Or maybe a memorial to his personal Vietnam

This is taking the “dismantling of the administrative state” a bit too literally…

He was shaking so many hands over the holiday, he was using both hands to do it!

Recall on Trump? In what scenario would this happen?

God has the final word on Donald Trump. Someday, when he eats his last cheeseburger.

If God issues His Ultimate Recall vote on Trump, Vance immediately becomes President, and the office of the VP becomes vacant.

To fill it, President Vance would need to nominate someone, who would have to be approved by both the House and Senate.

But McConnell started a precedent that says that Congress can keep the position vacant by simply refusing to hold the vote.

Even so, a very good election night for Democrats in the upper chamber would only bring the Senate to 50-50, with a Republican VP serving as the tie-breaker,” he said.

If I were writing the script, I would have the Democrats win that 50/50 split in the Senate, then have the President eat his final cheeseburger. Then, Schumer will invoke the “McConnell” doctrine to sit on the VP appointment and not bring it to a vote at all. We lived without a SC Justice for nearly a year, and they are much more important than the VP.

The only poll that matters is in November

They get permission to hate the people they want to hate. See? They think it is a fair deal.

Wait, you mean the guy who owned a beauty pageant was part of the sex trafficking operation? Who would have guessed that?

He’s not being self aware at all, he’s just whining. It’s a justification for a decision he’s already made.

“We have to do it because nobody else will”. That’s probably the same logic he used to put his name on the Kennedy Center, or his picture on all of his buildings. Doesn’t he want to put his face on a quarter? And Mt Rushmore? Seems to me we’re being forced to memorialize him everywhere.

Congress? That body currently run by Mike Johnson and John Thune?

We’ll get a special prosecutor, all right, and it will be Matt Gaetz.

I look forward to the “Donald J. Trump Memorial” anything.

Not just any Republican, she was Trump’s nominee for UN Ambassador, until that got withdrawn because the Republicans were losing too many House seats to Presidential appointments.

So, she decided to run for Governor, until a better connected male candidate decided to run instead, so she backed out of that.

It seems like her entire year can be summed up by getting screwed over by other Republicans. No wonder she wants out.

When the President does it, it’s not illegal…

“illegitimate” is different than “illegal”. In some context they are the same, but “illegitimate” can also mean “against rules” or “against custom”.

The President nominates these officials, but they take office “with the advice and consent of the Senate”. I take that to mean that after the President consults with the Senate, he makes an appointment, and the Senate is obligated to give an up-or-down vote on it.

I remember that time well, and Merrick Garland (yes, that guy) was the compromise candidate that Obama picked because he had the respect, of a lot of Republican Senators. The Senate had a constitutional duty to put it to an up or down vote, which Mitch ignored, because he would not like the outcome. (If Garland didn’t have any Republican support, after all, they could have just held the vote, and voted it down. But that would have given Obama another chance to nominate someone else.)

There is no law that says “the Senate must act within this period of time”. We can’t haul McConnell to the brig because of it. Yet, it is clear to me that he flat out ignorea something the Constitution obligated him to do. It can be clearly seen as illegitimate, especially when he changed those rules a few years later.

It’s illegitimate because Mitch McConnell refused to hold a vote on Obama’s last SC pick, because he knew it would pass if that vote was held. So he left the SC one member short until Trump won, and they confirmed his pick instead. Basically, he (and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee) exercised a two-person veto on the pick.

He claimed it was too close to an election to act, but then when RBG passed away with even less time before an election, he pressed ahead with Trump’s pick anyway.

He made up a new rule, then abandoned it when it was expedient to do so. If rules mattered, one of those picks would have been different.

A boy can dream, can’t he?

I bet they can’t get any contractor to work on that, because the Administration has already stiffed the demolition crew and nobody wants to touch a job they will never get paid for.