If Only 'Being a Colossal Dick' Was an Impeachable Offense

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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a13030298/trump-obama-military/


If Only 'Being a Colossal Dick' Was an Impeachable Offense

We could avoid some of the constant embarrassment.
By Charles P. Pierce
Oct 16, 2017


Every day in every way, I am sorry that the Founders didn't include Being A Colossal Dick to the list of impeachable offenses in the Constitution. Bribery, Treason, Other High Crimes And Misdemeanors, Including Ye Being A Colossal Dicke. See, it wouldn't have been that hard and at least we would be rid of embarrassing scenes like the one that played out on the White House grounds on Monday. From Josh's joint:

"The toughest calls I have to make are the calls where this happens — soldiers are killed. It's a very difficult thing. Now it gets to a point where you make four or five of them in one day, it's a very, very tough day. For me that's by far the toughest. So the traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls, a lot of them didn't make calls. I like to call when it's appropriate, when I think I'm able to do it."

This is a guy who's just bone-deep dishonorable. He knows how readily falsifiable a claim it is. (Politico already has an account of Obama aides climbing the walls.) He backpedaled a little when asked a follow-up question about how much he really knows about what other presidents did in those situations. (Evergreen Pro Tip: Next to nothing.)

But why make the assertion at all? Because he knows that tens of millions of Americans are right now emailing and texting each other about how Obummer never called the families of soldiers who were KIA. A third of the country will believe it by Thursday no matter how much we mock it, or how often it is exposed for the sickening fabrication that it is. I'm sure Benghazi, Benghazi!, Benghazi! is in there somewhere, too.

[marylandblue]

1. Actually, according to Benjamin Franklin, being a colossal dick is an impeachable offense.

Franklin, not being a colossal dick himself, used the more polite term, "render himself obnoxious," but it's the same idea.

[Fozzledick]

2. Wasn't that what Dick Nixon was impeached for?