Posted on 08/20/2021 7:02:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
See also: Can the Biden presidency last much longer?
In the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, demands have arisen in Congress for President Biden to resign or to be removed via the 25th Amendment. Elements of the formerly pro-Biden media have joined in the condemnation.
Many silent Democrat office-holders likely want Biden out, as they fear that the systemic incompetence of his administration will bring them down come 2022.
But Joe cannot resign or be fired. The Democrat high command will not let either happen, no matter the short-term political cost.
On the surface, that makes little sense. Joe's resignation or removal would not alter Democrat control of the presidency and Congress. If Joe leaves, Kamala Harris becomes president. She is incompetent, too, but no more so than Joe, and is on board with the administration's radical agenda.
So. Why can't Joe quit the office or be removed?
Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states: "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided." The current Senate is equally divided with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans.
As soon as Kamala Harris takes the presidential oath, the vice presidency is left vacant. In that case, a tie vote means that the legislation, resolution, or confirmation under consideration fails.
A Senate chamber without a vice president puts Mitch McConnell in the catbird seat. He can kill all Democrat initiatives, including any nomination to refill the vice presidency.
The Democrat agenda goes up in smoke. The 3.5-trillion-dollar budget reconciliation bill is blocked. The For the People bill is blocked. The Green New Deal is blocked. Packing the Supreme Court is dead. As is any attempt to scuttle the filibuster or grab guns.
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He should be deposed and replaced with the rightfully elected President.
So we have a do-nothing government unless appropriate payoffs are rendered to Cocaine Mitch? We are royally screwed.
Except you’re forgetting one thing; Democrats don’t play by the rules. This includes that silly parchment thinger that some people call the constitution.
Anyone who protests democrat circumventing constitutional process will be called an insurrectionist.
clever but divorced from the real world
the DemoNaziCommie party machine Puppetmeisters
can always count on
at least a half dozen Useful (and paid off) Idiot
GOP-e Senators
they’d support anything harmful to USA so long as the SorozNazi-DNC payments were in untraceable cash
anything
Trivial problem—the Deep State suicides one Republican Senator....
Folks keep forgetting that we are now a third world s&^%hole.
Wrong. If Willie Brown’s whore was elevated to the presidency she would be able to choose a VP. The office would not be left vacant.
The naming of a replacement VP would solve that quickly, wouldn’t it?
Unless, of course, he is compromised.
We are in big trouble if we have to depend upon the “good graces” of Mitch the Bitch.
“A Senate chamber without a vice president puts Mitch McConnell in the catbird seat. He can kill all Democrat initiatives, including any nomination to refill the vice presidency.”
Counting on the Post Turtle to ever do the right thing is really a stretch.
Does an appointed VP have to confirmed by the Senate? And pass by what margin?
A Senate chamber without a vice president puts Mitch McConnell in the catbird seat.
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More like the s***bird seat.
Is Oprah doing anything?
What’s amazing about this situation is how no faction can support Biden. They are trying the “people support getting out” line, but it’s the incompetence with which it was done that is what is so disturbing. Isolationists and interventionists alike are horrified by this debacle. #orangemanbad is all they have, and he’s not President anymore.
By both houses, by a simple majority.
Scissoring Gayle.
thanks
There’s enough squishy R’s to make that pretty much a slam dunk I’d say.
>>If Willie Brown’s whore was elevated to the presidency she would be able to choose a VP. The office would not be left vacant.
But the Senate would have to approve the VP and could, theoretically but not realistically, refuse to do so.
I think what they are getting at, is that in a 50-50 Senate, the Republicans could block approval of a VP nominee. And then that would leave the VP office vacant.
But that seems a stretch to me, that every single Republican would vote no on any nominee by a President Kamala.
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