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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.
I’ve been told that Kameltoe is very difficult to manage - she has ideas of her own. We’ve seen some indication of that from reports of turmoil and turnover by her staff.
Yes, but the word of the day is Blackmail, & I’m sure those who are really in charge have a method of controlling her. Those people would also have a means of removing her if she got “uppity.”
That is exactly the example I was thinking of.
Your post has a lot of holes in it. Let us go through them, one by one:
“dems are catching on that he isn’t legitimately electable again”
Highly debatable—most Democrats still love him. If you don’t believe me just ask them. There are still some polls showing Biden leading.
“and know that if they try to cheat him back in for,another 4 years, the nation may not stand for it”
I don’t know what that means. It is wild speculation on your part.
“the left would be on the 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.”
The left is shameless liars—they don’t care.
Your punishment for this post is watching one full hour of MSNBC.
They love Biden. They think he will win. They think he is coherent.
Just watch the chimps in action.
With Slow Joe, the rest of the world can continue to merely ignore him. With Kamala, she’ll be jetting around meeting and greeting sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong and getting us in even worse trouble.
What would be so horrible in regard to Kameltoe that’s worse then what we know that would give a blackmailer control?
So I don’t buy the blackmail angle.
“I don’t think he’s made single decision as POTUS.”
He decided to go off-script in one of his speeches!
another stupid republican giving the democrats an out. Let the democrats force racist joe to step down. The GOP will face a more formidable opponent if joe steps down. But what else can you expect from The Stupid Party.
He does do that.
I think his own people set him up with his speech last night.
Prime time, non scheduled, on broadcast tv…
So Kameltoe Harris gets in the Oval office. Thank you NO!
Biden will step out of 2024. But only after he has accumulated so many delegates that they and the super delegates can control their nomination. They will nominate a deep-state approved candidate because the delegates will be deep-state delegates.
If Biden steps out before the primaries, an unapproved candidate like RFK Jr could walk off with enough delegates to the D nomination process interesting for the first time in decades.
Pelosi started all this. I smell a RAT.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.