This was at Weasel Zippers... Weasel Meister | Saturday, July 30, 2011 @ 4:28 pm | | 38 Comments » As the US lunges toward default and O threatens to cut off Social Security checks, Man-Child President keeps his priorities straight: All engines are go for $35,800-per-couple birthday bash... (ABC News) — The White House remains confident that a deal to raise the debt ceiling will be reached by next Tuesday, so much so, that the president is still scheduled to spend next Wednesday in Chicago, celebrating his 50th birthday at two DNC events. “We’re confident that this will be resolved. Obviously, if it’s not, we’ll address the schedule accordingly,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today. The president, whose actual birthday is next Thursday, August 4th, will not, however, be spending the night in his hometown. For now, he is set to return to the White House Wednesday evening. “You know that we’ve adjusted our schedule throughout this process as necessary. But we believe Congress will act, do the responsible thing, pass bipartisan legislation that gets to the president’s desk and is signed into law, so that we can lift this cloud that’s hanging over our economy,” Carney said. So far, the president has no other events scheduled for next week.
Three years ago, the Democrats were holding gigantic, fascist rallies in football stadiums, like Nuremberg in Denver: But Obama, like Carter, has proved that buying votes is a strategy for winning elections; not running an economy.
I have a question. Has any president every been brought up for impeachment based on charges that he was simply incapable of doing his job?
:idea: re: incompetent presidents Never...although we've had a few who deserved it; Pierce, Buchanan and Carter come to mind. The impeachment process is the least effective section of the Constitution. It's been used three times and all three times it was misused. Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton were impeached by the House of Representatives and in all three cases, the Congress was controlled by the opposition political party. There has never been a case where a president was impeached by his own party and there never will be. The entire process is flawed. NONE of these impeachments were for valid, legal reasons so important that an election of the whole nation should have been overturned. Clinton's impeachment was probably the last one we will ever see. Despite the fact that he later pleaded guilty to multiple felonies in order to avoid prison, EVERY Democrat voted for his innocence at every step of the process. They knew he was guilty and they didn't care. Let's hope that someday the Constitution is amended to replace impeachment with a national recall election where the people themselves can vote to undo a mistake...but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that one.
You sure know how to smoke me out of the woodwork: http://mediamatters.org/research/200411220006 "Senate acquitted Clinton on both articles of impeachment, one of which was perjury. In order for a lie under oath to amount to perjury -- as Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) explained on the floor of the Senate on February 12, 1999 -- it must be "material" to the underlying case. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that Clinton's deposition in the Monica Lewinsky case was immaterial to the sexual harassment suit that Paula Jones brought against Clinton." "On the November 4, 1998, edition of CNN's Larry King Live when King confronted Bennett with exit polling from the 1998 elections that showed that "only 39 percent of the voters want the impeachment hearings to even continue; 58 percent say end them," To revisit......Clinton was dogged by bloodthirsty GOP hounds who felt they could nail his political ass and most importantly that of his party and they tried mightily. In the process they took American politics down to the depths......the depths of which we have not really recovered from as evidenced by the contentious......self-important....and opposition loathing Congress now in session. Nice job assholes.
.....as usual with the left, there is no personal accountability, it's always somebody else's fault......unfortunately, it also appears to be where we are as a society with devastating and very sad effect......
All Clinton ever had to do was tell the truth. Men would have forgiven him a symbolic high five and women would have loved that bad boy more than they already did. But he had to lie and he chose to do it under oath. That called into question all kinds of side issues, i.e. if he would lie about that what else would he lie about? and Does this kind of recklessness begin to manifest national security implications? Personal responsibility? Your average liberal has no concept of that.
....because he was being asked about an incident that legally had no bearing on the Paula Jones case....which in itself was a political sham as well. Linda Tripp was a political fall guy like no other....a sacrficial lamb that I doubt even those on the right liked very well. There was a reason 58% said to let the whole damned thing die.
Of course it was sham. I mean, who looks for character in their presidents these days? Just keep those entitlement checks coming.
My memory must be faulty. I don't ever recall Nixon actually being impeached. I do recall that he resigned after being told he would not be protected by partisan politics and that Republicans would vote according to the evidence. Clinton on the other hand was guilty of the same offenses that Nixon was ie. obstruction of justice and covering up. The difference of course is that Democrats on a jury will not vote the evidence but provide political cover for a serial perjurer. Clinton literally had to plea bargain to get out of office without charges afterward. He gave up his law license was going to be pulled. The Arkansas Bar apparently didn't give a crap about public opinion polls. Which of course leads us back to public opinion about the health care bill. Polls only count when Dems want them to.
re: Nixon Mike is kinda correct. The House Committee voted three articles of impeachment and the president resigned before the full House of Representatives had a chance to vote. He resigned when Republican leaders informed him that they would not provide cover for him. re: Dave's posts I'm not sure that I understand his point. Clinton's impeachment was wrong. So was Nixon's and so was Andrew Johnson's. I said that. All three men violated the law, and obstructed justice; but I just don't believe that you should overturn an election for that. Our current president and Attorney General are plumbing new depths of legal depravity to set the bar even lower. (Did you like my pun?) ("Set the bar even lower.") Impeachment can't be part of a fair system of justice when it's only used as a political device, instead of it's intended use as a lever to balance power between the three branches of government.
Judgement, character, to include but not limited to morality and honesty, leadership ...... the list is a long one with this guy.......but of course it was not his fault.
wait wait wait wait stop Clinton lied about having extra-marital affairs while in office using all of the power and resources he had at his disposal to cover it up. That's a fact. So how is his lying about that not material or relevant to the Paula Jones sexual harassment trial. More info: Again, ask yourself.. how is his testimony not relevant?
For Paula Jones to be able to bring such a suit to a sitting president speaks volumes about her intentions and the intentions of those behind her. Clinton may have been a scalwag....a skirt chaser but his biggest fault was opening himself up to the derision of his biggest political enemies and Kenneth Starr. All in all a very ugly incident in history for both parties and it is what I believe to be contributing heavily to the vitriole and disharmony that rules our useless Congress.
Clinton could have settled the Jones suit early on. Unfortunately the White House she-bitch wouldn't go along with the offer. So what happens to someone who completely fails on the health care reform Clinton wanted, and gives absolutely idiotic legal advice about a sexual harrassment suit against her husband? Why millions of Democrats vote for her in presidential primaries.