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Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 The 25th Amendment? Seriously, don't you guys know anyone over in the Clinton camp? They're old hands at removing pieces from the board.
Posted by SteveS 2021-10-28 00:15||   2021-10-28 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden is easy 25th fodder, but I haven't seen anything yet that would justify dumping Harris. Yet. Besides, then you get Pelosi...
Posted by Glenmore 2021-10-28 01:11||   2021-10-28 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Yes indeed. She is almost a ghost. Thank goodness because when she finds her voice she will be worse than AOC or the View types.
Posted by Dale 2021-10-28 03:58||   2021-10-28 03:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Since Joe is clearly already "gone".
Posted by Woodrow 2021-10-28 05:40||   2021-10-28 05:40|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 Biden is easy 25th fodder, but I haven't seen anything yet that would justify dumping Harris. Yet. Besides, then you get Pelosi...
Posted by: Glenmore 2021-10-28 01:11

Glen,

The way it is supposed to work (one can never tell for sure these days) is that if the Vice Presidency is vacant, the President nominates someone, and the Senate confirms. Pelosi is a factor only as long as there is no VP or approved nominee.

Where this gets old-Chinese-saying interesting is if somebody decides to get cute and not nominate a VP. As I've pointed out a couple times, although that makes Pelosi next in line, she doesn't want the job. SotH is arguably a more powerful and influential job than POTUS these days, at least at the domestic level, and if she became POTUS she'd lose her House seat and seniority - you can't hold two Federal-level elected offices at once, and there's no provision for giving her her House seat back after she's done.

As far as a 25A effort to get rid of Harris...the nice folks who made that story up really should read the 25th. No mention of anything even resembling the VP being 'unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office", and that's that. I absolutely see why they would want to get rid of her; she will be a literal drag on the Democratic ticket next year and a flat-out hazard in 2024. Historians will eventually say that Biden crippled himself the minute he locked his campaign into selecting Harris as VP, and we're already seeing the results of that.

Bottom Line: There's no provision for removing a VP simply because you don't like her, and suddenly deciding she's incapable of fulfilling her duties would be a stretch even for the MSM.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-10-28 06:13||   2021-10-28 06:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Spiro Agnew
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-10-28 06:53||   2021-10-28 06:53|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Mike: She could always choke to death on something since she's pretty much overcome her gag reflex.

/Yes, Pappy. I'll go to my room now
Posted by Frank G 2021-10-28 06:59||   2021-10-28 06:59|| Front Page Top

#8 I do not recall Jill Biden being elected or nominated for any position of authority. She should cannot even manage Joe or Hunter.
Posted by Airandee 2021-10-28 07:00||   2021-10-28 07:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Edith Wilson to the courtesy phone please
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-28 07:02||   2021-10-28 07:02|| Front Page Top

#10 If you are ever in Wytheville, VA, visit Skeeter's for lunch. Edith Wilson was born in one of the apartments above the restaurant.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-28 07:16||   2021-10-28 07:16|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ If you arriving via I-81, mind the truck traffic.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-28 08:00||   2021-10-28 08:00|| Front Page Top

#12  I absolutely see why they would want to get rid of her

They need to quickly get this underway because Joe is fading fast.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-28 12:02||   2021-10-28 12:02|| Front Page Top

#13 slowly at first...
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-28 13:46||   2021-10-28 13:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Re #6: Spiro Agnew resigned after he was caught accepting bribes.
The 25th amendment had nothing to do with it. Although he could have been impeached.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-10-28 18:10||   2021-10-28 18:10|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ F'ing nattering nabobs of negativism!!
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-28 18:11||   2021-10-28 18:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Careful, Mr. Ferret, you're showing your age! [snicker]
Posted by Bobby 2021-10-28 18:15||   2021-10-28 18:15|| Front Page Top

#17 Ah yes, Spiro (and Safire) and I have heard the chimes at midnight...
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-28 21:19||   2021-10-28 21:19|| Front Page Top

#18 I was a precocious '59 child and even I remember the nattering nabobs and Spiro's exit
Posted by Frank G 2021-10-28 22:03||   2021-10-28 22:03|| Front Page Top

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