In the first actual primary of 2020, Joe Biden smoked the opposition, taking 49% of primary voters in South Carolina. Bernie’s showing was lame, at less than 20%; the Zero Percenters trailed far behind him. Steyer has already dropped out. Time for Mayor Pete, Warren, Klobuchar, and all the rest to do the same. This is between Biden, Bloomberg, and Sanders. Everyone else needs to go home.
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I just found out that Trump cannot pardon Roger Stone.
It appears that the framers of the constitution took Trump into consideration. George Mason was so suspicious of the pardoning power that he threatened to not sign the Constitution unless something was done about a loophole a president could use for evil. He wrote …
It may happen, at some future day, that he will establish a monarchy, and destroy the republic. If he has the power of granting pardons before indictment, or conviction, may he not stop inquiry and prevent detection?”
Thus, this was added to the Constitution.
Both the plain meaning of the Constitution’s text and the historical evidence show that once a president has been impeached, he or she loses the power to pardon anyone for criminal offenses connected to the articles of impeachment — and that even after the Senate’s failure to convict the president, he or she does not regain this power.
I did not know that was glaring out at us. Trump cannot pardon Stone.
I’m sure the Constitutional geniuses over at Fox News will find a loophole in the loophole fixer.
So, when Mom asks you what you learned today at the computer, you got something.
Okay, when Trump up and decided for no good reason whosoever that Mike Pence should head up saving us all from Coronavirus when the poor man can’t even save himself from being alone with a woman, it seemed kinda not thought out really well.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who has been leading the coronavirus task force, was blindsided by the White House decision to put Vice President Pence in charge of the response to the virus outbreak, the Washington Post reports. Azar learned of the decision only moments before the Wednesday evening press conference.
In all fairness, that’s when they decided it. If Hope Hicks had not stopped at the bathroom on the way to the press conference, she’d be in charge of it.
And, admit it, y’all didn’t even know who Alex Azar is, did you? You thought he was the guy in charge of changing the light bulbs every five years,
Oh y’all, it’s Louie on the Shame Train.
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Bill finally passed congress, 100 years after 14 year old Emmett Till was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The bill passed congress this week on a 401-4 vote. Louie, of course, was one of the no votes.
Louie says he voted no because the punishment wasn’t strong enough. Yeah, we believe that. Especially since the last thing closest to a lynching I can recall was the 1998 murder of James Byrd, Jr., who, for no reason whatsoever other than the color of his skin, was dragged behind a pickup truck in deep east Texas until his body fell apart in pieces. Three young white nationalists were charged and convicted of his murder.
That was in Louie’s district. James Byrd’s gravesite continues to be defaced to this day, including Louie’s vote.
