tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post8809543902971121614..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: Impeach Him Again (updated)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-74789809841937575492021-01-09T18:41:13.582-05:002021-01-09T18:41:13.582-05:00The USA has become the laughing stock of the world...The USA has become the laughing stock of the world. All who point fingers and cry out the loudest are trying to cover their oen tails.Archimandrite Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894842027467584759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-6076044037007072692021-01-07T12:51:38.217-05:002021-01-07T12:51:38.217-05:00You are right that he should be impeached and remo...You are right that he <b>should</b> be impeached and removed, but I am doubtful that he <b>will</b> be. Same goes for the XXV amendment.<br /><br />Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once facetiously asked one of his law clerks what is the most important law in the United States. When the clerk admitted his bafflement at the question, Holmes replied “the law of five—if you have five justices behind, you can do anything. With only four, nothing.” <i>Mutatis mutandis</i>, the same goes here. It does not matter how just your cause, if you lack the votes, you cannot get it done. Both impeachment and XXV remedies lack the votes.<br /><br />The only method of removing Pres. Trump that has the requisite votes is the one that was invoked formally and irrevocably in the early hours of this morning—the election of Joe Biden. It will come into effect in 13 days and no sooner, quite regardless of the (as you rightly note) awful precedent that will be set by leaving Pres. Trump in office after yesterday’s shameful incitement to riot.<br /><br />The good news, as Adam Smith observed, is that there is a lot of ruin in a nation. The bad news is that some stains never entirely wash out. Our long, unbroken tradition of a peaceful transfer of power ended yesterday. Pres. Assad, Pres. Putin, & Chairman Xi all got their wish yesterday, to see the United States reduced to their own grubby level, all by the work of soi-disant “patriots”-cum-terrorists.Greg DeLassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12572157616072184165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-80611994111294912302021-01-07T07:21:13.001-05:002021-01-07T07:21:13.001-05:00John, the logic you are using is not unlike that t...John, the logic you are using is not unlike that that leads to at best, vigilante justice, at worst, a lynching. Calm down & consider the 25th Amendment as a better way of removing a man no longer capable pf performing the duties of the office of President.<br /><br />Justice administered while passions are inflamed is rarely justice.<br /><br />Who knows? Four years of being hounded about collusions with the Russians could drive anybody mad.unreconstructed rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550310406767475723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-65052556209562637552021-01-06T23:40:58.007-05:002021-01-06T23:40:58.007-05:00And what do you think is the appropriate response ...And what do you think is the appropriate response to a president who has been lying through his teeth and spreading patently phony conspiracy theories for three months in an attempt to subvert a lawful election, culminating with inciting a violent attack on the nation's Capitol that resulted in someone getting shot and killed? There is not a shadow of a doubt that Donald Trump is guilty of sedition. John (Ad Orientem)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14329907942477160166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-66914880165726006882021-01-06T23:34:09.042-05:002021-01-06T23:34:09.042-05:00With all due respect, you cannot be serious.With all due respect, you cannot be serious.Jenny the Piratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17960699358173893411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-8944429347274309512021-01-06T20:53:16.048-05:002021-01-06T20:53:16.048-05:00Think again. If you think events today were ugly, ...Think again. If you think events today were ugly, multiply it 100 fold if the president is removed with only two weeks left in office.J Hunstigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04698012137057115180noreply@blogger.com