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14. don't forget Kavanaugh

Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:56 AM

Sep 2018

SCOTUS is a big reason GOPers have gone to such great lengths to normalize that thing in the White House.

To maintain power and the most favorable position at the trough, they need to make the laws, execute the laws, and interpret the laws. All three branches must be subverted. Pence doesn't carry the foaming-at-the-mouth portion of voters. They need their figurehead.

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The largest and most dangerous cover-up in history is happening right now... [View all] cynatnite Sep 2018 OP

Yes, it is very dangerous. FM123 Sep 2018 #1

I just posted this article. Pacifist Patriot Sep 2018 #2

The Frum article from The Atlantic as well exboyfil Sep 2018 #8

The cabinet members that can invoke the 25th amendment as well as the repug-controlled ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #32

They know he is a traitor. Deb Sep 2018 #3

Exactly Right. Zoonart Sep 2018 #4

Isn't that exactly what happened when Reagan has Alzheimer's or when Cheney was calling the shots FSogol Sep 2018 #5

Yes and Yes. Zoonart Sep 2018 #6

Great quote. SMoss Sep 2018 #16

Thanks, Moss. Zoonart Sep 2018 #22

Yes, but I think this is a much worse situation... cynatnite Sep 2018 #7

...or Woodrow Wilson's stroke. lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #12

But that was prior to the 25th admendment. There was no procedure to deal with it in Wilson's time. FSogol Sep 2018 #38

Yeah; 25th was written because of Wilson, if I recall correctly. lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #39

JFK appalachiablue Sep 2018 #50

Oh wow, great educational stuff! lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #55

My thoughts exactly! Wawannabe Sep 2018 #43

That's what I'm saying. blueinredohio Sep 2018 #54

He wasn't elected. llmart Sep 2018 #11

Russians are laughing their asses off. pangaia Sep 2018 #26

Yep. Zoonart Sep 2018 #28

+1000 smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #56

Anyone ready for a Parliamentary constitution? exboyfil Sep 2018 #9

Not a safe time to mess with the Constitution. I have plenty of complaints about it too, lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #15

OMG watoos Sep 2018 #17

I love that visual! Blue_playwright Sep 2018 #25

Yes.. but not now.. defacto7 Sep 2018 #52

The Republicans are complicit in this Jarqui Sep 2018 #10

Yes, except it's not even "party first" any more FakeNoose Sep 2018 #13

or is it? bdamomma Sep 2018 #44

don't forget Kavanaugh Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2018 #14

Kavanaugh on the SC is terrifying watoos Sep 2018 #21

Trump was always going to outsource the Presidency anyway... HipChick Sep 2018 #18

It's not like he hired qualified people - and I don't mean that sarcastically hopeforchange2008 Sep 2018 #19

And when things go terribly, catastrophically wrong Harker Sep 2018 #29

The pendulum swings both ways, 2016 coup now a 2018 counter coup. gordianot Sep 2018 #20

I see no counter coup from the right. watoos Sep 2018 #23

You make a good point. Blue_playwright Sep 2018 #27

Trump is easily played, if I were him I would not trust Graham or Pence. gordianot Sep 2018 #33

I find no comfort in the thought that he is being contained The Liberal Lion Sep 2018 #24

Why did they write the OP ed? flibbitygiblets Sep 2018 #30

It's not comforting...but, it's good that they recognize that the GOP are not doing their jobs. Texin Sep 2018 #31

Republican's don't give a damn yuiyoshida Sep 2018 #34

Thank You GOP dlk Sep 2018 #35

This smells distinctly of a McConnell proxy presidency. ffr Sep 2018 #36

I just called both my US Senators and my US Representative. PatrickforO Sep 2018 #37

Who cares if they were NOT elected on a rigged and corrupted system? Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #40

Yes. Nitram Sep 2018 #41

Reagan Wawannabe Sep 2018 #42

Dangerous, yes, but letting the elected official make the decisions would be even more dangerous. Kablooie Sep 2018 #45

K&R Scurrilous Sep 2018 #46

It is much more than a cover up. It is a coup. A coterie of unelected right wingers is running the Nitram Sep 2018 #47

+1 dalton99a Sep 2018 #49

There we go again "If what the anonymous OpEd said is true" Perseus Sep 2018 #48

Everything in the op-ed has been reported previously, for the most part. Garrett78 Sep 2018 #51

k&r Demovictory9 Sep 2018 #53