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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 10:46 PM Apr 2018

Another Reminder for the GOP

During the entire time that Bill Clinton was being investigated for Whitewater, which led to an investigation into his affair with Monica Lewinsky that ultimately led to impeachment, he never shirked his duties as President and Commander-in-Chief.

He never used his position as POTUS to whine and complain about his predicament; he never allowed the goings-on around him to distract from governing the country, or from doing the people’s business – nor did the Democrats in office ever point to those ongoing investigations as an excuse to not execute their own duties as elected officials.

Since Trump has been under investigation, the constant cry from the Republicans has been that he can’t pursue his so-called “agenda” due to the dark cloud hanging over his administration, and they themselves can’t pursue the important business of the nation as a result thereof.

So the obvious questions are: Why was Bill Clinton able to competently and successfully do his job as POTUS under circumstances that Trump can’t function under at all? Why is the Republican party claiming they are prevented from doing the people’s business because their pResident is “under a cloud”? If Trump is the “very stable genius” he claims to be, why is he so glaringly incapable of performing his duties while being obsessed instead with who is saying what about him on TV?

The answer is as obvious as the questions: your “pResident” is a fucking moron, whose only concern is his own criminality finally being exposed.

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Another Reminder for the GOP (Original Post) NanceGreggs Apr 2018 OP
K&R... spanone Apr 2018 #1
Plus he's guilty MaryMagdaline Apr 2018 #2
Great point! C Moon Apr 2018 #15
K&R...spit on Nance! Docreed2003 Apr 2018 #3
He is indeed a "fucking moron." I could not have said it better. Thank you, Nance. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2018 #4
Uh huh mcar Apr 2018 #5
Shit, even Nixon was able to function as president during the Watergate investigation. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #6
... NanceGreggs Apr 2018 #7
I don't recall him ever talking about the investigation at length during any official event. EffieBlack Apr 2018 #8
I've heard both Paul Begala and James Carville NanceGreggs Apr 2018 #12
Yep. I remember that. calimary Apr 2018 #16
How times have changed for the worst. Wellstone ruled Apr 2018 #9
It really IS unbelievable. NanceGreggs Apr 2018 #10
Said the day that Trump and his Crime Syndicate lucked out a Wellstone ruled Apr 2018 #11
Incisive as a razor, and all true. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2018 #13
Mr. Ed was a stable genius The Wizard Apr 2018 #14

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)
6. Shit, even Nixon was able to function as president during the Watergate investigation.
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 11:20 PM
Apr 2018

I didn't like much about what he was doing as president - especially regarding the Vietnam war - but at least he didn't blow off his job to blubber and whine constantly about how unfairly he was being treated. This is way beyond the "I am not a crook" speech. Nixon was a crook but he wasn't a fucking moron.

 

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
8. I don't recall him ever talking about the investigation at length during any official event.
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 11:24 PM
Apr 2018

He kept that mess far away from his governance.

NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
12. I've heard both Paul Begala and James Carville
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 11:57 PM
Apr 2018

… discuss (years after the fact) that the WH was immediately “compartmentalized”. There were staffers whose only task was dealing with the investigation/impeachment issues, and there were staffers who only worked on day-to-day, regular WH business issues. And the two groups were forbidden to talk to each other about the details of what each were doing.

That’s why the administration never missed a beat, and the people’s business was looked after regardless of what turmoil was ongoing in the media and the public court of opinion. Bill made it clear that he had a job to do, and it was going to be "business as usual" as far as his duties were concerned.

Bill never missed a meeting, a phone call, an event due to his personal troubles – and never complained to the citizenry about “being persecuted, being attacked”, et cetera.

It’s just another glaring example of just how self-absorbed Spanky McShithouse is – “If I’m unhappy, nothing else matters - not even the country.”

calimary

(81,297 posts)
16. Yep. I remember that.
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 01:44 AM
Apr 2018

I remember marveling at the way he could stay focused on the people’s business.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. How times have changed for the worst.
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 11:29 PM
Apr 2018

Clinton gets a BJ and the Rethugs led by Newt go for Impeachment. Trump tries to overthrow our Government with the Help of a Foreign Power and a couple of Oligarchs,and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell will not do their Constitutional Jobs.

NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
10. It really IS unbelievable.
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 11:37 PM
Apr 2018

The term "you can't make this shit up" has lost all meaning. We are learning that there is no whacked-out made-up shit that could possibly be wackier than the current reality.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
11. Said the day that Trump and his Crime Syndicate lucked out a
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 11:45 PM
Apr 2018

fluke of a Election. Trump's second Season of White House Reality TV. Sponsored by Koch Industries and Broadcasted on Fox so called News.

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
14. Mr. Ed was a stable genius
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 12:46 AM
Apr 2018

And he spoke in complete sentences, clearly articulating his thoughts. Trump on the other hand (fill in the blank).
He's doing an Albert Anastasia imitation, and doing it poorly. Everybody Google Albert Anastasia.
Will Trump take the Herman Goering exit strategy, or R. Budd Dwyer?

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