This Incredibly Bizarre Presidency Just Keeps Getting More So

I haven't been able to believe so much of what I've read and seen this past 4 years from this President, his presidency and administration. Now, today, there is this.

Pence Should Remove Trump From Office on Sunday

Here's the gist of what they're proposing.

"It may seem extremely unlikely that Mike Pence, who up to this point has been one of Trump’s most craven enablers, would even consider taking advantage of this constitutional power. But it’s always possible that, between now and January 20 when Trump’s term expires, the situation may become so extreme that he and eight other Cabinet members may find the modicum of personal courage and moral decency necessary to do the right thing.

Trump would put up a fight, but it wouldn’t matter this late in his presidency. Once Pence has transmitted the letter to Congress that makes him acting president, Trump may contest the vice-president’s actions via a letter of his own. Section Four, however, would give Pence four days to respond to this letter. After Pence did so, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives could — by simple majority vote — decline to act on the substantive dispute for the remaining 21 days. (Meanwhile, Democrats could filibuster any action in the Senate.) Were it not the end of his term, Trump would return to office after 21 days if Congress failed to act.

This, in effect, means that Pence could become acting president on Sunday, December 27, and would remain in the position for the rest of the current administration’s term in office, as long as House Democrats acceded to the new status quo. For the good of the nation, he should do so this weekend."

So. Very. Bizarre.

Thanks, Republicans.

God help us.

Happy holidays.

Hopefully.

Quote of the Day -- Shallow, Hypocritical, Pandering Presidential Edition

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible."

--Sinclair Lewis

Peaceful Protesters Gassed So Trump Can Do a Sacrilegious Bible Photo Op

Republicans' Plan To Repeal Obamacare---With No Replacement

The media have been reporting that Republicans in Washington have every intention of repealing, at long last, "Obamacare", the Affordable Care Act, also known as the ACA.  They've wanted to for years, of course. They wrote and attempted to pass this repeal at least 60 times in Congress, literally, wasting all that time and energy and so, our American taxpayer dollars, in their efforts.

Meanwhile, more Americans have health insurance for the first time in the nation's history. There are a lot more successes of the program, too.

Obamacare: an unheralded success 

- The Boston Globe

Obamacare Is A Success After All, 

Report Shows Proof

Another Obamacare Success: 

It's Cut Premiums By 30-50%

The success of the Affordable Care Act 

is a hugely inconvenient truth

6 Years After Obamacare's Passage, 

Haters Refuse to Accept Reality

There are rumors out there that the Republicans won't wipe it all away, that they'll keep some of it. It's difficult to tell. What's clear is that, after all these years of not wanting the ACA, they did not have then, nor do they, today, a replacement for it. Likely more than 20 million Americans could, then, lose their health insurance.  Who knows? They surely don't.

What we do know is this, from the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. It was true then, when he said it and it's still patently, sadly true.

I've pointed this out before. We have, beyond measure, the most expensive, exclusive, killing health care system in the world, bar none.

Once again, US has most expensive, 

least effective health care system

It's the most expensive health care system in the world. So much so, it's killing us. We also have the worst, lowest mortality rates of the top 17 industrialized nations.

So yes, we need health care solutions, Republicans.

Please stop putting your political party, your careers and the already-wealthy and corporations ahead of the needs of the American people, the nation.

Link:

GOP launches long-promisedrepeal of Obamacare with 
no full plan to replace it

Medical Bills Are the Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies: Study

Medical Costs is the Number One Cause of Bankruptcy