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To: DoughtyOne
The only other thing I might recommend is for Republicans to pass a "pre-emptive strike" bill during Trump's administration to define a 25th Amendment "other such body" now, so that future Congresses would need to repeal that law and replace it with another one, taking all the political heat that would go along with doing that.

Then Republicans can create a body that would have such a high bar as to be effectively non-useful. That's why I suggested a conference of all 50 governors, or resolutions from all 50 state legislatures. On the surface, those bodies seem reasonable and representative of the people (small "r" republican). In practicality, it would be very hard to get such a body to succumb to partisan antics to remove a President that 270 electoral votes had recently put in place.

-PJ

53 posted on 04/18/2017 1:18:51 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I can understand your reasoning here also.

The only problem I see with it is guys like Lot/McConnell and Boehner/Ryan in the mix.

Then there’s the GOPe, willing accomplices in the worst decision making on Capital Hill.

Our side is no more safe than their side with an idea like this. Let’s recall that they all hate Trump.

I don’t want our side setting up an alternate group to judge him. It’s not very hard to imagine them claiming it was a bi-partisan group made up from both parties, that they somehow knew hated Trump.

Imagine McCain, Graham, Rubio, Snow...

Then imagine the Left: Feinstein, Schumer...

They could come up with 30 people, that would want Trump dangling on a short rope from a high limb.

Don’t put it past them.


54 posted on 04/18/2017 1:28:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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