Below is my column in the Hill on the withdrawal of President Joe Biden from the 2024 election. After weeks of Democrats and the media raising the alarm of his mental capacity, Biden finally gave up his public refusal to step aside. Harris will now be the nominee through succession by defenestration, or being tossed from a window. Yet, there remains a lingering question of Biden’s capacity to serve for another six months as president.
Here is the column:
President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw as the Democratic Party’s nominee solved an immediate problem for his party. Biden has plummeted in the polls as the vast majority of voters concluded that he is too diminished by age to serve another term. Yet, it has now created several new problems, including the obvious problem of a president who is viewed as incapable of running for an office that he continues to hold.
The Democratic Party essentially created its own political version of the 25th Amendment in forcing Biden off the ticket. This decision was about as voluntary as leaving a building by way of a window on the 46th floor. That is particularly the case when you are thrown out of the window by your closest friends.
The unseemly image of succession by defenestration will soon be whitewashed by a media that will praise Biden after weeks of declaring him incompetent and enfeebled.
That, however, leaves the lingering question after the fall. How can Biden remain in office when he is incapable of running for the office?
Biden is notably vague about the reason for his withdrawal after maintaining for days that he will be the party’s nominee. He simply says that it is in the best interests of the country.
The Democratic establishment has two equally unappealing options.
First, it could argue that Biden was withdrawing out of recognition that he is no longer politically viable. But that makes a mockery out of the democratic process. Millions of people went through the primary elections to select him as their nominee. Now he would be set aside and replaced by a vote of the party establishment like a shift in the Russian politburo.
Second, it could admit that Biden was, as stated for weeks in the media and by figures like Special Counsel Robert Hur, greatly diminished both mentally and physically. However, that makes this withdrawal an admission that could trigger a fight under the 25th Amendment.
The development could create a new constitutional controversy. The 25th Amendment was written with largely physical disabilities in mind. If a president is comatose, the incapacity is obvious and Section 4 allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to sign a declaration to Congress that a president is incapable of holding office.
However, Harris is eager to avoid the image of Brutus in the dispatching of the president. To support such a declaration would risk Biden proclaiming “Et tu, Kamala?” to the nation. The key to succession by defenestration is not to be seen as the hand that pushes the president out the window. Politics follows the same rules as the mafia for capo di tutti i capi: Kill a don, never be a don. While sometimes honored in the breach in the mob, it is hardly an auspicious path for a politician.
There is, however, another intriguing possibility.
Section 4 provides that a president’s fitness can be put before Congress when the “Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or such other body as Congress may by law provide.”
Previously Democrats have cited that language to suggest that they could create their own body to force former President Donald Trump out of office. Indeed, Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-Md.) sponsored legislation called the Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity Act to create a commission empowered to examine a president to Congress on the president’s capacity. It would circumvent the necessity of getting Harris to be the primary hand that dispatched a president.
The question is whether Congress will now make this decision to warrant an investigation or even a Raskin-like bill.
This is different than President Lyndon Johnson’s decision on March 31, 1968, that “I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”
That was before the end of the primaries. In this case, Biden won a primary in which the Democratic Party obstructed anyone who would challenge him and barred any debate.
Millions voted for him, and tens of millions of dollars were contributed to his campaign. He is now withdrawing weeks before accepting the nomination. That unprecedented decision alone would warrant a House investigation into Biden’s continuing capacity to serve in an office that he no longer believes he can run to occupy after January 2025.
Before this decision, a special counsel cited President Biden’s diminished faculties as a reason not to indict him for unlawfully retaining and handling classified material. Now, the president is effectively saying that, in addition to being allegedly too diminished to be prosecuted, he is too diminished to run for the office that he currently holds.
The question is whether Biden has ended the fight to retain his nomination only to trigger a fight to retain his office.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster).
It’s never been about Biden’s mental capacity or could he win, it’s always been about the down ballot. While the world knew and commented about Biden’s mental status did any Democrat act on behalf of the citizens and ask Biden to step down? No, instead he was lauded as a political Einstein. As soon as those on the down ballot were at risk out came the long knives. Today the knives will be put away and once again he will be hailed as a great political hero and he’ll go into hiding.
Fact Check: True.
Hilary Clinton for president. She wants another crack at Donald.
Ever since the shot Hur’d around the world, we’ve had foreign leaders, Democratic politicians, media and celebrities, all providing a clear picture of what they look and sound like when they gaslight the public. It’s like watching “The Sixth Sense.” Once you learn the truth, there’s no point in seeing it again.
Trump will now be able to set just about any terms he wants for any future debates, and that’s assuming he’s even going to offer any. What’s Kamala going to do, refuse her one and only chance? The take away would be that he is scared and weak. Or he could take the position that she’s the VP and should be treated as the VP nominee on the ’24 ticket. I mean anything less would be disenfranchising millions of voters…
He should wait until she makes a few public appearances first, to see just how badly she manages to screw up on her own. If she does reasonable well at those, then he should challenge her to a debate. My suspicion is that it won’t be necessary.
He doesn’t really need to challenge her at all. She’s the one that needs the debate. Trump has nothing to gain by this at all. His debate “deal” as bad as it was, was with Biden, not Kamala. He’s bound to nothing at all going forward. She has about two months to make her case to the public that’s she’s capable of doing the job. She has a high mountain to climb and the first one will be convincing her own party
I sort of addressed that in my comment. If she holds some press conferences, interviews, rally appearances etc., miraculously manages to speak coherently to issues, avoids cackling attacks, and begins to make serious in-roads on Trump’s polling lead in battleground states, then, and only then, should he debate her.
Democratic convention is August 19-22
These four state cut-off dates could be problematic for the Democrats if they wait for the convention to nominate the Presidential candidate.
August 7-
Candidates must complete by August 7 all paperwork and filings to appear on the ballot in Ohio.
August 9-
In Georgia the last day for local jurisdiction to provide information for the November 5 general election ballot is on August 9 but the deadline for ballot printing isn’t until early September.
August 15-
Alabama requires parties to submit the names of their certified candidates 82 days prior to the general election – meaning they would need to be sent on August 15.
August 20-
The Secretary of State of South Dakota must certify names of all candidates for the ballot by 5:00 p.m. the third Tuesday in August, which falls on the 20th this year – two days before the end of the Democratic Convention.
“Ohio voted to move the deadline for candidates to make the ballot from Aug. 7 to Sept. 1 to accommodate Democrats’ mid-August convention in Chicago.”
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/21/biden-dropped-out-will-harris-another-democrat-make-the-ohio-ballot/74490691007/
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It’s been suggested that Harris as an incumbent leads a more difficult ticket.
“. . . [an] effective Harris . . .”
That is a howler.
She is “effective” at being incoherent and patronizing. “Effective” at being smarmy and at inappropriate cackling (a symptom of her lack of self-confidence). “Effective” at playing the victim and race cards. “Effective” at being MIA as “border czar.” “Effective” at abusing her staff. “Effective” at coddling criminals and supporting Antifa/BLM terrorists. “Effective” at being incompetent.
The affect of her administration’s policies have been to impoverish Americans, make the streets dangerous for the innocent, and to embolden dictators to start wars.
The Left is infamous for feeling that its words are reality. Yet facts remain a stubborn thing.
This is so much fun!
Joe Biden is the only person who can beat Trump they proclaimed!
Now that the curtain has been torn down from the Democrats eyes and all the rest of us already knew since 2020, they are in a shock and a panic.
All those loyal supporters to Biden, turned on him, calling on him to drop out. Ignore that whole voting primaries thing!
Now that he has, is he even fit to finish his presidency? He has not been fit since 2020. We all knew that as he ran his campaign from his basement.
Then there is Harris. She is just as unpopular, more so in some polls, than Biden. Her track record on pretty much anything is dismal.
The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner.
Fun! Fun!
“The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner.”
Democrats choose one.
A) You were lied to
B) Your votes were stolen
C) You are ignorant
Option D. All of the above.
I would suggest they dangled a bunch of cash in front of him. Strange also that the White House Staff and Campaign knew nothing of the decision until a tweet went out to them, reportedly.
If I were the republicans I would state the case for him to resign and argue for it and then proceed on with their campaign. I would do nothing to help the democrats get out of this conundrum. They created it by supporting his incompetency for 3 1/2 years, failed to convince him not to run, closed the primaries so it was just a game show that rang up numbers every Tuesday or so and eliminated every other competitor. And they obviously read only their own media since they were so “surprised” by his sudden deterioration. I would also not debate Harris, to suggest that this is illegitimate and she was a part of the fraud perpetrated on the country. Besides the debate was a Biden-Trump deal.
Lastly Biden’s personal physician should face the medical licensing board for fraud and malpractice. He has a duty to not endanger the public and gave fraudulent reports that allowed a mental incompetent to access the nuclear codes. He sort of failed the Biggest Red Flag Law on the planet. You would not put a firearm in this person’s hand so why would you allow him access to firepower that could destroy life on this planet.
I think the cash has already been dangled. It was probably why Hunter, the family’s “broker”, suddenly because a fixture on the scene. I can only imagine how much filthy lucre it must have taken to get Dr. Jill to go along with this plan.
From X:Pallets of cash have just been delivered to Rehobath Beach and are being moved via forklift into the Biden garage, next to the boxes of classified documents
The names of the members of the DC Board of Medicine can be found at http://www.dchealth.dc.gov
I’d give you 2:1 odds that the members of that board are every bit as corrupt and incompetent as Biden’s physician.
GEB said: “I would suggest they dangled a bunch of cash in front of him.”
“him” and “them” (meaning including Hunter and Jill). Reports that Hunter has dropped his litigation against Fox News over the mini-series would lend credence to that speculation.
Biden dropping out is not evidence that he is incapable of being president. It frees him up from the rigors of campaigning and the extra stresses. He’s obviously old, but so is Trump. He has his own string of age related problems like constantly rambling on and on going off script. Now he will have to content with a much younger and sharper political opponent whoever that may be. It is not guaranteed if Kamala Harris will win the nomination at the Democratic convention. It could be someone else.
Nobody has really seen Kamala Harris being free of supporting President Biden. She could be much more difficult for Trump to attack. There are already hints of questioning her ability to be president since her parents were not born here. Another birther movement?
Harris was polling a little better than Biden and that may change once she goes on full campaign mode. Trump can’t afford to look misogynistic or racist. Already 17% of. Republicans will not vote for Trump. That’s a sizable block of voters that Trump cannot afford to lose. Alienating women will further diminish his chances.
Trump already previewed his “attack” during the debate when he criticized Biden’s policies and only indirectly and infrequently went ad hominem. Since those policies are Biden-Harris policies, Harris inherited them whether she likes it or not. Trump may come up with a nickname like Cacklin’ Kamala as he did with Crooked Hillary in 2016, but that will be the extent of his ad hominems. Trump has gained a lot of common sense since 2016 and fully understands his limitations and license to demean others.
Harris is now free to differentiate her ideas from Biden’s. That’s what would make it more difficult for Trump to attack her policy-wise. Harris has the benefit of being more energetic and articulate than Trump. Trump still has his misogyny problem. Women will be paying attention on how he treats her in her attacks. Trump will have to tread carefully, but we all know Trump not disciplined enough to stop himself from going on misogynist tropes. Also, Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor and she is better equipped to debate Trump and I suspect he will avoid her at all costs because he cannot compete with a much younger and sharper political opponent.
George: You give Harris far more credit than she deserves. If she “differentiates her ideas from Biden’s,” this will leave her open to the question why she did so. Will she say, for example, that Biden “prevented” her from going to the border or doping anything to close it? By the way, her years as a prosecutor in California are not heralded in any meaningful circles. I think Trump has “evolved” from his locker-room antics of the Apprentice days to the professional demeanor of a true world leader. It appears that many, perhaps most, women have forgiven him for his “misogynist” antics. We all make mistakes and to his and our credit, we should be judged by how well we acknowledge and change our ways. Life is not a single photograph of one’s behavior but a long video of many transitions. I’d say 40-45 states are going to favor DJT.
“ think Trump has “evolved” from his locker-room antics of the Apprentice days to the professional demeanor of a true world leader.”
Uh Huh, sure. Trump is incapable of learning anything from past mistakes. He doubles down.
Harris will be able make a clear difference between Trump’s old tropes and claims and Harris offering a fresh perspective or new ideas. Trump’s biggest problem will be the fact that he no longer has the advantage of using Biden’s age and mental decline as reasons to not vote for him. Now he has to contend with someone who is younger and much more cognitive than he is. It will be hard for him not to insult her because she is a woman or that she is the daughter of two immigrant parents. She’s only polling 2 to 3 points behind trump and that can change quickly if Trump goes off on a misogynistic rant or insult. He will have to be careful about how he attacks her. He’s already been found guilty of sexual assault. His own wife won’t appear publicly with him holding hands or even appearing to be his wife.
Harris offering a fresh perspective or new ideas
Name three?
I think you just say shit to hear yourself talk.
Lets see…lets pick 3 from among her favorites.
1. Abolish the filibuster (if there is a democrate senate)
2. Pack the Supreme Court
3. No cash bail nationwide
4. Amnesty and citizenship for ALL illegals currently in country
5. Nationwide ban on abortion limits
6. The (New?) Green New Deal
“His own wife won’t appear publicly with him holding hands or even appearing to be his wife.”
Just makin’ shit up again. I guess you didn’t see the close of the Republican convention. You should get out more.
The pathetic thing about you is, there are plenty of good arguments to be made, but you insist on your own reality instead.
George attempts to stagger forward in his defense of Harris hoping to be “unburdened by what has been”…
Harris will be able make a clear difference between Trump’s old tropes and claims and Harris offering a fresh perspective or new ideas.
She won’t run with the old Soviet Democrat tropes?
1. America is systemically racist.
2. The Soviet Democrat war cry of “The Rich Don’t Pay Their Fair Share”.
3. Trump is a threat to democracy!
4. Trump will make elective birth control abortions of unborn black babies illegal.
George, nobody believes the New Hitler Youth Movement lead by The Anti-Semitic Socialist Sisterhood in the House are going to allow VP Cackle Hoe to abandon the old Soviet Democrat tropes of the last four years.
And then a last feeble Lyin’ Like A Proud Biden: He’s already been found guilty of sexual assault.
That is a lie; Trump has NEVER been charged with ANY criminal offense. A New York jury said he defamed a woman who claimed he raped her at some decade in the past – a decision under appeal.
We’re supposed to believe you’re concerned with convictions/sexual assault. But you have said nothing by the Oval Office being run by un-indicted felon Bribery Biden in partnership with The First Felon Crackhead Son. The Pedo In Chief partnered with the drug addict and pervert whose drugs and teenage Russian whores he paid for. Now that’s rich.
This is why you’re being mocked. Your attempts are just as feeble as Bribery Biden, The Big Guy and Pedo In Chief, President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers.
Your weak, unfactual, and misdirecting defense of the Democratic paints you very poorly. You need a plan “H” much like the rest of the party does right now.
“Harris has the benefit of being more energetic and articulate than Trump.”
Harris articulate? By what measure?
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OldFish,
This would be the same Harris who claimed to be a “top tier” candidate in 2020, who was one of the first to drop out, before any primaries.
She’s more coherent than Trump. His speech at the RNC devolved into a long winding rant that made less sense the longer he spoke. He really does not have the ability to hold a coherent thought.
Harris is younger than Trump and she is NOT Biden. Something most democrats and some anti-Trump republicans want. Someone who can maintain coherence.
How would you know? You didn’t watch the speech. You just said Melania wouldn’t appear in public or hold his hand. She did both.
Makin’ shit up.
Only at the RNC. She is never with him at his rallies. She refuses to be seen in public with him willingly it seems.
Oh I watched the speech. It was a long rant devoid of any substance. The silence from the crowd is all you needed to tell he was not making any sense and he wasn’t.
You’re a liar. Or you would have said “only at the RNC”.
You said she wont. Wont becomes a lie the first time she does, idiot.
Way to double down on stupid
Who cares what those people want? They are baked in. This is going to be an electoral wipeout.
I watched the Michigan rally and I was in stitches. Trump is still at the top of his game. Now days he makes fun of the press misrepresenting and taking him out of context AS he is delivering the punch lines.
Its hilarious.
George attempts to stagger forward like The First Felon Son after smoking a few pipes of crack, “unburdened by what has been” – Harris’ record over the last three and a half years:
She’s more coherent than Trump. He really does not have the ability to hold a coherent thought.
It says everything that George – self-identifying expert on coherent thoughts and speech – has never popped up even just once to post his opinions on the coherent speech and thoughts of The Big Guy in public. Bribery Biden: who as a 3-11 record fighting the teleprompters he attempts to read because he can’t speak without one.
Especially after the debate about four weeks ago when The Big Guy both figuratively and literally shit his pants in front of the entire country.
Here’s some coherence for you,
“what can be, unburdened by what has been.”
It’s time to create a new argument in support of Harris.
George has gotten so desperate that all he can come up with this lie: Harris has the benefit of being more energetic and articulate than Trump.
More articulate than Trump? Trump’s biggly lexicon from Queens could really use some work… but Harris is more articulate than Trump???? The Border Czar, who when corrected after lying to a reporter that she had been to the border replied “Well, I haven’t been to the moon either!”
George is attempting to stagger forward in his promotion of The Cackle Hoe “unburdened by what has been” – the record of the last three and a half years of VP Cackle Hoe.
“Harris is now free to differentiate her ideas from Biden’s.”
You credit this woman with skills she clearly doesn’t have. Also, her past string of incarcerating black men is going to be a gold mine now for the GOP. Not seeing her as the final candidate anyway. The most important thing right now is that she thinks she is. Many acts to go in this play.
“Trump has gained a lot of common sense since 2016 and fully understands his limitations and license to demean others.”
Agree. He did slip back into his old form immediately after Biden’s withdrawal announcement with a nasty comment referring to “Crooked Joe Biden”, but he has been remarkably disciplined with his orations of late.
“17% of Republicans will not vote for Trump.”
LMAO
You are pathetic. Without 17% of Republicans, its no contest.
In case you hadnt heard, Joe is out because Trump was crushing him.
Just makin’ shit up.
Given how close the polling is. Trump really can’t afford to lose even 5%. President Biden was polling slightly ahead or within 1 or 2 points before he decided to leave. Trump now will have to change his rhetoric because he no longer has to content with Biden. Biden is old and so is Trump. Now it’s about a younger and more coherent political opponent against a still old and incoherent Trump. The distinction will become apparent as the new campaign gets going.
Yeah, he was doing great…that’s way they forced him out. That’s why the donors pulled their cash. That’s why even after withdrawing from the race, he is still incapable of giving a press conference. When you have to defend Michigan, you know you’re in trouble. When the topic on conversation on talk shows is whether or not you crapped your pants on the way to Marine One, you know you’re in trouble. You can spin this how ever you want. The last time voters saw Kamala in action, she was polling at about 2%.
“President Biden was polling slightly ahead or within 1 or 2 points before he decided to leave.”
Just keep repeating the lies, moron. Its their OWN polling that lead them to conclude he couldnt win.
Trump was ahead by 5% nationally. Thats a 13% turnaround from 2020. A Republican 4 points behind is an electoral win. You have 18 points to make up. Good luck. This was headed to Reagan-like.
There was nothing close about this race. Res ipsa loquitur, Biden is out.
I love that you think Kameltoe is coherent. Where have you been for 4 years? Who do you think you are talking to here? We have all seen the disaster that is Kackling Kamala.
Remind us again, what is her approval rating???
You keep telling yourself that. Reality is not as simple as you think. Biden was well within 1 to 2 points behind Trump before the shooting. The effect of the shooting will fade and if Harris wins the nomination she will come out swinging. IF she manages to inject new energy into the democratic campaign Trump’s lead could shrink substantially, especially if he goes full misogynist which can be expected. Trump will no longer be able to use age and mental cognitive issues against his opponent. He will have to contend with a new and younger opponent who CAN make a clear distinction between the two. Harris poses a problem for Trump by completely upending his strategy relying on Biden remaining in the race. Now they will have to change tactics and Trump is not too happy about it.
“Biden was well within 1 to 2 points behind Trump before the shooting.”
Cite that.
You don’t even make sense. Was he “1 to 2 points behind” or “well within 1 to 2 points behind”. Do they mean the same thing??? Thats a rhetorical question, dok, so dont bother.
The real question is…In what race, idiot?
“The effect of the shooting will fade”
LMAO you just can’t stop contradicting yourself.
You just said “Trump’s numbers didn’t change significantly” after the shooting.
So, what effect are you talking about? The damage to his ear???
LMAO, just keep running that mouth Svelaz. This is fun.
Contend you moron, not “content”.
George, desperately Lyin’ Like A Proud Biden – and “unburdened by what has been”:
Now it’s about a younger and more coherent political opponent against a still old and incoherent Trump.
Trump is supposedly incoherent, but the Birthing Person who has earned the nickname The Cackling Vice President is more articulate? So articulate that her popularity among Soviet Democrats was even lower than the completely incoherent Bribery Biden.
Take your comedy routine one step further George: tell us how coherent and sharp as a tack The Big Guy is.
This is President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers (he one Harris called both a racist and rapist) – who just a month ago Harris told America he was sharp as a tack and had a genius’s grasp of both domestic and foreign issues).
Vice President Cackle Hoe is going to be able to skip past saying that just days before that debate?
George, you sure VP Cackle Hoe is going to be able to “go forward unburdened by what has been” – her record?
Hey Svelaz
How did Bidens people show him there is “no path to victory” when polls right now “mean nothing”?
Biden’s polling was still showing he was within 1 to 2 points or even ahead by as much. That doesn’t mean Trump is certain to win. It will all depend on how he manages to deal with Harris. He could easily alienate a huge chunk of women voters if he is perceived as being a complete misogynist. His own wife won’t appear with him publicly. Trump doesn’t have a clear idea of what Harris will be like going head to head. But they will certainly try to attack her with the ol’ birther or racist tropes of 2016.
“Biden’s polling was still showing he was within 1 to 2 points or even ahead by as much. That doesn’t mean Trump is certain to win.”
Stick to the facts, not your made up bull shit.
His own people said Trump was certain to win, so Biden was NOT within 1 or 2.
You keep talking about it like its one number, which proves either your ignorance or purposeful stupidity. He was behind outside the margin of error in several swings states. The only close places he was tied or ahead was VA, NJ, etc, normally blue states.
“ His own people said Trump was certain to win, so Biden was NOT within 1 or 2.”
The polling did not show that. Biden was indeed within 1 or 2 points behind. What IS interesting is Trump’s numbers didn’t change significantly after the shooting. Meaning his “victimhood” status is not gaining any sympathy from voters.
“The polling did not show that. Biden was indeed within 1 or 2 points behind.”
There you go again. According to who? In what race? Nationwide??? Means nothing, except that R ahead by 2 nationally is an electoral landslide.
He was behind by more than 2 in almost EVERY swing state. Tied in VA (yikes) Tied in NJ (yikes). 5 behind in NV (yikes)
I reject your reality and substitute my own
If it was as you say, Biden’s people would not have concluded there was no path to victory. So despite the fact you cant cite the poll, Res ipsa loquitur.
“What IS interesting is Trump’s numbers didn’t change significantly after the shooting.”
That is only interesting to low info, low IQ people such as yourself.
99% of the electorate has made up their minds. It will take an October surprise to change that.
You should start moving on to “acceptance” now. You’re just going to look even more stupid beteween now and November.
Pure Tinkerbell effect.
His own wife won’t appear with him publicly.
Another lie, Dennis. she made quite the grand appearance at the convention
Sentence by sentence: Lie,lie,lie,big lie, predictive lie, sic, dumb,
LIE, lie, not natural born absolutely unqualified by demoncrats will give her a pass
dreamy lie, false he is totally toxic male 100% mysogynistic, fantasy polling, fraudulent take, laughably backwards.
A stupid lying demoncrat argues, what does anyone get out of it ? A huge self esteem boost and a good laugh.
“Biden dropping out is not evidence that he is incapable of being president. “
George is ready for the loony bin.
George posted with a complete lack of self-awareness:
He’s obviously old, but so is Trump. He has his own string of age related problems like constantly rambling on and on going off script.
Let’s just take a moment to consider that George thinks Trump has problems speaking in public (how DARE he go off script). Ignore for the moment that George has never before posted about Biden’s “string of age related problem” and complete inability to simply read off a teleprompter.
George hopes readers of his post will accept the idea that Harris is somehow or other an effective speaker who can communicate – or even answer the most basic of questions!
Well, to quote the Cackle Hoe… let’s watch George “go forward unburdened by what has been”.
Svelaz George enjoys being unburden by logic and reason. He is also unburdened by reality.
Over the next few weeks look for the opportunists to jump ship early so as to attract big book deals to sell their blather before their colleagues do. It’s eBay time at the WH where publishers are offering bids to all the assistants and hangers-on who may have a story or two to tell. According to someone who has known Biden since they were both teenagers in Delaware, he is actually suffering from some serious medical problems.
He is spending time in his beach house because the roster of those who come and go is not kept like at the WH and the info on visitors is private and not available to the media. This way, visits by medical specialists are kept secret whereas if they went to the WH, they would be recorded and the visit made public.
Biden gave a recent hint that a “medical problem” might prevent him from seeking re-election. The pal said that the medical problem he feared has materialized, thus the rapid exit. Now, the drumbeat is for an immediate resignation and passing the torch to Harris. But, some big donors and incumbent democrats in the House and Senate who are running for reelection don’t want this and may blow up the DNC convention next month to get their way.
The result cannot be good, especially after Biden exercises his final presidential pardon action before leaving office to pardon himself and his family. He also may try to get back at Trump, the person he blames for his ignominious downfall, by pardoning 16 million illegal aliens so Trump cannot deport them.
In one fell swoop, as he departs, Biden may destroy his legacy, administration, and the Democrat party for generations to come. Remember, behind that Joker-like smirk lies a demented and dangerous mind filled with hatred and resentment for those he feels have stabbed him in the back.
I think its a sure bet he pardons Hunter, maybe Jill too, just in case. He probably doesn’t need a “self-pardon”, he already has one foot on the banana peel already. I’d say its even money he even lives through his term. I tend to believe that his medical problems are vastly worse than he’s been letting on. I’d say that pardoning millions of illegals would have a snowballs chance of passing. It would be just one more crazy libtard overreach that would blowup in their faces. Why stop there, why not just pardon every black teen in the country?
If he pardons the illegal aliens it will be on Kamala “The Border Czarina” Harris.
“Biden gave a recent hint that a “medical problem” might prevent him from seeking re-election. The pal said that the medical problem he feared has materialized, thus the rapid exit.”
He said that, then the other day, it was announced that he tested positive for COVID. Strongly suggests that the fix was already in when he made that disclaimer about dropping out because of a “medical problem”, but less certain that his puppeteers informed him of what was going on.
With the way that Boden has been looking and acting recently (as well as the last 4 years) it makes me think that his “resignation from the nomination letter” should have been notarized. Did he write it? Was he of sound mind? Were there any witnesses?
It would be a real hoot if he has a dementia-prompted brain fart in the next few days, and manages to get an announcement out that he “didn’t mean it”, and is still running, wouldn’t it 😉
As Biden is falling from the window, the Dems are saying “look at the selfless patriot!”
Half way down someone will probably yell to him how things are going, to which he’ll reply “so far, so good”.
“so far, so good, as long as there aren’t any cannibals at the bottom”- FIFY
Alternatively: “Look at the flightless parrot”?
Section 4, as quoted by Prof. Turley, seems to require the concurrence of the Vice President to the majority decision of EITHER the Cabinet or “any other body” created by Congress. Turley seems to suggest that Congress can do an end-around the VP.
I think that is highly uncertain. The language there isn’t clear whether that has to be an alternative body already established by Congress for that purpose, or whether they can just make it up as they go along. Any move of that nature is likely to be contested, first in Congress, and then in the courts, all the way up to SCOTUS. IMO, the implications of a finding that Congress can indeed make it up as they go along could be extremely hazardous to the Republic. Imagine how the concept of an “inability to serve” could be distorted in the future if a President was facing a rebellion from his VP, Cabinet, and Congress for purely political reasons. Again, imo, that seems to potentially set a significantly lower bar than impeachment.
One possible error – IIRC, LBJ withdrew after McCarthy did surprisingly well in the NH primary. I could be wrong, and according to many I often am
You are correct – but I had to look it up. March 12, Johnson got 48% in New Hampshire, McCarthy 42%. On March 16, RFK announced his candidacy. Faced with those challenges, and his low popularity, he bowed out. He might have won the nomination, but would likely have been so damaged that Nixon would have beaten him anyway.
You are correct.
Not running for re-election due to age and politics is not at all the same as not Biden not being fit for to be president. He will be fine.
However the Republicans are nuts if they want to see President Harris go up against Trump. A fully functional and effective Harris vs an old man running a campaign based on revenge.
Fully functional??
Word Salad Sallie, who failed out of the 2020 primary before a vote was cast?? And a lower approval rating than Biden.
Lmao u people cant stop deluding yourself.
Last month it was “Biden will win”.
Having the reputation of not only being incompetent, but also a whore, is a tough combination when you’re running to be the first woman anything.
And the last thing the MAGAs should want is Harris spending a few months as president showing everyone that she can do the job.
“the last thing the MAGAs should want is Harris spending a few months as president showing everyone that she can do the job.”
When the lottery goes over 200MM, I sometimes blow $2 on a ticket, just for S&G. I like my jackpot winning odds better than the chances of what you postulated happening… In fact, I think I like my odds better even when I don’t buy a ticket :-/
The whole resignation smacks of coup.
A typed note, with a facsimile signature, issued via a Twitter account controlled by somebody else.
No press conference.
No pictures.
No appointments on his calendar.
A designated successor cackling in public.
It is hilarious watching MAGAs call this a “coup” and not the actual attempted coup threat Trump did. Bowing out of a race is a coup but actually trying to ignore the results of an election is not.
“Bowing out”
LMAO
Biden and Jeffrey Epstein both “bowed out” when they became inconvenient to the Left.
I guess Al Franken bowed out.
I guess Menendez will soon “bow out”
What else would you call it?
For four years they lied to the whole nation, claiming Biden was “sharp as a tack!” “Laser focused!”
Then the truth comes out. The biggest scandal of the century. The president has serious mental decline, and the nuclear codes.
They rigged the primaries so there could be no challengers.
Then the establishment Democrats turned on him. So did the media. Despite him winning the primaries, something they rigged to favor him, they now tossed the democratic process out the window as they knew they are going to lose and lose big.
So, now they are stuck with Harris.
From one hot mess to the next.
–‘The biggest scandal of the century.’
There are obviously worse scandals than this.
Don’t be distracted. Bigger picture, not Go, Team, Go.
It is common for a party to effectively not have a primary if they have an incumbent president.
Rs did it in 2020, going so far as to cancel many primaries all together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries
What’s hilarious is how much time and money you clowns have spent trying to sell that and STILL finding yourselves behind in every swing state. But keep trying, I’m sure the whole “Trump is a danger to democracy” thing is just one or two NY Times articles away from actually taking hold
Sammy, veteran of The 2020 Election Campaign Mostly Peaceful Insurrection Of Rioting, Raping, Looting, Arson, Pillaging and Murder tried this:
It is hilarious watching MAGAs call this a “coup” and not the actual attempted coup threat Trump did.
Were you wounded and awarded a Sacrifice Medal for your participation in the 540+ Mostly Peaceful riots orchestrated and ran during the 2020 election campaign by the Soviet Democrats street Brownshirts in Black Liars & Marxists and Antifa.?
How about the June 1st 2020 coup attempt, where you Soviet Democrat Marxist Useful Idiot street thugs from Antifa and Black Liars & Marxists assaulted the White House, attempting to kill Trump (you weren’t hoping for a selfie with Trump and his family if you defeated the Secret Service and breached the White House walls).
Sammy, you clearly don’t mind the current coup to replace Biden’s delegates with the party’s choice. But let’s remind you of then Senator Cackle Hoe’s declaration concerning your months long 2020 election campaign insurrection:
They’re not gonna stop before election day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after election day … They’re not gonna let up, and they should not.
Donald Junior is a colossal dick, mocking a man who just wants to help his people. What an ay-hole.
Yes, that would be like mocking Benjamin Franklin for traveling to France and asking the French for assistance against the British. The anti-Zelensky crowd is a sick cult.
How did Bidens people show him there is “no path to victory” when polls right now “mean nothing”?
gutless traitor republicans will continue to FUND Fascist Democrats
Your comment seems particularly incoherent.
Generated by Mad Libs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs