BTRTN: The Op-Ed Goal? Revealing the Flaw in the 25th Amendment

[reggieandlee]

Born To Run The Numbers, with its contrarian view, sees a different reason behind the Op-Ed in The New York Times

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/09/the-op-ed-goal-revealing-flaw-in-25th.html

Excerpts: “No one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis?” Huh? I don’t buy this for one second. Cheap Throat uses this justification to rationalize the insurgents’ decision to not invoke the 25th Amendment, but their solution is to slow-jam a coup...

"Here’s a different theory altogether. Perhaps Cheap Throat undertook this entire exercise to educate the population of the United States of America on the profound flaw in the Twenty-Fifth Amendment...

"And this is where the essential flaw in the 25th Amendment becomes apparent. The entire functionality of the amendment rests on the agreement of one person… a person who is inevitably intensely biased by virtue of his or her proximity to the human being who is president and to the presidency itself...

"It is an interesting thesis: that the entire purpose of the Op-ed was to point out the flaw in the 25th Amendment, and then create a situation in which Pence would have the perfect motivation to employ it."

[Nitram]

1. My sense is that the 25th amendment was designed for situations where the president is truly

incapacitated, or planning to have a medical procedure performed, because if he isn't, the bar to override any objection from the president is very high: a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress. Impeachment is the preferred avenue in all other cases.

[brush]

2. Funny that the soft coup participants thought they were avoiding a Constitutioal crisis...

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by saving, in their minds, the country from an unfit president.

Ridiculous. If that's not a Constitutional crisis nothing is.

[Nitram]

3. A very far-fetched theory. There would have been far easier and clearer ways to explain the

difficulty in removing an unwilling president using the 25th amendment.