Yeah, It's A Quiet Constitutional Crisis

I think there are numerous signs now that the lizard people are scrambling for a Plan B:

• Hillary Clinton 2024 Gains Steam
• Biden-Cheney 2024?
• VP Harris Dodges on if There Will Be Same 2024 Democrat Ticket
• Nancy Pelosi's Eyebrows Are A Thing -- No, Really
• Nancy Pelosi makes millions off tech stocks

It's becoming harder and harder to finesse the failure of the Biden-Pelosi agenda, and one sign of it is, as I pointed out yesterday, that the elevation of the speaker's eyebrows is an annual event that up to now has caused little comment. Today, it's a thing.

One did not, up to now, disrespect the speaker. Indeed, the direct comparison to Michael Jackson raises the even less mentionable circumstance, that Speaker Pelosi's public persona is basically that of a drag queen. The media at this point, now that her signature issue is lost, has no reason to cover for her.

It's also significant that Hillary Clinton is reemerging as a potential cure to the problem:

In the last few weeks, Hillary Clinton has been all over the media, sounding warning bells about the midterm elections and the dangers of President Trump returning to the White House in 2024. Many commentators wondered if she was positioning herself to run for president again.

. . . The rumor mill cranking was crazy enough. Now two long-time Clintonites are advocating for it. Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein opined for 17 paragraphs on the case for the Empress of Chappaqua to run in 2024. Their reasoning is pretty astounding. First, they note Joe Biden’s age; he will be 82 at reelection time. They also note Vice President Kamala Harris’s unpopularity, which surprised no one who watched the Democratic primary. She was the first to drop out, and black voters never flocked to her. She did not even lead in her home state of California.

Unfortunately, as Schoen and Stein note, there is not another leading Democrat burning up the national stage ahead of 2024. The attempts to make Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg a thing fizzled. The other prominent members of the administration have approval ratings hovering around 30%. Former stars have also lost their shine. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace. California Gov. Gavin Newsom faced a recall and has radical COVID policies that are unpopular nationally. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s tin pot dictator, faces reelection in 2022, and it is not clear she will be successful.

All of this while President Brandon, still with days remaining in his first year in office and, unable to secure unanimous votes for his program in his own party, is effectively denouncing fellow Democrats as domestic terrorists. And the lizard people are out of Democrat options, while the entire line of presidential succession is hemorrhaging credibility. In 1974, the lizard people were able to resolve a constitutional crisis (effectively of their own making) quite smoothly.

This constitutional crisis, while it's certainly the result of electoral consequences that were of the lizard people's making, has spiraled into something beyond their control. They don't have ready replacements for Agnew and Nixon the way they did in 1974. The best outcome we can hope for is a year, or maybe three, of this bizarre comedy.