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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-inevitability-of-impeachment_us_588e8d52e4b0b065cbbcd09f/ Reuters
Trump has been trying to govern by impulse, on whim, for personal retribution, for profit, by decree ― as if he had been elected dictator. It doesnt work, and the wheels are coming off the bus. After a week!
Impeachment is gaining ground because it is the only way to get him out, and because Republicans are already deserting this president in droves, and because the man is psychiatrically incapable of checking whether something is legal before he does it.
Impeachment is gaining ground because its so horribly clear that Trump is unfit for office. The grownups around Trump, even the most slavishly loyal ones, spend half their time trying to rein him in, but it cant be done.
They spend the other half fielding frantic calls from Republican chieftains, business elites and foreign leaders. Trump did what? Poor Reince Priebus has finally attained the pinnacle of power, and it cant be fun.
It is one thing to live in your own reality when you are a candidate and its just words. You can fool enough of the people enough of the time maybe even to get elected. But when you try to govern that way, there is a reality to realityand reality pushes back.
One by one, Trump has decreed impulsive orders, un-vetted by legal, policy, or political staff, much less by serious planning. Almost immediately he is forced to walk them back by a combination of political and legal pressureand by reality.
Unlike in the various dictatorships Trump admires, the complex skein of constitutional legal and political checks on tyranny in the United States are holdingjust barely at times, but they are holding. And the more reckless Trumps behavior, the stronger become the checks.
Only with his lunatic effort to selectively ban refugees (but not from terrorist-sending countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt where Trump has business interests) has Trump discovered that the American system has courts. It has courts. Imagine that.
The more unhinged he becomes, the less will conservative judges be the toadies to ordinary Republican policies that they too often have been. Anybody want to wager that the Supreme Court will be Trumps whore?
In the past week, Republicans from Mitch McConnell on down have tripped over each other rejecting his view of Putin. They have ridiculed his screwball claim of massive voter fraud.
They are running for cover on how to kill ObamaCare without killing patients or Republican re-election hopes. This is actually complicated, and nuance is not Trumps strong suit. Rep Tom McClintock of California spoke for many when he warned:
Wed better be sure that were prepared to live with the market weve created with repeal, said Rep. Tom McClintock. (R-Calif.)
Thats going to be called Trumpcare. Republicans will own that lock, stock and barrel, and well be judged in the election less than two years away.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, mocking Trumps own nutty tweeting habits, sent out a tweet calling a trade war with
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madokie
(51,076 posts)is nuttier than a squirrel turd
Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)I'll have to remember that!
madokie
(51,076 posts)I picked it up right here on these pages LOL
Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)And I needed the laugh, thanks!
OnDoutside
(19,957 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)and that's with no checks and balances and an approval rating among ordinary citizens that remained high since they were given bread and circuses and shielded from the news of his overspending on luxury and personal life that would have gagged his uncle Tiberius, at whose knee he learned to be a despot.
I hope we have enough vestiges of a decent system that we'll get rid of Orange Cal a lot sooner, plus the Breitbart asses he rode in on.
He is completely unfit. No other words are necessary.
blue-wave
(4,356 posts)the next in line after impeachment is just as bad and it will play into the religious right's theocratic goal. Sigh! Is it possible to keep impeaching down the line of succession until we reach someone who is reasonably sane? I know, it's not. Just hoping out loud. We are in a real stinking cesspool.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)He thinks all the president does is issue executive orders; laws be damned. The Republicans own this mess.
jeanmarc
(1,685 posts)The evangelicals get their choice at the Supreme Court vacancy and ram it through.
The pro death movement will not be satiated until that happens. So put on a happy face, GOP. Pretend crazy isn't crazy and continue to pretend.