Well, TLM, we saw that Robert Mueller didn't run his own investigation; it was run by Weissmann and other radicals who theoretically worked for Mueller but really did whatever they wanted to do. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was our de facto first female president. I don't picture Jill Biden taking over. Who would Joe pick for VP? Or would we see a shadow government at Obama's house in northwest Washington, DC?
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was our de facto first female president.
Woodrow Wilson was pig-headed enough that he refused to resign even though he was too ill to do much work. His wife arranges his household such that only she, his doctor, and the service staff are permitted to be in his presence. She acts as messenger between him and various other parties. We really haven't a clue how much she was free-lancing. The circumstances were such that it's a reasonable wager that cabinet secretaries were functioning as their own authority.
What's amusing, and indicative of what a brain-dead collection of people fill our legislatures, is that it took them nearly fifty years to assemble a constitutional amendment to address such situations. Then when they did, they craft a system that might work passably were the President unconscious or were the President ill but making sensible decisions. The smart money says it wouldn't have worked in a Wilson situation because the President and his wife despised the Vice President so thoroughly (for ignoble reasons) that it's difficult to imagine Wilson signing a letter taking a leave of absence and turning executive power over to whim.
Another bit of silliness is the statutory law governing the Presidential succession. It places the Speaker of the House and the President pro tem of the Senate in the 3d and 4th position. At the same time, the custom in Congress is to allocate the President pro tem position to the member of the majority party with the most seniority, so it's generally held by someone who is about 85 years old. As for the Speaker, you can run back about 90 years and you'll hardly find one occupant of that position that ever had any executive experience. John Boehner ran a small business with a modest staff and one of his predecessors had worked as a newspaper editor. They're the champion executives from among our Speakers.
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Look at it this way. He would be the perfect foil for the Deep Staters.
It's time for Uncle Joe to be put in a nursing home.
Actually, Joe would be the Deep State's sock puppet.
a better way to put it.
That would be the question. Uncle Joe can't run the country. Who would be the power behind the throne?
Katherine,
That's a scary thought.
Well, TLM, we saw that Robert Mueller didn't run his own investigation; it was run by Weissmann and other radicals who theoretically worked for Mueller but really did whatever they wanted to do. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was our de facto first female president. I don't picture Jill Biden taking over. Who would Joe pick for VP? Or would we see a shadow government at Obama's house in northwest Washington, DC?
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was our de facto first female president.
Woodrow Wilson was pig-headed enough that he refused to resign even though he was too ill to do much work. His wife arranges his household such that only she, his doctor, and the service staff are permitted to be in his presence. She acts as messenger between him and various other parties. We really haven't a clue how much she was free-lancing. The circumstances were such that it's a reasonable wager that cabinet secretaries were functioning as their own authority.
What's amusing, and indicative of what a brain-dead collection of people fill our legislatures, is that it took them nearly fifty years to assemble a constitutional amendment to address such situations. Then when they did, they craft a system that might work passably were the President unconscious or were the President ill but making sensible decisions. The smart money says it wouldn't have worked in a Wilson situation because the President and his wife despised the Vice President so thoroughly (for ignoble reasons) that it's difficult to imagine Wilson signing a letter taking a leave of absence and turning executive power over to whim.
Another bit of silliness is the statutory law governing the Presidential succession. It places the Speaker of the House and the President pro tem of the Senate in the 3d and 4th position. At the same time, the custom in Congress is to allocate the President pro tem position to the member of the majority party with the most seniority, so it's generally held by someone who is about 85 years old. As for the Speaker, you can run back about 90 years and you'll hardly find one occupant of that position that ever had any executive experience. John Boehner ran a small business with a modest staff and one of his predecessors had worked as a newspaper editor. They're the champion executives from among our Speakers.
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