Updated and bumped Watching Biden puts me in mind of something that P.G. Wodehouse wrote about one of his characters. He wrote that "he looked as if he had been stuffed in a hurry by an incompetent taxidermist".
I was curious about the steps that would be required to replace Biden, so I went to the horse's mouth (er, depending on your perspective). Here is Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank and a Democratic National Committee member, responding to questions posed by Reuters.
Essentially, if Biden refuses to step down, it becomes difficult to replace him, but not absolutely impossible. The Resident met with other members of his crime family at Camp David this weekend, and they apparently urged him to stay in the race (Hunter Biden was especially adamant, for obvious reasons).
And Jill, of course, wants to hang on to all those First Lady perquisites.
Michelle Obama is the only alternate choice that scares me to death. As for the others ... meh.
ReplyDeleteI hope Dirty Old Joe stays in to the last second.
DOCTOR Jill DOCTOR Biden, Ed.D looks just like the shouting lady in that cat meme.
ReplyDeleteAs for the legality of Joe remaining or being replaced, the Donks do what they do and wait for the courts to catch up. Because, as they love to intone sonorously, nobody is above the law. And then they all snicker for some reason.
I kind of half expect them to decide to leave him as the nominee. If he wins, sometime after his inauguration they'll go the 25th Amendment route, and let Knees Harris take over. That way, the people really in charge won't change and they can continue their agenda uninterrupted.
ReplyDeleteIf he loses, election denial will be acceptable again, and they'll just continue pursuing their agenda in a different way.
I sent a note to the VP's White House email to encourage her to call a meeting of the Cabinet and invoke the 25th amendment; trying to position her for success, don't you know.
ReplyDeleteTucker Carlson:
ReplyDelete'From an unusually good source: Obama’s tweet supporting Joe Biden was disingenuous. In private, Obama is telling people Biden can’t win, and he is therefore in favor of an open convention. Obama will not say whom he supports, nor as of yesterday afternoon had he met personally with Biden to deliver the message. Relations between the Obamas and the Bidens have never been warm. At times they’ve been hostile. But recently they’ve deteriorated further, mostly due to Jill Biden. In the hours and days after the debate, she kept her husband cloistered away from anyone who might convince him to drop out....'
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1807682297862172999
Jill's gone rogue? With this Anthony Bernal, her enforcer?
Kamala really needs to go the 25th amendment route now, this week, TODAY, before the convention, where the Party will push her out, now, while the memory of the debate is fresh; definitely cement the First Woman, what ever, President title onto herself, then she's uncancellable.
ReplyDeleteMuch as I can't stand Kamala, I prefer her to Jill by a mile.
ReplyDeleteJill's just afraid that if Joe is booted, she's going to have to start emptying his bedpans.
ReplyDeleteDanged if I can find the link, but one pundit had a good analysis on how Jill is more likely to be the power behind the throne (so to speak), backed up by Hunter.
ReplyDeleteIf so, no wonder the "family" meeting resulted in Joe refusing to step aside, and the subsequent (and very silly) spin on there being "two Joes".