Posted on 02/09/2024 6:07:38 AM PST by Red Badger
On Thursday, following the release of the report by Special Counsel Robert Hur, Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott called on the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the President from office.
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Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott says it is time to remove President Biden from office using the 25th Amendment after a scathing Department of Justice report described the severity of Joe's mental decline.
The Department of Justice released its long-awaited investigation into Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents Thursday, delivering a damning assessment of the president's 'diminished faculties' and limited memory.
However, despite finding no wrongdoing by Biden, Special Counsel Robert Hur described Biden as 'a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,' and that 'it would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him.'
The 25th Amendment, which outlines presidential succession, gives the vice president and Cabinet power to remove the commander in chief from office via a majority vote in the event it's determined he or she is no longer fit for office. It has never been invoked in U.S. history.
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The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967, so while it has "never been invoked in U.S. history," it was also not in effect for most of that history. The relevant portion of the amendment states:
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore 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 Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
This is the section that Sen. Scott is urging to be used to remove the noticeably-impaired President from office. And with the President's reaction to the report, as documented by Nick Arama, there is ample proof that this is precisely what needs to happen.
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott said that it's time to invoke the 25th Amendment against president Joe Biden.
'That does not describe someone who should be the Commander in Chief of our armed forces and the defender of American freedoms,' Scott wrote on X in reaction to the report. 'It’s time for his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.'
One could make the argument that it's well past time to invoke the 25th Amendment - or convince President Biden and whoever is pulling his strings to step down, for the good of the country. But then, the good of the country has never been high on Joe Biden's list of priorities.
On a fateful day in 1974, President Richard Nixon met in the Oval Office with a Congressional delegation led by Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. That delegation informed the President that he was not going to survive the upcoming impeachment vote and that, for the good of the country, he should resign and hand the Presidency over to Vice President Gerald Ford. He did so, for the good of the nation, and in time, the nation forgave him; by the time Nixon died, he was seen as something of an elder statesman -- a flawed one, but even so.
Joe Biden appears to have no such notions. He is now in the position of being more selfish, more defiant, and less deserving of the office of the President than Richard Nixon. This damning report speaks eloquently (something Joe Biden is not capable of) to the President's failing faculties. Biden's response is defiance, but the report remains. Too many people have seen it now, and how it paints a vivid picture of a man who cannot remember the day he became Vice President or the day his son died, but who we are supposed to be comfortable with having the authority to command our armed forces, send our sons and daughters off to war, and to authorize the release of nuclear weapons.
Senator Scott is right; the Cabinet needs to act, to send Joe Biden back to his Delaware basement, and if that means we have to suffer the execrable Kamala Harris in the White House until January 2025, so be it.
After last night’s disaster, he should be gone by 5 o’clock this afternoon.................
Seeing as it takes the VP and most or all of the senior cabinet members to put themselves out of a job, there is 0 chance this happens.
The rank & file ‘delegates’ choose nothing, it’s only for show.
The ‘Super Delegates’ have the real power in the Democrat Party.
It is intentionally set up that way to prevent the ‘wrong’ candidate from getting the nomination...................
As I have been saying, they have been pushing him out for the past 14 months.
If you read the regime media, and you can read between the lines, it’s been obvious.
What’s new is he is becoming dangerous, or his disability is making him so.
Moving him out is urgent. The plan to walk Newsom and Whitmer out on the stage at the convention can’t wait. The more Biden the man is attacked the more dangerous the situation becomes.
Hopefully it will be possible for the “men in the grey suits” (Qidam where are you???) to do their work and not get blown up by FJB triumphalism.
Jill will not allow that to happen..................
Last night's speech demonstrated why Biden's handlers would not allow him to do the Super Bowl interview this Sunday. It would have been 30 minutes of free air time in front of a large audience that he could have used to tell voters why he deserved to be reelected. His handlers, however, knew it would be far too risky to allow him to go on TV unscripted like that. Last night the whole nation saw how cognitively impaired Biden is. This morning, the Democrats know they have a big problem on their hands.
This report really is nothing. We’ve all seen Biden in action for four years. It started even before he became president. Initially, he could hide it with press protection so he won in 2020. Its at the point where it can’t be hidden even with press protection. It seems to me that the report is a big FU by the prosecutor to the Biden Administration. The prosecutor knew going in he couldn’t indict Biden. So he did the next best thing - say Biden should be indicted but say he’s too old and senile.
The problem is that the 25th Amendment is for physical infirmity, not mental. Per Section 4, all Demented Joe has to do after the 25th is invoked is send two letters to resume being POTUS. It then takes a 2/3rds vote in both the House and Senate to get rid of him. (Impeachment is only a simple majority in the House and 2/3rds of the Senate)
Here is the Amendment in full:
Amendment XXV
Section 1.
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2.
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3.
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore 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 Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore 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. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
As I have been saying, they have been pushing him out for the past 14 months.
If you read the regime media, and you can read between the lines, it’s been obvious.
What’s new is he is becoming dangerous, or his disability is making him so. He may stop listening to Jarrett or Obama and get the idea in his head that he is the President.
Moving him out is urgent. The plan to walk Newsom and Whitmer out on the stage at the convention can’t wait. The more Biden the man is attacked the more dangerous the situation becomes.
Hopefully it will be possible for the “men in the grey suits” (Qidam where are you???) to do their work and not get blown up by FJB triumphalism.
If removing Biden before 1/20/25 becomes a MAGA project it won’t happen - and that would be bad for everybody.
Well, yes and no. The MSM press edited out his gaffes so he appeared normal to most low info voters. They had no idea until last night how bad he is. To them, it's a 'sudden shock' to see him in his normal self.
The Democrat leadership is in panic mode...................
They ought to remove him & let Kamala be president. She’s as stupid as he is, but if he’s been “handled” all this time, the same will happen with her. And she’ll get the female vote & the POC vote (as well as the cheat vote) & she’ll probably beat Trump.
What a sorry, disgusting situation we’re in!
[[Biden is unelectable, he has zero chance of winning]]
Zer0 legitimate chance that is.
——Biden is unelectable——
Which is precisely why we should be rooting for him to be the Progressive candidate and run as the Democrat Nominee
I can’t imagine them chanting 4 more years!
Exactly. It would,be better to keep Biden in, but dems are catching on that he isn’t legitimately electable again, and know that if they try to cheat him back in for,another 4 years, the nation may not stand for it- thry left would be onmthe hot seat trying to explain how the nation chose him again when it is so obvious that he is mentally not all there anymore. His flues are getting more often and more bizarre- they can’t hide it anymore- everyone sees it.
Yep. Cuomo was bad for ny- real bad, BUT, when they removed him and put in hochul, things got extremely bad- she violates the constitution with impunity
LEST WE FORGET.....
Biden seen holding ‘classified document’ in resurfaced 2013 photo: Hard copies of classified documents typically only allowed in secure rooms, called SCIFs By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News, Published January 18, 2023 5:13pm EST
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-seen-holding-classified-document-resurfaced-2013-photo
SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED ON THE SPOT.
Here’s the list of the ‘cabinet’ that would invoke the 25th. Other than Hyena Harris, non of the others would even dare contemplate such an action. And since Congress has not designated another special group, they’re it.
I propose that when any president gives speeches, that they be required to climb a long set of stairs first!
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