired of the establishment GOP bleating that impeachment would set a bad precedent, we have to go along to get along, baah baah baah. Stick it in the same hole where your Ivy League diplomas belong, because that’s all they’re worth.
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