The Dems will “persuade” him to retire before the end of the year. Watch Doctor Biden gritting her teeth when that occurs. Absent that a mysterious death and/or incapacitating stroke will do. The Dems knew that Biden is a senile empty suit, but they thought that was a feature and not a bug. They were mistaken.
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As I understand it, if President Biden serves two years and a day, he can be moved aside and Vice President Harris would get the residual and a chance to run for two terms thereafter.
It has been my pet conspiracy theory that Harris as a “shadow president” for two years and an actual president for ten was the plan. However, the utter incoherence of the Administration as a whole, not merely the President himself, has led me to add that the Dems did not anticipate that their own senior members would see VP Harris as an unnecessary roadblock to their own agendas.
I now think that the Dems don’t know what to do. Harris can’t get any air to breathe because every other senior Dem in Washington wants center stage. It appears that, if one can get access to the President, one can get him to sign almost anything.
Who, then, is the gatekeeper? Jill Biden is the most likely candidate but she has no political experience, particularly in Washington, so I imagine she would be easy to manipulate so who is the cardinal behind the throne, as it were?
I am, therefore, revising my conspiracy theory: I think the Dems haven’t abandoned the two year plan but aren’t committed to it either. Many don’t see why they should empower Harris, whom they despise and distrust, so they don’t want to hand her the Presidency now, even as they acknowledge that Biden’s deteriorating condition cannot be hidden forever.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” – Sir Walter Scott
70+ million American citizens (give or take a couple million aliens, legal and illegal) voted for this. Not many excuses. This used to be a serious country.
I never understood that theory. Who would conspire to put Harris into power? That is, who would support her over anyone else, in private? There’s no need for a conspiracy theory because every decision that was made makes sense. The Democrats ran a lot of people, and the voters went with the one they felt was safest. The white man who got the nomination was bound to pick a non-white woman for a running mate. I had suspected that they’d go with a non-white man, but then they committed to the non-white woman, and the Democrats were more concerned with getting the black vote out than fortifying themselves with the Hispanic vote. When a bunch of people behave predictably, there’s no need for an alternate theory.
Harris can’t go in because the tie vote for the Senate would be lost, and (hopefully) Repubs would block dem legislation.
A president would appoint a new VP. In theory the Senate could block confirmation, but I can’t imagine that happening.
After everything the dems have done the republicans would be idiotic to not block confirmation of a replacement VP.
Of course, being idiotic is no detriment for the republicans taking a course of action.
Pinky, why can’t you imagine that happening? I can. And it would be the appropriate action to take for the Republicans, if the leadership has the cojones to do it.
and the voters went with the one they felt was safest.
There is no indication of that. Plenty of mainstream candidates. Democratic voters were not interested in any of them, bar, in small measure, Booty-gag and Klobberherworkers. Someone put the screws to those two to throw in the towel quite prematurely. That’s an occult feature of last year’s donnybrook that’s received no attention.
James Clyburn prevailed on black opinion leaders in the Deep South to round up their constituents for Biden. Black voters are more given to bloc voting than any other segment of the electorate. It worked to generate a preference cascade of a sort common in these witless exercises.
Bob – Destabilizing the order of succession in exchange for one Senate vote? I can’t imagine a single senator doing that. It’d be depicted as putting party before country, and I think rightly so. Beyond that, the Democrats would hold on to Biden if they thought there was a chance that the Republicans would block a VP pick, so if you believe that Biden should step down you’re shooting yourself in the foot. It’s going to take complete Democratic unity to encourage Biden to walk away.
oops – I didn’t complete that last thought. The Democrats would rather have a feeble-minded president than lose a smidge of power, so they’ve got to know that Harris can pick a VP before they’d pressure Biden to step down.
Jonathan Turley has not addressed this issue. It would be interesting to hear from him. As far as I can see, with the invocation of the 25th Amendment, Harris acts as president. She remains the vice president with the vice president’s functions. She can only nominate a vice president if she succeeds to the presidency, which occurs only if Biden signs a formal letter of resignation (or unexpectedly dies). At the same time, she remains President of the Senate.
NB, if the 25th Amendment is invoked, Dr. Jill and her minions can attempt to retain his position with a counter-declaration. The counter-declaration can be quashed with the vote of a 2/3 majority in each chamber. You need the Speaker and all four floor leaders on board before this is attempted. A unanimous vote in the cabinet would be preferred, but something like 12-2 might be serviceable. And, of course, Harris has to be willing.
Do any of you really think Biden or Harris are anything but puppets?
It doesn’t matter.
They steal elections and run the country by fiat, anyway.
Look at what they’ve dictated for the past 18 months re: the China virus.
Historic note: Jill Biden is no Edith Wilson. Despite her lightweight PhD, she simply does not have the skill or the verve to pull off a lengthy fiat presidency even with the cooperation of a tame liberal media. If Harris then gets in, the senate will be deadlocked and though chaotic, will allow the country to avoid the worst of possibilities. In any event, we be in for interesting times (Chinese definition) after the 2022 elections.
Wilson’s incapacitation lasted for 17 months, at a time when the federal government was proportionately a great deal smaller in budget and manpower (absent a general mobilization) and not so consequential.
There are available on Youtube recordings of Wilson in 1912 and 1923. His voice in 1923 was weaker, but he was still able to form coherent and intelligible sentences. (The stroke was in the right hemisphere).
One interesting thing about Wilson’s voice is that he had no Southern accent at all. The Smithsonian in 1930 undertook to make recordings of octogenarians recalling their youth. One thing you notice about the Southerners they interview is that they have a quality to their voice you might call ‘rustic’, but they do not have Southern accents that we would recognize. My grandfather, East Tennessee born and bred, did not have a Southern accent and neither did his brother; his brother had a creaky ‘rustic’ quality of the sort described. Now, you look at videos of Deep South politicians ca. 1935, the Southern accent and idiom is recognizable (though in Huey Long’s case, surprisingly mild). Alben Barkley, a politician from the peripheral South b. 1877, had only a trace of a Southern accent. Albert Gore Sr and Thruston Morton, a generation younger, had quite noticeable accents.