Posted on 02/09/2024 11:21:41 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Thursday’s news crescendo ending in a calamitous presidential press conference carried hidden lessons for both parties: Be careful what you wish on your political enemies. It could monumentally backfire.
The Democrats’ continuous calls during his four years in office to use the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office on the presumed grounds of mental instability took a disastrous turn this week, as the effort self-combusted in a Hindenburg-sized blowback.
In October 2020, before Joe Biden was elected president and three months before Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a press conference. She was touting a bill to create a bipartisan commission that could determine a sitting president’s ability to carry out the duties of the office. The original bill’s author was Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and former constitutional lawyer who would go on to lead the second Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. In Pelosi’s eerily portentous remarks, she said the measure wasn’t explicitly aimed at Trump, but his mental health “reminded” Democrats of why such a commission was needed........
The measure would have augmented the 25th Amendment, which provides procedures for transferring power to the vice president in case of the president’s death, incapacitation, removal, or resignation. It would set up a commission of 16 members chosen by Democrats and Republicans, who are medical experts or former high-ranking executive branch officials such as former members of a president’s Cabinet. The commission’s members would then select a 17th member, who would serve as chairperson.
Pelosi and many Democrats regularly raised the issue of the 25th Amendment during Trump’s tenure as president, more as a way to question his judgment and mental acuity amid the 45th U.S. president’s furious Twitter rants and frequent acts of retribution and name-calling.
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You don’t need to be competent to be a sock puppet.
There was a big difference though. In Trump’s case, it was a naked, cynical political ploy. Trump was fine mentally. In Biden’s case, he clearly has dementia or Alzheimer’s.
“I got hairy legs that turn, that, that, that, that, that, that turn, uh, uh, uh blonde in the sun...
So I learned about roaches.
I learned about kids jumpin’ on my lap.
And I love kids jumpin’ on my lap.”
Camera Karma..........................
With almost no effort at all, the Democrats could give America the first black female president ...
Oddly enough, they seem to be reluctant. I can’t imagine why.
It doesn’t matter if he sees dead people, he cares about the people, he gets it. Even Republicans have stated he is sharp. KJP
If Biden really wanted to he could clear everything up right now..release the FULL unedited transcript of his entire conversation with Special Counsel Hur..and also release the audio of his meeting with his ghostwriter, lets see whose telling the truth..but they wont release it
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With Biden it’s tough to always tell. How much of it is dementia, and how much is just due to him being an idiot? Can you lose a step you never had to begin with?
Remember when the democrats said Reagan was too old to be President at the age of 69 and 70? One liberal magazine even had an illustration of a dead Reagan on a hospital gurney.
Now they are still backing that senile old codger Biden at 81!
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yep.
“Amazing, too incompetent to be charged but supposedly competent enough to be president. “
Future generations will despise and laugh at us. This is far worse than the idiocies and hypocrisy of the Soviet Union that had me shaking my head in grade school.
“In October 2020, before Joe Biden was elected president and three months before Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol,...”
In October 2020, before Joe Biden stole the presidency and three months before Trump supporters meandered through the U.S. Capitol, after being invited in by crapitol police...
There..... fixed it
FTA: Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol
They did not storm, they walked in and the capital police opened locked doors for them and escorted them around.
Nothing a dem does ever comes back to haunt them for anything, ever.
“With Biden it’s tough to always tell. How much of it is dementia, and how much is just due to him being an idiot?”
Or there’s always #3, i.e., that he’s pulling a Vincent Gigante, pretending to be a broccoli so he can skate on his crimes. (It worked for him on the Hur document.)
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