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Oops, last paragraph "...could hardly look much worse."
Ken Hiebert wrote
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/trump-is-mentally-unwell-and-everyone-around-him-knows-it.html
<http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/trump-is-mentally-unwell-and-everyone-around-him-knows-it.html>
From the article:
Scores of psychiatric professionals say the latter
<https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-Psychiatrists/dp/1250179459/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502149532&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=the+dangerous+cause+of+donald+trump&ascsubtag=[]di[p]cjc0k2a5v00heo8y6bbra4j7z[i]7ARrma[z]m[d]D>.
Some of their peers — and a large number of laymen — have insisted that
the matter can only be settled by a psychiatrist who has personally,
privately evaluated the president. That argument has always struck me as
nuts./
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If these people who see a pattern of mental illness are right, plainly
this is deadly dangerous for the whole planet, especially given this
man's demonstrated attitude and actions to date. He has brought in
people generally perceived as alarmingly irrational on all major
issues. I'll cite John Bolton as his principal foreign policy advisor,
with his madly careening record and actions on display, and the
replacement of CEO of Exxon Mobil Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State,
who was supposedly an emissary from a more rational sector of capital,
by the ideologue Mike Pompeo, and stop there. But up and down the list
of secretaries and advisors it's a well-documented disaster.
So what can be done? Aside from the difficulty of getting adequate
diagnostic evidence, invoking the 25th Amendment is extremely iffy on
its face:/
/
"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal
officers of the executive departments or of such other body as
Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore
of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their
written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the
powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall
immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting
President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro
tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he
shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice
President and a majority of either the principal officers of the
executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law
provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of
the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their
written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the
powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the
issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not
in session. If the Congress within twenty-one days after receipt of
the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session
within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble,
determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is
unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice
President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President;
otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his
office."
Think about that, With a Republican majority, including SCOTUS, so
mindless, so corrupt, so ideologically straitjacketed and ineffectual
that rational people roll their eyes. And then there's the supine
so-called opposition wing of the hopelessly compromised Congress. If all
is true, it could hardly look much more worse. If only it were just a
comic opera, and we'd all gasp and afterwards go home to bed. Only the
corporate decision makers and their hated CIA, and the appointed special
counsel seem to have any purchase; and even that's doubtful, with the
kinds of security and insulation from the law available to any sitting
president.
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