We all have QUESTIONS right now. I’m not proposing that I have ANSWERS. I do not believe anyone can answer these questions for anyone else; these questions are the kind that ONLY YOU can arrive at answers to, FOR YOURSELF. I have my own answers for myself, but I believe EVERY CITIZEN needs to arrive at their own answers. I am only proposing that these questions (and likely others that I am currently unable to form) need to be asked of each of us, so that we can arrive at our own answers for the good of the Nation.
I offer the following, for entertainment value and to get your mind in a proper state to consider what will follow (after the break); it’s not essential that you view it. If you’re already receptive you can open my post and go directly to my Q U E S T I O N S.
Strange Days aren’t they?
Generally speaking, reading the News in the morning should not fill the reader with DREAD. Many of us have had a sense that things were definitely headed in the wrong direction, indeed, many have had the sense that we were already severely “off course” in this Country, but today, I’m overwhelmed by the sense that we are so far beyond those descriptions that I can not formulate a reasonable response to the QUESTION “how do we get back to where we should be?”
THOUGHTS
Others have already highlighted some significant statements made by several different sources regarding the current situation. This morning brought a few that I want to highlight (without comment) for you to consider. These are already generating discussion, so I will not add my own views, simply offer them for you to view before I pose my own QUESTIONS.
Maddow: Impeachment
Tribe: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
With all that has been said, all that we can intuit, all the contradiction and obfuscation; Is there really any doubt that there is simply too much smoke for there to be NO FIRE?
It would seem that the first step is to have an independent investigation (Investigator? Prosecutor?). I would think that this is something of a “no-brainer”, but there seems to be a significant amount of push-back to this proposal. We can not allow that to succeed.
From there we would move to the inevitable (IMHO) IMPEACHMENT. From there we go to the removal of the current resident from the residence that he so dislikes.
Then what?
I commented on another post from this morning in order to “get eyes” on this Handy Chart
(courtesy of Charles Gaba) which lays out the “Order of Succession” in frightening detail.
QUESTION
Do we currently possess a method by which an ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION can be removed from office?
If such a thing existed, we would surely consider using it NOW! It would certainly seem to be reasonable to think that an Executive who has essentially been elected to office under false premises, who has been “illegitimate” since his first day, should have no ability to claim that his appointee’s and Cabinet heads should remain after he is removed. This was part of the problem that left little changed after Nixon and his gang of Merry Men had their privileges revoked. We didn’t go deep enough to get ALL of the weed, and it grew right back less than a decade later. So. . .
Do we currently possess a method by which an ENTIRE BRANCH of the Government can be removed from office?
If such a thing existed, we would surely consider using it NOW! It is not the case that simply removing the flower at the top of the plant will cause the weed to die. After 113 days the Administration has thrust its operatives deep into every part of the Executive Branch. This proved to be a significant problem within the Obama Administration. Individuals with a Political agenda (mandate?) were placed in every level of the Executive during the Bush years. Many were like “ticking time bombs” just waiting to “go boom” when an opportunity arose. We must get all of them out, or we will surely be returning to a similar circumstance before another decade passes.
But. . .
I next read two excellent pieces, that highlighted another consideration. I again will offer them for your purview, without comment, and will “wrap this up” with my final question.
Krugman talks about Betrayal
Krugman makes the case against R's
I shuddered (physically) as I read those two stories. It’s a fairly persuasive argument. It is not that the idea is foreign to me, I’ve often thought about it myself in my 60 years of observing this Party’s maneuvering and misleading and malice.
Question
Do we currently possess a method by which an ENTIRE POLITICAL PARTY can be removed from POWER?
Should we consider that we might need to create such a thing?