Newt Gingrich, who voted to impeach Clinton for obstruction of justice, now claims the President can

[FriendlyFire]

Remember cheating on your wife isnt a crime, obstructing justice isnt a crime when you are a Republican
All we need now is for Trump to prejury himself under oath a few times and for Republicans to doublethink themselves into 1984 defending the President. This is what the Deplorables are hearing in there political bubble saddly they will believe it is true.

Newt Gingrich, who voted to impeach Clinton for obstruction of justice, now claims the President can't obstruct justice

"The President of the United States is the chief executive officer of the United States. If he wants to fire the FBI director, all he has to do is fire him," Gingrich said during a brief speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Gingrich's comments immediately sparked brushback on social media, where politics observers were quick to note that the former Georgia congressman had voted to impeach Clinton on articles that included a charge of obstructing justice.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...-president-obstruct-justice-article-1.3253427

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It has to be mentioned that the salamander not only voted for the obstruction of justice article of impeachment, as the speaker of the house he basically wrote the article of impeachment. Consistency is not even in the Republican vocabulary any more.

 

[Gori the Grey]

This "the President can't obstruct justice" argument is the most dangerous development in this whole sad saga, since it's coming not just from the Simpleton but from people (Gingrich and Dershowitz) whose word still carries some weight. What's happening to some of these old codgers' minds (Guiliani is the other one) as come into the orbit of Trump's madness. I never liked Gingrich but I would have given him credit for understanding the Constitution. I used to like Dershowitz's laymans-terms essays about the law. Guiliani stepped up to be America's mayor. They each had a stage when they would have been sensible enough to see what Trump is about and be among those resisting his encroachments on constitutionality.

 

[Hrothbern]

This "the President can't obstruct justice" argument is the most dangerous development in this whole sad saga, since it's coming not just from the Simpleton but from people (Gingrich and Dershowitz) whose word still carries some weight. What's happening to some of these old codgers' minds (Guiliani is the other one) as come into the orbit of Trump's madness. I never liked Gingrich but I would have given him credit for understanding the Constitution. I used to like Dershowitz's laymans-terms essays about the law. Guiliani stepped up to be America's mayor. They each had a stage when they would have been sensible enough to see what Trump is about and be among those resisting his encroachments on constitutionality.

How many American voters understand some of the basics of the Constitution ?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Not many, I'm afraid. Civics education has declined to the point where the very term sounds quaint.

But at one time, say 30-40 years ago, a high school education involved getting some of these principles--with what i can now acknowledge was a kind of patriotic if not jingoistic spin: we were a great nation, in part because of the genius of our written constitution, whose chief glory was the notion of separation of powers and its pitting those powers against each other in ways that checked the possible and historically witnessed abuses of pure monarchy, oligarchy or democracy; that we are a nation that observes the rule of law, with no one being above the law; that the freedoms of assembly and the press and freedom of conscience for religious worship, and yes even gun ownership, were hard won and crucial to the effective operation of our messy and worst-except-for-all-the-others political system; that they required active ongoing effort to preserve.

Just this little constellation (which maybe takes a month or two to impart during the high school years) doesn't seem much in the forefront of the minds of the American populace at present.

 

[Ajidica]

NEWSFLASH: Newt Gingrich is a rolly-polly ball of pure evil.
More at 11.

 

[Hrothbern]

Not many, I'm afraid. Civics education has declined to the point where the very term sounds quaint.

But at one time, say 30-40 years ago, a high school education involved getting some of these principles--with what i can now acknowledge was a kind of patriotic if not jingoistic spin: we were a great nation, in part because of the genius of our written constitution, whose chief glory was the notion of separation of powers and its pitting those powers against each other in ways that checked the possible and historically witnessed abuses of pure monarchy, oligarchy or democracy; that we are a nation that observes the rule of law, with no one being above the law; that the freedoms of assembly and the press and freedom of conscience for religious worship, and yes even gun ownership, were hard won and crucial to the effective operation of our messy and worst-except-for-all-the-others political system; that they required active ongoing effort to preserve.

Just this little constellation (which maybe takes a month or two to impart during the high school years) doesn't seem much in the forefront of the minds of the American populace at present.

My two daughters got a lot based on WW2 but much less on the general constitution, and the 18th century philosophy behind it, than I had 45 years ago.

Come to think on it
I would rather live in a country that adheres truly to that constitution and where my democratic voting rights are reduced to once every other election,
than a country where I can vote all the time but with too many politicians and too many press/media that are just using the constitution as part of their toolkit to take out the other party.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yeah, that Plato guy was on to something.