LBJ and impeachment

[trof]

There's an anecdotal story (may or may not be true, but nevertheless) that during a campaign in Texas Johnson told his campaign manager to accuse his opponent of being "queer".

"Lyndon, you KNOW he ain't queer."
"Hell, yeah. I KNOW that. I just want the sunovabitch to have to deny it!"

IF, and it's a very big IF, we took back the House and could bring articles of impeachment the senate would never convict.
But every repug there would have to go on record as voting not to convict the the most corrupt president we have ever had.

And the next time around...?
Elections have consequences.

[unblock]

1. A Pig fucker

He might not have said any of it, but the thing he might not have said was “a pig fucker”, not “queer”

[Hortensis]

2. This is no more a new idea than faking a throw to

third base is, Trof. But unlike faking a baseball throw, fake impeachment proceedings as a political maneuver are extremely unprincipled and the people don't like it. The voters punished the Republicans severely in the midterms after they did it.

That sounds like something he would say and a ruthless political ploy he would employ. This is what it was about for him, though:

Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man. - LBJ

[flotsam]

3. Hmmm...

“Christ, we can't get a way calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody's going to believe a thing like that.” “I know,” Johnson replied. “But let's make the sonofabitch deny it.” I read that excerpt from Hunter S. Thompson's Fear & Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72

[marble falls]

4. Time has a way of healing wounds and cooling passions. We better stay good and agitated ...

all the way into November and take it all.

[mcar]

5. Or

Our D House majority could spend their time holding hearings and investigations into the Dotard corruption, and passing legislation to, I don't know, help people.