President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

In retrospect, reading about how he uncovered every rock trying to find out how he could not do his Constitutional duty to certify the electoral college vote, it's too bad the Secret Service just didn't turn him loose to see if the terrorists were serious or not. I'm sure he would have been treated kindly by the tourists.

I'm convinced there will never be effective national government in this country until term limits for Senators (12 years), House (12 years) and Supreme Court (15 years) go into effect, and until the electoral college is eliminated. The slave states still run the country, just as the electoral college intended.

 

One time, Dan Quayle was in the same bowling alley as a few of my classmates and me on a random summer afternoon (it was a real class at a real bowling alley). Told him I loved Murphy Brown.

 

In 1978, President Ford played in the L.A. Open pro-am. Got a great quote that day. An older woman had her lawn chair set up around the 13th green, just watching as the groups played through. Then, a surge of people encircled the green and several men, all dressed in brand-new golf wear, pushed through the crowd to be in front. They all had communications devices, the wires under their shirts snaking up to an earpiece. The woman saw this and say, "Oh my, such nice looking young men, and they're all deaf."

They brought Ford into the press room. I got to meet him and shake his hand. There was a 10-minute interview and he was gone.

 

All is projection.

 

Biden talked baseball with the Pope. Sorta.

 

"Hey Frankie, avoid those fried meats, they anger up the blood. And avoid running."

 

They've met before. Several times. I expect this is part of an ongoing series of shaggy dog stories they share.

 

Complete non-sequitur:

Doing some genealogy research today and found out I’m related to Millard Fillmore. Is there a more disappointing President to find out is in your lineage?

 

That was '68 ...

 

"Don't look back. Satan may be gaining on you."