They said “How could she run against a cabinet she was part of” like this isn’t the exact sort of thing poliicians are good at.
“While I am proud of the good that Joe and I were able to achieve while in office (list policies you support and that are popular), we don’t see eye to eye on every issue, such as (unpopular policy).”
disagree. Sitting VP is the only position in the white house that cannot be removed at will of the President (by rule of law, so you know, drone strike excepted). That’s a good thing, because it means they can and should speak out against unpopular policies and use their profile and position to be an additional check on the powers of the presidency. She could have eviscerated his support by declaring him unfit to rule, a war criminal, and promised to do better, and there’s nothing (constitutionally speaking) that could have been done to retaliate against her. If votes came up in the Senate to progress his war criminal agenda she could have tie breaker voted against them, she could have used the prestige of her position to speak to the press constantly about an insider perspective of his cruelty and sun downing, but no, she was a a good little minion waiting her turn to drive the genocide machine. It’s the ultimate cowardice. I hear libs say “what could she have done? she was underneath him…” and it’s like, mother fucker she is the most job stable ‘underling’ in fucking history. Use that for literally anything other than gleeful compliance.
the way party politics has been since 2000 that would never happen, and it only happened a little bit with Gore because they wanted distance from the sex thing not policy.
In a hypothetical world, the administration could have pulled it off as a purely symbolic stunt to “force concessions” Joe Manchin style if Kamala’s campaign had really wanted. Hypothetical because that would require the party to pander to the people and do that, instead of just the billionaire donors
They said “How could she run against a cabinet she was part of” like this isn’t the exact sort of thing poliicians are good at.
“While I am proud of the good that Joe and I were able to achieve while in office (list policies you support and that are popular), we don’t see eye to eye on every issue, such as (unpopular policy).”
What’s biden gonna do, fire her?
honestly if sitting VPs had to resign to run for president that would probably be beneficial for everybody
disagree. Sitting VP is the only position in the white house that cannot be removed at will of the President (by rule of law, so you know, drone strike excepted). That’s a good thing, because it means they can and should speak out against unpopular policies and use their profile and position to be an additional check on the powers of the presidency. She could have eviscerated his support by declaring him unfit to rule, a war criminal, and promised to do better, and there’s nothing (constitutionally speaking) that could have been done to retaliate against her. If votes came up in the Senate to progress his war criminal agenda she could have tie breaker voted against them, she could have used the prestige of her position to speak to the press constantly about an insider perspective of his cruelty and sun downing, but no, she was a a good little minion waiting her turn to drive the genocide machine. It’s the ultimate cowardice. I hear libs say “what could she have done? she was underneath him…” and it’s like, mother fucker she is the most job stable ‘underling’ in fucking history. Use that for literally anything other than gleeful compliance.
the way party politics has been since 2000 that would never happen, and it only happened a little bit with Gore because they wanted distance from the sex thing not policy.
In a hypothetical world, the administration could have pulled it off as a purely symbolic stunt to “force concessions” Joe Manchin style if Kamala’s campaign had really wanted. Hypothetical because that would require the party to pander to the people and do that, instead of just the billionaire donors
Sure, I’m just saying even by lib logic she has no excuse.
Do you think people holding other political office like senators and governors should also have to resign?
eh, a senator or whatever has more leash to disagree with the administration.