Jeanine Pirro Quotes

The irony of this quotation is that in later years, Sanford, was involved in his own sex scandal. Sanford refused to resign - see related quote.

He was arrested and jailed. However, often the coups leaders give the president the choice of either resigning or committing suicide if they do not murder him directly.

Lewis had sent Nkrumah is resignation. He believed that the economic policies that Nkrumah had chosen against his advice, risked economic disaster for Ghana in the long run. Nkrumah had wanted to invest very scarce country resources in “prestige projects” which had high visibility in the country and to the world but really just drained capital and did not develop infrastructure or economic capability of the country. He felt that if the people could be proud enough of their new nation and the world could respect them, the future would be better. So for example, he opened diplomatic missions throughout South America while at that time, Ghana was doing no business with South America. Lewis turned out to have been right, and Nkrumah had gambled and lost. Ghana had very little economic development or improvement in standard of living.

In the beginning of the 21st century political hyper-polarization made Congressional gridlock the norm. Anything that was acceptable to the Democrats would be rejected by the Republicans and vica versa. However, at times, the public would be impassioned by events and demand Congressional action. A movement for gun control after a serious of massacres with assault weapons in 2012 was the example that Thomas was using. If the legislative process could be stretched out until public passions waned, the normal gridlo{78528}k would control and there would be no reform.

The speaker had negotiated a wonderful budget with President Barak Obama, but he had many extreme Republican Tea Party Conservatives who would not support the compromise. The speaker could have passed the bill anyway with the votes of the Democrats and the more rational and centrist Republicans, but he chose not do do so and renegged on his fairly public agreement with the President rather than have a large part of his caucus repudiate him. Talk show host Jay Leno had asked him why de did that. This was his profound answer. Ironically, the dissidents turned on him anyway, and he lost many of his followers. So he resigned as the speaker and also from the House itself

As Speaker of the House with a President of the other party, Boehner, like previous House Speakers, met with the president and his staff in order to work out a compromise budget, for all money bills must originate in the House of Representatives. However, Boehner had a faction of his Republican caucus—Tea Party Republicans—who wanted no compromises with the Democrats and the President at all. They were so radical that they would rather put the country into default on its debts than vote for a compromise budget or pass any other legislation that would either require compromise of would even make President Obama appear to have been successful. Whenever they perceived that Boehner was negotiating with the President they would attack the speaker and stop House business. Hence the speaker’s famous quote about sneaking into the White House.