Sunday, January 10, 2021

Go home, Roy Blunt


Two things:

1) Please god, no, not behavior that we would expect from the president.  I expect nothing but the worst.

2) About that "hot stove" - ask Susan Collins how she feels about saying the president learned his lesson after the impeachment.

Case in point:
Banned from social media and abandoned by some staff after inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump and a dwindling circle of advisers plan a defiant final week in office, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump is confident Vice President Mike Pence and members of his cabinet won’t attempt to remove him under the 25th Amendment, the people said.

The president and some allies also believe Democrats are overreaching by trying to once again impeach him over Wednesday’s mob at the Capitol, and think Senate conviction would be unlikely in any event.

[...]

Trump plans to run out the clock on his four years in office by highlighting what he believes are his biggest accomplishments, including the barrier his administration built on at least part of the U.S. border with Mexico. A trip to Alamo, Texas, near the border is expected on Tuesday.

[...]

Trump is also preparing at least one more round of pardons, and will try a final time to advance his administration’s effort to bring Big Tech to heel, the people said, though it isn’t clear what he may do.

[...]

Some 57% of Americans want the president removed immediately, a Reuters/Ipsos poll published Friday found, while nearly 70% disapprove of Trump’s actions leading up to the Capitol riot.

Talk of impeachment or removal from office would make Trump a martyr to his base, one person said.

  Bloomberg
By all means, allow them to continue in their fantasy that he's still president rather than have a martyr. Stop coddling the delusional. 

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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