No, @Sanguine , quite the other way around. I am not casting stones at his character - He has done that himself, over, and over, and over again. I just refuse to gloss it over because he makes the trains run on time.
@roamer_1 I still remember with sad amusement all those among the Trump sycophancy who saw fit to compare him to King David. Considering his performance in office and his only-too-obvious Constitutional witlessness and obliviousness (
Article II says I can do what I want!, among other falsehoods), I can't help thinking it might be more appropriate to compare him to Moses.
Stop laughing, ATs and NTs, and ponder, as I did on another thread a couple of days ago:
When Moses's Israelites cried for water, God instructed Moses to speak to a certain rock at Horeb to bring forth water for the parched, rather than to strike it as once before God instructed. But the people's impatience got the better of Moses and, thus, he struck the rock with his staff rather than speak to it as God now commanded.
Moses got the desired result, of course, as the water came forth and the people drank, but getting the people what they wanted didn't take Moses off the hook for disobeying his Supreme Authority. Thus did God deny Moses himself entry into the Promised Land with the Israelites. (God was kind enough to
show Moses the Promised Land from the top of Mount Nebo before kissing His servant and taking him home, but that was it.)
Now, if Moses himself couldn't get away with contravening a Supreme Authority, how the hell can a president of the United States or a Congress---
any president,
any Congress, never mind President Tweety and the Capitol Zoo, never mind the current aspirants to the White House and the Capitol---get away with contravening the supreme temporal American authority of the Constitution of the United States, as not only they but a considerable volume of presidents and Congresses did over several generations prior?