COMMENTARY FROM jeffmoskin

[jeffmoskin]

140 characters = the American attention span.

Sorry Mr. Tolstoy.

[thelivyjr]

Speaking of that, jeffmoskin, do you recall the presidential election of 1876?

[jeffmoskin]

Indeed (although not personally). Hayes v Tilden. No clear winner. Dems threw Tilden under the bus on the sole condition that Hayes as president withdraw federal troops supporting reconstruction in the south, ushering in 100 years of Jim Crow.

[thelivyjr]

Then you must recall Henry Watterson, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and a Democratic congressman from Kentucky, on Jan. 8, 1876, calling for “the presence of at least 10,000 unarmed Kentuckians” to march on Washington to ensure Tilden was elected while Joseph Pulitzer went further, calling for 100,000 people “fully armed and ready for business” to ensure that Tilden became president, while angry Democrat mobs across the country chanted, “Tilden or blood,” and in a dozen states, club-wielding “Tilden Minutemen” had formed threatening to march into Washington to take the White House for their candidate ...

Isn't democracy just the greatest thing since somebody discovered that plain old white bread makes fantastic toast!

[thelivyjr]

In the meantime, tRUMP is becoming a pariah ...

[jeffmoskin]

tRUMP was ALWAYS a pariah. America is just now figuring that out.

[thelivyjr]

That is why so many Americans loved him the way they loved Don Rickles and Jonathan Winters ...

[jeffmoskin]

I thought those guys were funny; I do not think tRUMP is funny.

[jeffmoskin]

Eric Foner suggests (in a WaPo piece today) the the Congress, soon to be Democratic, vote to enforce section 3 of the 14th amendment, which says:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

Only takes a simple majority of both houses, and Biden would likely sign it into law.

And in addition to tRUMP, they could add the member of Congress who were involved.

Then none of these people could ever run for office again.

[thelivyjr]

Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment affected persons who waged war against the Union during the Civil War.

Amendment XIV, Section 3 prohibits any person who had gone to war against the union or given aid and comfort to the nation’s enemies from running for federal or state office, unless Congress by a two-thirds vote specifically permitted it.

Now, why don't I find myself at all surprised ...