That suggestion is helpfully passed along by Newsweek, who offers us Dr. Ali Ettefagh, who serves as a director of the investment company Highmore Global Corporation:
the first real step of the president-elect of the United States ought to be for a forceful demand for immediate resignation of the sitting president and his vice president. The president-elect ought to enlist the media and the electorate in this call for early resignation. Unlike other democracies, the United States does not have a legal system that allows early elections by a vote of no confidence. With popular pressure and a strong, cool-headed argument via the media, a quick resignation and a special caretaker governance scheme could be crafted for a transition period which, at a minimum, can mitigate further damage and unclog the path.Dr. Ettefagh is actually late to the party--last month Professor Richard Tedlow at the Harvard Business School came up with the idea, but in a more nuanced way:
Assume that Barack Obama wins the election, as polls show is increasingly likely. The following day, Vice President Cheney should be prevailed upon to resign. Using his powers to designate a successor under the 25th Amendment, President Bush should then appoint, and Congress should confirm, Obama as vice president (just as Richard Nixon appointed Gerald Ford vice president in 1973 when Spiro Agnew resigned). Bush himself should then resign, elevating Obama to the presidency - as Ford became president when Nixon resigned. Obama should then appoint Joe Biden as vice president.But if you think Dr. Ettefagh and Prof. Tedlow are jumping the gun, check out Facebook--where groups are forming demanding that Obama be impeached:With Congress's confirmation of Biden, the new administration would be in place, on the job, and ready to tackle the economic crisis - in November, not January. (The electoral college's official ratification of the election results in December would merely rubber-stamp the transition.)
Of course, President Bush has at least 95 different Facebook groups demanding that he be impeached, so Obama has some catching up to do.In Facebook, an "Impeach Barack Obama" group has attracted more than 700 members and a lively debate about the Democrat's election victory on Tuesday over Republican John McCain.
Another Facebook group of the same name has 160 members and urges others to join because "we might as well get a head start on the impeachment of Obama."
"There are a lot of Americans out there that do not fully understand the concept of Socialism or Communism which is why they've elected Obama as president," it says.
Yet another Facebook group, "Impeach Barack Hussein Obama," has 160 members.
It decries that Obama "has voiced support for various unconstitutional programs such as the assault weapons ban, universal healthcare, and various schemes for wealth distribution."
"What are we going to do about it? IMPEACH HIM!" it says.
[Hat tips: Instapundit, Michael Graham and Kathryn Jean Lopez]
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what is most amazing is the fact that Mr Ettefagh writes an editorial from Iran that gets printed in the WaPo and thus News Week , but our journalists get absolutely no editorial space in Iranian tabloids or press .
ReplyDeleteTo me the fact that WaPo alows for this to happen is a gross affront to it's host nation , and a slap in the face of all Americans .
Of Course these are once major American Tabloids who's readership is plummeting almost as fast as their share prices.
Hmmm, has The Washington Post/Newsweek sunk to having to drum up its Iranian readership?
ReplyDeleteWell the liberal illuminati have made some many Obama promises that everbody thinks Obama is going to come in and save the world and maybe our country to. But the reality of it is that it's going to take awhile. People should just slow down and let it's take it's course. It's not like bush can f things up anymore than he has.
ReplyDeleteHistory will judge President Bush down the line--but however it does, it will be with more objectivity that people now are capable of.
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