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So he could ruin the other 49 states too? No thanks!

People should pay attention to the lyrics!!!!

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Et tu, Obama?
The daggers are out for Joe.🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️

So CLOONEY gave OBAMA a heads-up before publishing his Op-Ed.
So AlLeGeDlY OBAMA must-have given CLOONEY permission to go ahead. :-k

Playbook: What Obama and Pelosi are doing about Biden

By RACHAEL BADE, EUGENE DANIELS and RYAN LIZZA
07/11/2024 06:13 AM EDT

He’s toast, just saw the clip of him introducing the President of the Ukraine, President Putin….

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-calls-zelensky-putin-right-before-huge-press-conference-1924175 

Yup.
I hope he'll just resign tonight.

Kamala is going to show us the magic of what can be, despite what has been, on a magical yellow bus everyone loves.

All you can eat WORD SALAD BAR!!!!

We’d go from mumbling babbling to word salad and cackling while the rest of the world is howling at what we’ve become.

The 25th Amendment Isn’t for Joe Biden
It’s political catnip but could lead to a chaotic power struggle.


WSJ Editorial Board
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisc., July 5. PHOTO: KYLE MAZZA/ZUMA PRESS
The omerta has broken, and worrying anecdotes about President Biden’s age are now common. He used a teleprompter while speaking to about 30 donors in a living room. Prep materials for an event include photos of the hallway to the stage, with an instruction in large font: “Walk to podium.” Voters already think Mr. Biden is too old to be President for another four years.

But is he too old to make it for another six months, until the end of this term? That’s what Republicans will be asking as they try to press their advantage. Talk is circulating again about using the 25th Amendment to remove the President posthaste, on the theory that his incapacity is a danger to the country. The argument is that Mr. Biden blamed his bad debate performance on “a bad night,” but next time it could be during some geopolitical crisis.

The risk isn’t zero if Mr. Biden stays in power, but the alternatives are hardly compelling. Read the 25th Amendment. It isn’t designed for removing a leader who doesn’t think himself incapacitated. Deeming a President unable to perform his duties requires a declaration to that effect from the Vice President and a majority of the cabinet, all of whom have some loyalty to the man in the Oval Office. Is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg ready to throw Mr. Biden under the electric bus?

If a removal effort succeeds, the Vice President then becomes Acting President. Kamala Harris would get temporary power to give orders as Commander in Chief, without the title or mandate. Republicans should close their eyes and imagine how Acting President Harris might handle, say, a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Does that raise their confidence?

The 25th Amendment also permits a sidelined President to challenge his removal. Sustaining disqualification ultimately takes a two-thirds vote by both the House and Senate. That’s a higher bar than what’s required for impeachment and conviction, since the House can pass impeachment articles with a mere majority. To regain the Presidency, in other words, Mr. Biden would need to muster only 34 votes in a Senate that includes people who are older than him and served with him for decades.

All of this is by design. The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967, and its framers were not trying to create a mechanism for contesting Presidential power. They were seeking, amid the aftermath of the JFK assassination, to clarify a constitutional bypass for a President who might become comatose or otherwise incapacitated.

With that context, what’s more of a danger to the republic: Mr. Biden carrying on with his advisers as usual, shaky as he looks some days, until the next Presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025? Or an unprecedented constitutional power struggle among President Biden, Acting President Harris, a divided cabinet, and a brawling Congress? Through the eyes of America’s adversaries, the power vacuum might look like the more inviting opportunity.

Mr. Biden reportedly told a group of Democratic Governors that he needs to sleep more and work less. He can do both by ending his 2024 re-election campaign, with its travel and fundraising. The President so far is defiant in refusing to consider this, but more Democrats by the day are making the case that Mr. Biden should bow out in their party’s, and the country’s, best interests. Trying to invoke the 25th Amendment could reinforce Mr. Biden’s stubborn streak and cause him to dig in further.

The 25th Amendment is political catnip, and chatter about using it on President Trump arose in 2017 and again in 2021 after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Republicans talking about it now are probably enjoying the payback. But it was a daydream and a distraction then for the same reasons it’s impractical today.

Voters are correct that Mr. Biden is too old to serve until Jan. 20, 2029, when he’d be age 86. The best path is for Democrats to persuade Mr. Biden to forgo re-election, which would let him focus on governing through the end of his term. If Mr. Biden won’t listen, voters will have their say in November.