Posted on 06/30/2017 5:23:01 PM PDT by springwater13
A Democratic congressman has proposed convening a special committee of psychiatrists and other doctors whose job would be to determine if President Donald Trump is fit to serve in the Oval Office.
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who also teaches constitutional law at American University, has predictably failed to attract any Republicans to his banner.
But the U.S. Constitution's 25th Amendment does allow for a majority of the president's cabinet, or 'such other body as Congress may by law provide,' to decide if an Oval Office occupant is unable to carry out his duties – and then to put it to a full congressional vote.
Vice President Mike Pence would also have to agree, which could slow down the process – or speed it up if he wanted the levers of power for himself.
The 25th Amendment has been around since shortly after the John F. Kennedy assassination, but Congress has never formed its own committee in case it's needed to judge a president's mental health.
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I regularly hire attorneys as part of the businesses I run.
Let’s just say being a graduate from Yale or Harvard is NOT a plus in my book. Not a disqualified, but NOT a plus...
I see no chance whatsoever that Veep Pence would consdier this for a moment. By all appearances he is held in high esteem by the POTUS for his effectiveness, and especially, his loyalty. Of course it won’t get that far.
The demoncrats couldn’t win the election, so now they want to stage a coup. There is no other word for this.
“Two dozen Democrats get behind bill to lay foundation for removing Trump”
And 189 didn’t.
mistype:
And 169 didn’t.
Let me issue the standard disclaimer of psychiatrists who discuss the mental health of public figures: I have not personally examined President Trump.
Now, let me put to rest the concerns of Sen. Al Franken and political commentators John Oliver and Andrew Sullivan and anyone else who publicly or privately has questioned the president’s sanity:
Donald Trump is stone cold sane.
When a man acquires billions of dollars through complex real estate transactions, invests in many countries, goes on to phenomenal success in television and turns his name into a worldwide brand, it is very unlikely that he is mentally unstable.
When the same man obviously enjoys the love and respect of his children and his wife, who seem to rely on him for support and guidance, it is extraordinarily unlikely that he is mentally unstable.
When the same man walks into the political arena and deftly defeats 16 Republican opponents and then the Democratic heir-apparent to a two-term president’s administration, the odds of that man being mentally unstable become vanishingly thin.
And when that very same man attracts to his team the kind of intellect and gravitas represented (to name just a few) by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general and commander of the U.S. Central Command, he cannot be mentally deranged. Period. It is a statistical impossibility.
Those who assert otherwise are political opportunists, or fools, or both (and I am thinking here, in particular, of Sen. Franken).
President Trump is the first human being to win this nation’s highest office without having held any other political office or serving as a general. Most political pundits thought his quest was pure folly. Most journalists assessed his chances as zero. So who was laboring under quasi-delusional thinking? Answer: Not Donald J. Trump.
Anecdotally, by the way, I have never had one bad Trump experience. Not one. I own several of his ties — all of them of the highest quality. I have stayed in his hotels and never had a single complaint (and I am a born complainer). I have eaten in his New York restaurant — flawless service, excellent food. I own an apartment at Trump Place in Manhattan. Impeccable design, sturdy construction, fabulous amenities. A mentally unstable man would be unlikely to deliver superior products across multiple industries, don’t you think?
If you’re still worried about the mental stability of the president, note this: The stock market doesn’t like instability. Investors, en masse, can take the measure of a man pretty darn well. The stock market has hit record high after record high since Trump’s election, and if you think that’s an accident, or that investors have all been fooled, it’s time to start wondering about your own capacity for rational thought.
I should note that nothing I am saying should besmirch the reputations of men like President Abraham Lincoln or Sir Winston Churchill, both of whom are said to have fought the ravages of major depression or bipolar disorder. One was instrumental in ridding America of slavery. The other was instrumental in saving the world from tyranny. Mahatma Gandhi, by the way, also reportedly suffered from depression. Psychiatric illness does not, a priori, disqualify a person from rendering extraordinary service to mankind.
Mind you, neither Lincoln nor Churchill nor Gandhi led a nation after becoming a business sensation and television star. That trifecta defines one man: President Donald J. Trump.
Now, think about those who are rabble-rousing about the president’s mental status. Take Sen. Al Franken. He’s all worried about the president allegedly overestimating the crowd size at his inauguration. But Franken is allied with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who asserted she is Native American, when there is no evidence of that whatsoever.
And they’re calling Trump’s sanity into question? Really, you can’t make this stuff up.
Keith Ablow
Apply Solzhenitsyn’s inoculation for their societal disease.
BtW, was McCain one of the democraps?
Russia was a FAIL. Now this. Another fail. Delusional.
The XXV Amendment allows such a body “as Congress shall by law provide”.
I do not imagine President Trump would sign such a law.
Alinsky #13
...”The demoncrats couldn’t win the election, so now they want to stage a coup. There is no other word for this”...
It really would not have mattered to them which Republican won...they’d be doing this anyway....the difference is Trump fights back and does so hard.... and they are having one heck of a time in how to bring him down.
Also they really don’t care how bad their actions look....a lot of markers are being called in on these politicians who have sold themselves to the Global Elite Machinery.....now they have to their dirty work.....willingly so and regardless of what they loss politically doing so....they picked a newbee to head this....lololol...easy to cast aside when they’re done with him.
Does anyone know if under the Patriot Act, the President can declare persons domestic threats or terrorists, and have multiple choice of options on how to deal with them?
If so, I hope he chooses a really effective one.
Vice President Pence needs to come out
this weekend and put a stop to it right
from the start!!
Make a BIG announcement that this is absurd
and childish...call their bluff!!
Oh they’re so desperate!
Keep pushing the envelope lefties. The tables will be turned on you so hard you’ll never know what hit you.
....”Does this mean they see the writing on the wall and are waving the white flag re: Russia?”.....
Appears as if the new mantra is going to be ...’Trump’s not well”...”There’s something wrong there”....”Trump’s not mentally fit”.etc, etc. etc....Wash and repeat...so expect that to be their new theme.
Morning Joe and his wife infidelity wife began it....as a pre-lude to this so called “foundation” for removing Trump.
They did this same thing while he was campaigning....didn’t work then and it won’t work now...but it keeps them busy.
“Democrats convene panel to discover how they can quickly die in bloody civil war.”
I own several of his ties — all of them of the highest quality.
WOW
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