16 Jun 2022 12:52 pm
I don't think you're interpreting the 25th Amendment completely or correctly. Sec. 4 states that, "Whenever the VP and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments OR OF SUCH OTHER BODY AS CONGRESS (highlight is mine) MAY BY LAW PROVIDE, TRANSMIT TO THE PRESIDENT PROTEMPORE OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THEIR WRITTEN DECLARATION THAT THE PRESIDENT IS UNABLE TO DISCHARGE THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE, the VP shall IMMEDIATELY assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."Skans » 16 Jun 2022, 9:34 am » wrote: ↑ The 25th Amendment is a non-starter. Under the 25th Amendment, the President himself can declare himself unfit to continue. Or, the president's cabinet is the only body that is authorized to act with the vice president to remove Biden for incompetency under the 25th Amendment. This just isn't going to happen.
What will happen is that Biden will serve out his term, but the Dems will make sure that absolutely no donations or funding will go toward financing any attempted run for a 2nd term. They will cut Biden's legs out from under him by diverting cash away from his attempt to put a campaign team together. No one will want to work on Biden's campaign knowing that there is no funding for this. Pelosi, Schumer, Jaime Harrison, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Korge, Roger Lau, Donald Sussman, James Simons, and George Marcus are cutting Biden's campaign money off. Biden may not need brains, but he sure as **** needs money. They are all behind the scenes this very moment scheming to see who they will back in the Dem primary.
To my understanding, that means that should Republicans gain control of both the House and the Senate, THEY HAVE THE POWER to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove a sitting president providing they have majorities in both houses that agree in writing to invoke that amendment.
A president suffering from obvious dementia and cognitive reasoning as Biden has is precisely why the 25th was written. This fool needs to be in a park feeding the ducks, and NOT with complete control of our nuclear arsenal!