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Veteran watchers of the Bush administration are coming to realize that all of the official statements these days are generally variations on a one of a very few themes.
Official Response #3: "No one could have anticipated . . ."
Both FEMA and the Department of Defense claim credit for the popularity of this phrase. FEMA's landmark work in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina is the gold standard for domestic idiocy, while the ongoing GOP foreign policy efforts in Iraq of the DOD, CIA, CPA, KBR, Halliburton, and a host of others (from both private industry and governmental offices) have made this phrase an international icon of ridicule.
Official Response #2: "I'm an idiot, not a crook!"
Generally, this response is not phrased quite so bluntly, but it appears in more benign forms, as it did in the DOJ Inspector General's recent report on Monica Goodling and the illegal political hiring practices of the DOJ under Ashcroft and Gonzales. As Charlie Savage recounts in his story on the report in the New York Times,
Ms. Williams [then the White House's liaison to the Justice Department] told the Justice Department inspector general that she had not realized that immigration judges were career jobs subject to Civil Service rules. Mr. Fratto [a White House spokesman] said there was no evidence that White House officials realized that at the time, either.
Read that again, more slowly.
Shorter Jan Williams to DOJ IG: "I'm an idiot, not a crook!"
Shorter Tony Fratto: "Us too -- we're *all* idiots, not crooks!"
Never mind that pesky "ignorance of the law is no excuse" legal dictum -- it's just a tired cliche, I guess.
Topping the list, though, is a classic . . .
Official Statement # 1: "I don't recall."
Many have used these words before, and no doubt many will do so in the future. But who can forget the legendary appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee of the 80th Attorney General of the United States, Alberto Gonzales? (Shorter musical version here, and longer KO version here. )
I don't recall. I have no recollection. I don't remember. . .
I would be remiss in my duties if I failed to note a new phrase, rising fast on the charts as the administration's days come to an end: "Let bygones be bygones."
Never mind looking back at past lawbreaking. Don't bother trying to sort out who in the Bush administration (or who, under their orders) did what to whom in violation of US government regulations, federal laws, international treaties, or the Constitution of the United States of America. As the clock ticks down on BushCo, that "accountability moment" that comes every four years is looking mighty frightening to everyone from Bush on down, and so "let bygones be bygones" is sounding better and better.
Ah, the classic official statements of the Bush administration. If you have a favorite variation, do share it in the comments. They all get embroidered, embellished, and enhanced, but each one comes down to the same thing: Don't blame me!
Sorry Mr. President -- it comes with the job.
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Hi, Peterr!
“TODDI” -> The Other Dude Did It!”
Peterr! Say a little prayer (better make that an extra jumbo king sized one) for their souls (assuming that they have any). They are seriously going to need all the help the can get when they meet their maker. 8-)
“i don’t recall whether i’m an idiot or a crook, so let’s just leave it behind us and we march into a brave new obama future.”
The DOJ excuse - We have Regent University Law School graduates taking care of everything.
Oh, very good!
Of course, if you’re the president and all the dudes are *your* dudes, that doesn’t help a whole lot. It might keep one of them out of jail, what with everyone pointing fingers at everyone else creating lots of reasonable doubt, but it doesn’t exactly burnish Bush’s reputation.
They may need that help long before they meet their maker.
Exhibit A: Ted Stevens.
Ted’s going with response #2 — “I paid every bill they sent me, and if they didn’t send me a bill as a way to slyly bribe me . . . gosh, I didn’t even notice. I’m an idiot, not a crook!”
Hey. I forgot armed robbery was illegal.
(Steve Martin)
Two simple words in the English language…I forgot.
BushCo took it to absurd heights.
That’s a Hot TODDI
Official Response #3: “No one could have anticipated . . .”
Both FEMA and the Department of Defense claim credit for the popularity of this phrase.
I’d have to give this one to Condi Rice:
“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile - a hijacked airplane as a missile.” (5/17/02)
Of course, there were “hair on fire” warnings about this throughout the summer of 2001.
At this point absolutely nothing can diminish Bush’s reputation any further. Nothing he does will offend those 24%ers. He could screw a dead boy on the white house lawn while burning a flag and reciting the Koran and they would think he was the second coming of St. Ronnie.
i wanna hear whattayamean ignorance of the law is no excuse
oops - need to correct myself. I was referring to testimony given by Haynes, Feith, and other vassorted human-like figures appearing before various congressional committees.
Should have said SODDI -> “*Some* Other Dude Did It”.
TODDI requires some specificity - my bad - got my defenses mixed up. Gotta maintain the “honor among
thievestorturers” thing, ya know.I certainly hope so, but I have little faith that the political will is there among the Democratic leadership - especially Obama, Pelosi, and Reid - to make it happen.
Theres’s an OLC opinion covering just this scenario. David Addington told me so.
if the president did it, its legal
“I don’t recall that anybody anticipated that I would be an idiot and not a crook.”
In the next few months, we’re going to see an explosion of
He’s/I’ve suffered enough!
“Suffered,” of course, = “quit to make twice as much lobbying the people who now have my job, but someone reported on the nightly news - once - that I committed felonies, so that’s punishment aplenty.”
And then there was the fictional plane-into-the-Capital scene in Tom Clancy’s 1994 “Debt of Honor” that killed the president and most of the house, senate, Supreme Court, and Cabinet. (The VP hero makes it out, just in time to take center stage in the next volume in the series.)
But yeah, other than Tom Clancy and everyone who read his best-selling book, no one could have imagined that scenario.
There is a ultra top secret OLC opinion saying IOKIYAR from which all the other OLC opinions derive.
Until they are sitting in Leavenworth, they have not yet even begun to suffer. IMHO.
No. It is not there.
so we will be seeing a lot of these before and after pictures?
They are not going to do anything. Period. Nada. Zilch. Zero.
if the president did it, its legal
“Or at least not sufficient to get extradited from Paraguay.”
Nixon was so short-sighted.
This one isn’t in the hands of Congressional leadership, but in the hands of the FBI and a rather upset United States Attorney and several Assistant USAs.
Soon — in September or October, if Ted gets his way — it will be in the hands of a jury.
I trust a jury to deal with this honestly a bit more than I would trust Congress.
As I recall thanks to Ally McBeal the phrase has been reduced to a more economic “Bygones.”
That seems to be the intention of the dems moving forward. Is there such a thing as Congressional Malpractice?
Oh, and an interesting thing that Jon Stewart pointed out—with the McShame commercial dissing Paris Hilton—her parents contributed to the max to his campaign. I wonder how they feel about that now.
“heck of a job” should go down in history and we shouldn’t forget “awesome” to the Pope.
Peterr, I think you have the basic set, from which all others can be generated.
When printed on soft cloth or paper, they’d make an inspiring flute swab.
Oh, they will go after Ted and any other Congress critters dumb enough to get caught, but I doubt anything will happen to any of the White House malefactors.
Ah, the Scooter Response!
Libby was the test case for this one, and it will no doubt make a much grander appearance from the podium in the WH Press Room come December when Bush hands out his Christmas pardons.
(When’s Marcy going to run her next Pardon Pool thread, anyway?)
“The Clinton administration did it too”
“I haven’t read the report/memo/indictment so I can’t comment”
“I can’t talk about an on-going investigation” followed by “That matter was settled by the courts so we’ve moved on”
Yes and they are committing it. The real lessons we should have learned from Watergate and Iran-Contra ********** they will just keep doing it at every opportunity.
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Ah, some classics there . . . along with the variation “while the appeals are pending, we can’t comment”
Is there such a thing as Congressional Malpractice?
oh yeah, and it’s available for free watching on the teevee every day. CSpan, ya know. Just not actionable, ’cause they’ve screwed everybody pretty much equally.
Peterr, well stated post and thoughtful. Thanks for getting out front on the new Repub/Dem approach: “Let’s all just move on to the promised land.” We’ve got to keep their butts in the firepit!
congress is wasting time with this political witch hunt while (insert name of threat/victim here) is being ignored
“The Clinton administration did it too”
Ooohh, that one hits close to home. My mother, a rock-solid Republican for most all of her adult life, finally reached the point where she announced “I have no party anymore’.
However, when confronted by any particularized argument, her response always default to - “oh Lord, jay, that’s been going on forever and ever.”
Me - “Doesn’t make it right though, does it?”
Since we have the perfect host here this evening, how does one go about exorcising the remaining vestiges of Republicanism from an otherwise hugely intelligent woman?
This partisan bickering must end.
-G
Someone (here?) invented this one, and I like it: The NOCHA Presidency.
No
On
Could
Have
Anticipated
“How can we legislate if we impeach?”
“While the appeals are pending, we can’t comment on the fact that our guy got busted and convicted. This is a change from our pre-conviction stance, where we proclaimed his innocence long and loud for weeks in an attempt to work the refs. You are not permitted to notice the contradiction. If you do, we will, depending on your occupation, whine that you are the liberal media or run an ad saying you love the terraists. Thank you and good day.”
“Presidential nominee John McCain” has been doing wonders for curing my brother. He’s not all the way there, but I’m hopeful.
The key to the exorcism is to start your responses to her with the phrase “Mom, you always taught me . . .”
Wherever it goes from there — FISA, due process, torture, DOJ politicization, war profiteering, etc. — she’s got to argue against herself before she can start to argue against you.
But no promises on the speed with which this will work. I’ve been using this angle on my grandmother for about thirty years. She’s a wonderful woman, but she *still* thinks Nixon was framed.
BushCo may forget but video tape remembers it all… Perhaps Bush and Cheney could share a cell?
A more politically-oriented variation on “let bygones be bygones,” and I shudder when I hear it coming from Democrats.
That has got to stop.
Digg it here, pups!
peterr, you play hardball - your mom taught you well :)
dugg and thanks teddy for opening it
Absolutely. As long as no one important pays any penalty, they will keep doing it because they know they can always get away with it.
Yoonitary Executive Privilege means, if The Greatest Polluter Guy thinks it, it becomes law. “The Constitution is a goddamn piece of paper.”
But it is my Goddamn piece of paper, and I want it back.
I’ve got to hit the sack, but I trust you all can continue the merriment and dissection of the greatest rhetorical hits of Scott McClellan, Tony Snow, Dana Perino, and the other BushCo Mouthpieces.
G’nite, all!
(I’m sure I’ll enjoy reading the rest of the thread tomorrow morning.)
When you hear that amoral dildo-huffer Dick Cheney talking about how brave Gerald Ford was for pardoning Tricky Dick, you know it is a loser of an argument.
I say frog march the mofos.
-G
Night Peterr. Sleep the sleep of the just.
g’nite peterr
Just like Bush does!
Standing on the promises.
I feel the same way.
ding!
Brilliant…….and sad. An old friend of mine taught me to say, “I’m sure you’re right”……and then just level the situation! I’m laughing still. For us oppositional types, saying “I’m sure you;re right” just sends us into a tail spin of , “The hell I am!”
It looks like it will be a barn burner in Israel between Tzipi Livni heading the Kadima Party and everyone’s favorite, bellicose warmonger, Bibi NuttyYahoo heading Likud.
-G
“Overthrowing Saddam was the right decision.”
I wish that were funny. Netanyahu is plum crazy.
this is in the news queue
No. That is the sleep of the soulless and conscienceless.
When you hear that amoral dildo-huffer Dick Cheney talking
about how brave Gerald Ford was for pardoning Tricky Dick,you know it is a loser of an argument.no need to get too specific when referring to “The Word of Darth”. *g*
Zombie sleep eh?
I don’t remember whether or not I recall.
Did I happen to mention here the opening of The Beach House: Relaxed Politics. It’s a combined blogging adventure with me, NDFG & Al the Spook. Stop on by.
Off to change my profile!
Sociopath sleep.
congratulations
How is there a beach house in Texas?
Just wondering why you chose that.
I live in Los Angeles. Now, We Have Some Beaches. :)
Oh, hi, Suzanne. Okay. You have beaches too.
Texas has many beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. Also, beach houses are inviting and relaxing.
You have obviously never been to Galveston or Padre.
Thanks Suz.
A popular defense in kindergartens the world over!
Ha. Ha.
Naps are also inviting and relaxing.
So’s a cup a tea.
I just think it’s kinda funny.
Happy for you guys, tho. Best wishes and all.
True enough.
true dat. and my temporary residence up near newport, oregon is very close to the beach… i’ll be a lot closer than my current 13 miles up the mt.
How is there a beach house in Texas?
details, details…
When asked at a restaurant (in Indianapolis) if I have a seating preference, I always ask for a table with a nice view of the ocean….
I am off to bed. Went hiking up here today and I am beat. Take care and enjoy the snark.
I just have to come visit, again. But, I’m not bringing my bathing suit.
My daddy was raised in Indianapolis. Was there when I was a teen. No beaches, ha.
Hi, Jayt.
Sleep well Dr D. Gonna go look at your pix.
better hurry up, escrow closes on 8/8 and i have to be out by the 13th
lovely eye candy dr no pause dick - g’nite
Does the claim of “executive privilege” count? “I can’t answer those questions because it’s privileged information…..could impact on national security….blah blah blah”…..
I cruised thru the comments and didn’t see that one mentioned, I may have missed it, it’s late.
But isn’t that another “Don’t blame me” tactic, ultimately?
I liked Greg’s comment (as I am always inclined to do), and feel exactly the same:
FROG MARCH the mofo’s!!!
And do we have a plan for if & when everyone gets pardoned ala Gerald Ford? I ask because we really cannot let that happen with this bunch. Not again, not ever, and most assuredly not this time!
Oh, no. I meant to visit the New plane in Oregon. :)
You’re buying a plane, right?
I meant Place. oops
oh, well the beach place is a temporary place while i look for permanent place to hang my hat - hope to only be there for a very short time. everyone is gonna have to wait until i’m settled into my permanent new place and am ready to be having visitors.
3. So?
2. Get over it.
1. Who cares what you think?
Bonus points: F**k you!
nope. i lost about 90% of my investment into this house. but i am walking away with that 10% and will be out of the hole i’ve been in - the one that was getting larger every month.
At one time or another, all of us have offered lame excuses for our failure to perform as expected. People in positions of power, whether in the corporate world or government need to be held accountable for their most egregious failures. This kind of accountability used to be assumed. You fail, you lose. This does not seem to be the case anymore (either in the corporate world or in government.)
How do we convince our missing Legislative branch that it is a good thing to pursue and correct misconduct by the Executive branch of Government? Apparently, the Constitution is not clear enough for some people on this subject. I don’t think that the Founders anticipated that Congress would ever cave in to the Executive without a fight. I know I’m disappointed by the pathetic failure of the supposed “opposition” party control of Congress. Elections have not delivered accountability.
How badly does the system need to fail before people take notice and demand a change?
Are we there yet?
hahaha - bonus points would, of course, be the dick cheney response
It’ll be a nice transition.
I can’t go anywhere right now, anyway.
Nice!
And welcome, wwiii!
btw, welcome to the lake wwiii. if you have any questions, just ask.
i’m looking forward to some down time. i’m way overdue and august in a place near the beach sounds just perfect to me.
Well, foxman, I AM. And it sounds to me like the majority of Americans are there with me (judging from the 06 elections).
And I’m not sure WHAT we do when voting doesn’t produce desired results.
We most certainly got totally screwed by the Dem majority congress we placed.
Sad, scary but most of all, infuriating!
Hey, wwiii.
I love humor. We need it sometimes.
My fave, “I don’t recall remembering that!” AGAG.
But then there’s the punch line for the whole mess. Nobody will be prosecuted because the laws that were broken were “civil laws” whatever that means.
Are you almost packed? Such a job but you get to throw out all that stuff you really haven’t used in years.
You certainly deserve it.
And, have I ever told you how much I enjoy Perfect?
Ted Stevens should have known when his house was being remodeled and raised up a story, that Bill Allen would do to him what he did. The Feds are about to release a lot of recordings and transcripts as part of discovery. I’ve got a hunch Stevens is going to look a lot smaller once the public hears and reads this stuff.
No wonder he wants the trial moved from DC to Anchorage, where reasons 1, 2 and 3 have kept the GOP in power here for 14 years.
i’m packing madly. i tossed out a bunch stuff when i moved up here 5 years ago and then a bunch more when going through the house before staging.
all i really have to go through is the stuff out in the shed and my clothes - sorting out what goes to donation, what i pack into the pod, and what goes with me to oregon. i expect there will be a dump run and a run down to the food bank with a lotta the stuff in my pantry.
hey et
ET!
“I’m innocent of all charges, and will be proven innocent.”
Right up until the time my deal is in the bag.
“and i have rolled over on as many people as i can because i’m not going down alone”
Try not to get exhausted so you can enjoy that beautiful drive to Oregon.
If someone replied “When in the course of human events…” they would be subject to surveillance and possible interrogation. I’d be afraid to complete that statement today.
His son is going down - there’s room for movement.
Right up to the point where he does his best blubbering Duke Cunningham impression and begs for mercy……..
Frog march the old coot.
-G
thanks twain. the idea is to do as much with as many people as i can sunday and then do the rest at a more leisurely pace.
i’m planning on taking two day to drive up there, enjoying all the eye candy the drive has to offer.
Do you think a change of venue will help him, ET?
“I’m innocent of all charges, and will be proven innocent.”
umm, doesn’t that one fall into the “famous last words” category?
“My client and I look forward to the trial of this matter, at which all the facts will come out, and my client will be proven innocent of all charges”.
(the legal version)
i am so looking forward to the cunninghamification of ted, standing in front of the microphones, tears streaming down his face as he admits that he has been a bad bad boy.
He can beg all he wants. NO SPANKINGS!
hahahahaha
-can’t answer for national security reasons
-you did it first!
-I was following orders
-Sadam would still be
-we don’t torture
McAngry is the star of his own reality show. Next Big Asshole.
-G
Yeah, well, gotta give them credit, our framers! They did what they could, foxman. How could they know that 2.5 of the 3 branches would go corrupt at the same time? How furious I get when I think of the good people who fought and died for this country, and all the good people and great Americans who fought, fight and die and died for the bs of a few greedy war mongerers who have nothing to do with and could not care less about the values of this country OR any past casualties for freedom.
It’s just flat out gettin to be revolution time. Again.
*sigh*
Leave Ted Stevens alone!
-G
Yes, I do.
Instead of being convicted, an Anchorage jury might request the judge to write a letter to the Pope, recommending Sainthood; to the chief elder of the LDS church, recommending he be declared a Mormon; to the Dalai Lama that he relinquish his position to Ted; and to some high Ayatollah to supply Ted a whole bunch of virgins.
Um, speaking of sons. The update on my son working for the Obama campaign is…He’s Not.
He spent an entire day, going door to door for contributions and got…ziltch, nothing. Lots of people yelled at him. The Republican who hate McCain are going to vote for Obama, but will not give any money. The Democrats he talked to said they were so p o’d about the FISA bill, that they would never give or vote. He couldn’t argue with them, and when he agreed with them, his partner in the deal yelled at him too.
He was totally devastated. I told him it was a good thing that he can’t lie and that he’ll find something else.
oh yes, can’t forget these classics :)
haven’t seen you before here on the dark side of the lake - if ya have any questions, just holler.
Siri, I’m reading a Thomas Jefferson biography and having alot of the same emotions. Furious as hell. Sad as all get out.
oh, that’s too bad it did not work out for him demi. fingers and toes crossed he finds something soon.
Fork.
This calls for more beer.
He should post his experience to the blog on the Obama site.
Since McAngry, the small and bitter maverick, has no compunction about trucking in outright lies, let’s start telling folks that McCain has hired a perverted murderer as a campaign aid.
I mean his name is Rick Davis.
-G
“You say you want a revolution
Well, you know…
We’d all love to see the plan”
nice to type with you siri…
So sorry, Demi…
But…
I was wrong - civics is NOT dead!
Thanks. He will. (I’ll let him know about your toes. :)
It was the same story for his three friends, so…
It was a good life lesson, I think. (It’s scary out there.)
Oh, here’s the other thing I learned. The office has a poster on the wall that says Every time a Republican Votes, God kills a Kitten.
wow. he’s my favorite fore father! i loves me some TJ.
What book are you reading? And I too am furious, and just so very heart broken. I want my country back. I’m homesick. and no where else to go.
I want trials at The Hague and a great age of Restoration.
*sigh*
You are absolutely right. I’ll tell him.
You’re reading a biography? And, I thought you were always a barrel of laughs. (hug)
I’m reading Stranger In A Strange Land.
you too, foxman. it’s an honor.
:)
and wangdangdoodle, answer that question re the book, and I’ll check it tomorrow.
I’m just beat and gotta go to bed. been a long day. i can’t hang.
thank you!
hugz to alllll the pups.
night!
g’nite siri
Good Sleepy Night to you Siri.
(and a hug.)
Hi!
hey big brother
THOMAS JEFFERSON A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity by Alf J. Mapp, Jr.
Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Franklin and all the rest were great leaders of thought and conscience.
Hard for me to identify any of the current crop that have the same commitment.
Will vote for Barack and hope for the best.
Hey, what happened to my underlines?
I laugh so I don’t go insane.
Loved Stranger in a Strange Land. Been a while, need to read it again.
Who’s he going down on ?Never mind ! *g*Evenin’ all !
Dammit, Jim! What’s with the underlines disappearing?
I appreciate your comment, you!!! nice guy.
And, we did learn something, didn’t we?
Civics, indeed. And, he was in a real low to middle class neighborhood. People ARE paying attention. That in itself is encouraging.
PS, some lesbians were yelling at him about O’s stance on some other issues and he said to them…you’re preaching to the choir, girlfriends.
I love my kid!
the tech crew is working through what the glitch is in the code - is probably another thing that is disconnected while they sort through it all trying to find out what the problem is.
I have puppy pictures!
I’m sure I read it many years ago, but I’m not remembering it.
Maybe I was stoned or something.
Sending all o’ ya some chilled Belgian Brew through
Ted’s Cellteh toobz …Sorry, it’s my Truck Book, had to go out to the driveway and get it. I read it while waiting in line. Got quite a few pages in today waiting to get the truck inspected.
Sweet dreams, siri.
How elitist.
-G
Two words. A dorable.
Um … they got Botoxed ? *g*
woohoo…
aw, what a cutie she is…
It’s
LoveLeffe Actually … *g*How’s it goin’, eh ?
Dammit,
JimJanet!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvvcqYRCN4
Many years ago, I probably was, too. Now I just blame menopause. In a few years, I plan to blame Ahlzheimer’s.
Beware the Duvel.
Hiya, Petro!
What were we talking about?
Well, at least we have italics, bold and
strike-thru.Isn’t this convenient?
*One of the nation’s top biodefense researchers has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailing assaults of 2001 that killed five, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for the past 18 years worked at the government’s elite biodefense research laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., had been informed of the impending prosecution, people familiar with Ivins, his suspicious death and with the FBI investigation said.
-G
Who, me?
Scrithies!!
Hmm, bread rising on the computer… brilliant!
OK, those were skritchies. Doggies can have skritchies, too, can’t they?
fuck
judas forking priest
late late nite upstairs
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
I had visions when I read your announcement that your son was going canvassing and to be paid! It sounded like a magazine sales job to me or Fuller brush and did not jive with normal precinct walkers. Obama has some strangeness in his grassroots that is amazing and hoaky to me. I met a pair at my door early in the campaign and they were from another county but credible and volunteers not employees. I telked to them abour Kuccinich.
Another vision shot to hell.
The position is paid, but you have to get X amount of contributions. But, yes it turned out to be just another boiler room sales gig, but door to door. Sad. And, not very encouraging.
Still, No McCain for me!
No McSame here either. Just really uncomfortable with telling it one way and playing it another. How can that last. He does a good spreech and has a good heart. Maybe he will learn to sort it all out and stay on ther same page. It is Obama’s to lose. With the way things are I have to wonder how USA will vote for four more.
Thank you. And, yes, bonus points would be for the Dickster practicing his particular take on diplomacy on the Senate floor.
Can we get on with the impeachment proceedings already? Adjourn the 110th Congress. Let John Conyers be Speaker of the House. Vote to impeach Cheney and Bush on January 2, 2009. Convict in the Senate on January 5, 2009. Swear in Conyers as President. The House can re-elect Nancy as Speaker of the House. And finally, let Mr. Conyers appear on the podium for President Obamba’s inauguration.
Then, we can get on with cleaning up all the shit that Little Georgie and The Big Dick dropped on the American people and the rest of the world.