dagblog - Comments for "John McCain: &#039;It’s time Congress returns to regular order&#039;" http://dagblog.com/link/john-mccain-mit-s-time-congress-returns-regular-order-23407 Comments for "John McCain: 'It’s time Congress returns to regular order'" en Impeaching Trump is a long http://dagblog.com/comment/242557#comment-242557 <a id="comment-242557"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/john-mccain-mit-s-time-congress-returns-regular-order-23407">John McCain: &#039;It’s time Congress returns to regular order&#039;</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/impeaching-trump-is-a-long-shot-theres-another-way-to-protect-the-country/2017/09/04/78dd58bc-8d96-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?tid=pm_pop&amp;utm_term=.0cf70ab80de6">Impeaching Trump is a long shot. There’s another way to protect the country.</a></p> <p>Op-ed by Robert Kagan @ WashingtonPost.com, Sept. 4</p> <blockquote> <p>With the impeachment and removal of President Trump a long shot at best, there is another way to provide the country some protection from our unfit president: congressional government. The idea may seem far-fetched in this era of the “imperial presidency,” but there have been times in the nation’s history, especially in the decades after the Civil War but also to a lesser extent during the 1920s, when Congress ran the show on many critical matters and the president dared take no action without the approval of powerful committee chairmen [....]</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post. He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988. </em></p> </div></div></div> Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:14:11 +0000 artappraiser comment 242557 at http://dagblog.com In the picture on the right http://dagblog.com/comment/242501#comment-242501 <a id="comment-242501"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/john-mccain-mit-s-time-congress-returns-regular-order-23407">John McCain: &#039;It’s time Congress returns to regular order&#039;</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In the picture on the right one can see two Cosmopolitans dining al fresco on the banks of Lake Como before they plot with their Euro compadres tomorrow at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosetti_Forum">Ambrosetti Forum</a> to make America a loser again:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Great to be at the Ambrosetti Forum in lovely Lake Como <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Italy?src=hash">#Italy</a> - look forward to discussing the need for strong American leadership tomorrow <a href="https://t.co/EnuRvKn8DH">pic.twitter.com/EnuRvKn8DH</a></p> — John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/903668344594804736">September 1, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Sat, 02 Sep 2017 06:25:05 +0000 artappraiser comment 242501 at http://dagblog.com