Heeerrrrrrre's Johnson

"Beginning on August 28, accompanied by such notables as Civil War hero Admiral David Farragut, Johnson launched an unprecedented speaking tour in the hopes of regaining public and political support. He traveled from Philadelphia to New York City, then through upstate New York and west to Ohio before heading back to Washington, D.C. This "swing around the circle" was marked by an intemperate campaign style in which Johnson personally attacked his Republican opponents in vile and abusive language reminiscent of his Tennessee stump speech harangues. On several occasions, it also appeared that the President had had too much to drink, nearly stumbling from the platform. In the end, the campaign was a disaster for Johnson. One observer later said that the President lost one million Northern voters as a result of his tour. In the election, the anti-Johnson Republicans won two-thirds of both houses, thus sealing Johnson's doom and giving his opponents enough power to override his programs. Later, the House of Representatives, in voting its articles of impeachment against Johnson, would charge him with disgracing his office by attempting to appeal directly to the people for support in the 1866 elections -- something that was considered to be demagogic and beneath the dignity of a President at the time." link

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Im not nearly snobbish enough to say that Jay Leno -- big ups to my peeps at the Burbank Bob's Big Boy, WEST ALAMEDA in the hizzy -- is beneath the office of the President, Im just saying how do you go from crisis and calamity to yukking it up on a comedy program in two weeks times. Its called priorities and as witnessed by the empty treasury department Obama doesnt have his straight. If this guy was a Republican he'd have been laughed out of DC by now. Sad thing about the whole affair is Leno asking Obama about his NCAA picks will be his toughest interview to date.

Update:

"Mr. Leno was even more negative to the House plan, saying it "kind of scared me."

"If the government decides they don't like a guy, all of the sudden hey we're going to tax you, and, boom, and it passes, that's seems a little scary," he said. "It was frightening to me as an American that Congress or whoever could decide I don't like that group, let's pass a law and tax them 90 percent." link

Exactly!