Actually, they probably will because this is the first law of contemporary politics: There is no such thing as rock bottom.
On Thursday Rosenstein is expected to speak with the president, presumably because of last week's report that in May 2017, Rosenstein spoke, in the presence of other senior Justice Department officials, about possibly wearing a wire to surreptitiously record the president, presumably to facilitate invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him.
The amendment requires the vice president and a majority of the president's cabinet to notify Congress that they consider the president "Unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
Were the turmoil in the Justice Department, which is headed by the precariously placed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, exacerbated by the firing of Rosenstein, this would provide yet another occasion, this one fewer than 41 days before 435 House and 35 Senate elections, for congressional Republicans to remind voters of the purity of their fealty to the president.
In 1924, Trotsky groveled at the Communist party conference in an attempt to crawl back into the good graces of Lenin's widow, Stalin, and others not famous for forgiving deviations from party positions.
Trotsky said: "Comrades, none of us wishes to be nor can be right against our party. In the last analysis, the party is always right."
Mystified Americans watching Washington's current spasms surely know that their supposedly representative government does not now represent the nation's much lower emotional metabolism.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/american-politics-no-rock-bottom-brett-kavanaugh-rod-rosenstein/
On Thursday Rosenstein is expected to speak with the president, presumably because of last week's report that in May 2017, Rosenstein spoke, in the presence of other senior Justice Department officials, about possibly wearing a wire to surreptitiously record the president, presumably to facilitate invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him.
The amendment requires the vice president and a majority of the president's cabinet to notify Congress that they consider the president "Unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
Were the turmoil in the Justice Department, which is headed by the precariously placed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, exacerbated by the firing of Rosenstein, this would provide yet another occasion, this one fewer than 41 days before 435 House and 35 Senate elections, for congressional Republicans to remind voters of the purity of their fealty to the president.
In 1924, Trotsky groveled at the Communist party conference in an attempt to crawl back into the good graces of Lenin's widow, Stalin, and others not famous for forgiving deviations from party positions.
Trotsky said: "Comrades, none of us wishes to be nor can be right against our party. In the last analysis, the party is always right."
Mystified Americans watching Washington's current spasms surely know that their supposedly representative government does not now represent the nation's much lower emotional metabolism.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/american-politics-no-rock-bottom-brett-kavanaugh-rod-rosenstein/
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