Obama Administration Says President Can Use Lethal Force Against Americans on US Soil

[sofa king]

196. I can't believe nobody sees what he's doing.

Just suppose, hypothetically, that you are the President and you inherited this piece of shit argument from a prior, illegally acting Republican administration.

Suppose also you didn't particularly like it, thought it might be illegal, and/or thought it might set a useful precedent in order to later make a case against the people who created this insane state of affairs--or to hold it over the heads of those people to ensure they can never come back to Washington.

Suppose also that the Republicans are so dead set against every single position you take that they are willing to savage a career Republican whom you nominate to a cabinet position. They hate you so damned much that their opposition is as predictable as Ex-Lax.

What would you do?

You would assert your authority to do it, is what you would do. You would let the hateful knuckledraggers spend millions of Republican dollars to marshal public opinion against it, and spend millions of Republican dollars on dozens of Republican lawyers to run expensive cases through Republican-packed courts to dismantle their own legal fantasy at their own expense... before another effing Republican can steal another election and actually start using that authority.

That way the people responsible use their own money, time, and effort to fix the problem they created.