Als GWB
2003 in den Irak eimarschierte, hatte er derartig dreist über die Kriegsgründe
gelogen, daß man ernsthaft überlegte wie man den Präsidenten impeachen lassen
könnte.
Müßte
das nicht irgendwie möglich sein, nachdem man den Vorgänger über Monate mit
einem Impeachmentverfahren durch die Mangel gedreht hatte, weil er, die Fakten
etwas großzügiger auslegend, behauptete nicht mit einer Frau Sex gehabt zu haben,
obwohl sie an ihm Fellatio ausführte?
Waren
diese juristischen Spitzfindigkeiten über das FREIWILLIGE Intimleben zweier Erwachsener
nicht harmloser, als hundertfache Lügen des nächsten US-Präsidenten, der damit
einen illegalen Angriffskrieg, mehrere Hunderttausend Tote und einen
dreistelligen Milliarden-Betrag Kosten verursachte?
Offenbar
nicht, denn es wurde nie versucht George Bush Junior zu impeachen.
Um 2004
wurde es zum Running Gag nach einer Person zu fahnden, die
GWB endlich einen Blowjob verpasste, um ihn des Amtes
zu entheben.
Eine
blöde Idee, gegen die viele rationale Gründe sprachen; insbesondere aber die
noch schlimmere Alternative:
Dick Cheney wäre nachgerückt.
Dick Cheney wäre nachgerückt.
Bush mag
zwar total verblödet, ungebildet, faul und schwer religiotisch gewesen sein,
aber sein Vize war zusätzlich auch noch zutiefst bösartig.
Ich
glaube nicht, daß GWB ein Rassist oder Misogynist gewesen ist.
- Ob sich
der alte weißte Mann Cheney eine schwarze Frau als Vertraute, Sicherheitsberaterin
und Außenministerin geholt hätte, wage ich zu bezweifeln.
Putting Cheney in charge would be really bad. Putting anybody else in charge would be worse!
Let's imagine for a moment that the Democrats could actually get a
conviction. If Bush is impeached and convicted, who becomes president? The most
straightforward scenario has the President convicted and Cheney stepping in to
be president. I assume I don't need to enumerate to a dailykos reader the ways
in which Cheney could potentially be worse than Bush... it would be hell.
Remember, Cheney is old, un-electable, and has a reputation so bad he may as
well not worry about a legacy... Cheney would be in charge, and would have
nothing to lose. Don't go to sleep thinking about that, you will get
nightmares.
Anyway, that is the simplest scenario, but it is not the most likely. A
much more likely scenario is that Cheney steps down if impeachment (either
Bush's impeachment or his own) looks immanent. The Republican Party will
nominate a candidate to replace him, and unless the candidate is really
obviously not qualified, Democrats will find it difficult to block a moderate
republican. The R's will pick one like John McCain or Rudy Guliani, someone who
has presidential ambitions and a reputation of independence. Bush gets
impeached and convicted, and the Republicans suddenly have shiny, new,
re-electable incumbent candidate who can disassociate himself from Bush's
record and condemn the partisan and power-motivated politics that lead to
Bush's impeachment. As Democrats, why on earth would we put ourselves in this
situation?
Tactically, we want to run the 2008 election against Bush's cronies and
his record, not against an "anti-bush" Republican, especially not one
who has suddenly gained the power of incumbency! [….]
Bei
Donald Trump stehen wir vor einem ähnlichen Problem.
Der Mann
mischt sich mit ungeheuerlichen Lügen schon jetzt so penetrant in Obamas Amtsgeschäfte ein,
daß nach einem Impeachment gerufen wird.
Sicher
würde eine Mehrheit der Amerikaner sehr erleichtert sein, wenn man Trump doch
noch davon abhalten könnte ins Weiße Haus einzumarschieren.
Natürlich
müßte dieser selbstzufriedene, größenwahnsinnige Lügenbold ohne Allgemeinbildung
vom Präsidentenamt ferngehalten werden.
Aber was
dann?
Am
19.11. tagte das Wahlmännergremium und bestimmte das Ticket Trump/Pence für
den Job als potus und Vize.
Bei
einem Ausfall Trumps würde Pence übernehmen, der nicht gebildeter und noch viel
fanatischer homohassend ist.
Der
Hardcorereligiot will zurück ins Mittelalter und noch exzessiver Menschen
diskriminieren. Was für ein Alptraum im Jahr 2017.
[….] Donald Trump would roll back Barack Obama’s
orders on LGBT rights, his running mate Mike Pence has confirmed.
[….] President Obama last year signed an
executive order outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender
identity among federal contractors. Earlier this year his administration
followed up with guidance to schools, urging them not to discriminate against
transgender students.
In the interview, Dobson asked Pence whether Obama’s guidance would be
reversed.
The VP candidate confirmed that the Republicans would roll back Obama’s
orders so that “the transgender bathroom issue can be resolved with common
sense at the local level”.
He said: “This is such an example of an administration that seems to
have… there’s no area of our lives too small for them to want to regulate, no
aspect of our constitution too large for them to ignore.
“Donald Trump and I both believe these questions can be resolved with
common sense at the local level.
“These issues are resolved in the state of Indiana whenever they come
up, and they should be resolved, for the safety and wellbeing of our children
first and foremost, their privacy and rights, and with common sense. Donald
Trump and I simply believe all of these issues are best resolved at the state
level, by communities.”
[….] “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a
Republican, in that order. The Trump-Pence administration will be dedicated to
preserving the liberties of our people, including the freedom of religion
that’s enshrined in our Bill of Rights.”
It is the latest in a string of concessions to anti-LGBT evangelicals.
[….] Pence has one of the worst records on LGBT
rights of any candidate on a major party’s Presidential ticket in recent times.
A hardline evangelical, the Governor of Indiana stirred up international
outrage last year when he signed Indiana’s controversial ‘Religious Freedom
Restoration Act’, which gave businesses the right to discriminate against gay
people on the grounds of religion.
Governor Pence previously suggested that HIV prevention funding be
drained in order to fund state-sponsored ‘gay cure’ therapy, and earlier this
year appeared unable to answer when asked whether it should be legal to fire
people because of their sexuality.
An investigation last month found that Pence approved extreme anti-LGBT
articles when he was the head of the Indiana Policy Review journal in the
1990s. [….]
