Thread: Former Bush Aide Michael Gerson: 'Time to Panic' About POTUS

Former Bush Aide Michael Gerson: ‘Time to Panic’ About POTUS; WaPo Explains How Trump’s Cabinet Can Remove Him

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by REBECCA MANSOUR15 Oct 2017

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, a former senior aide to President George W. Bush, used his Friday op-ed to warn establishment Republicans that “the time for panic and decision is upon us.”

Gerson urges Republicans to join Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) in publicly raising two questions: “Is Trump psychologically and morally equipped to be president? And could his unfitness cause permanent damage to the country?”


If the reports are true that the majority of Senate Republicans agree with Corker’s comment that Trump could cause “World War III,” then Gerson exhorts them to publicly act on their convictions.


Though Gerson does not explicitly state how he would like them to act, the Washington Post offers a clue.
At the very end of Gerson’s column, the Post has embedded a video made by one of their staffers titled “How does the 25th amendment work?”


The video’s caption reads: “The 25th Amendment sets forth a procedure for removing a president from office. Here’s how it’s enacted.”

As the video explains, “Section IV of the amendment states that the Vice President and at least 13 of 24 cabinet members must agree to transfer power out of the hands of a sitting president. They would notify Congress and the vice president would take office as the acting president.”

From Gerson’s column in the Washington Post:

[T]he real problem has always been Trump’s fundamental unfitness for high office. It is not Trump’s indiscipline and lack of leadership, which make carrying a legislative agenda forward nearly impossible. It is not his vulgarity and smallness, which have been the equivalent of spray-painting graffiti on the Washington Monument. It is not his nearly complete ignorance of policy and history, which condemns him to live in the eternal present of his own immediate desires.
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The time for whispered criticisms and quiet snickering is over. The time for panic and decision is upon us. The thin line of sane, responsible advisers at the White House — such as Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — could break at any moment. Already, Trump’s protests of eternal love for Kelly are a bad sign for the general’s future. The American government now has a dangerous fragility at its very center. Its welfare is as thin as an eggshell — perhaps as thin as Donald Trump’s skin.
Any elected Republican who shares Corker’s concerns has a political and moral duty to state them in public. If Corker is correct, many of his colleagues do have such fears. Their silence is deafening and damning.

Read the rest here.


Below is the video the Washington Post embedded at the end of Gerson’s column detailing how the President’s cabinet can use the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.


(Video on 25th Amendment is at the link)


http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...an-remove-him/

25th Amendment:

The Vice President and 13 of 24 cabinet members must agree to remove power from the president.

25th Amendment

Section 4.

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.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxv

It takes a bit more than that. It takes 2/3 vote in both chamber of Congress. People like Gerson are just the Maxine Waters of the Republican Party. Their boy Jeb lost the primary, Trump is unraveling their LEGACY open borders, free trade treason Bush Traitor Crap, and they can't stand it. It's FAKE NEWS, SORE LOSER ... UNAMERICAN DRIBBLE.

Originally Posted by Judy

Their boy Jeb lost the primary, Trump is unraveling their LEGACY open borders, free trade treason Bush Traitor Crap, and they can't stand it. It's FAKE NEWS, SORE LOSER ... UNAMERICAN DRIBBLE.

And that's all they have to work with.

Yes, that is absolutely ALL they have to work with. It's not even surprising that these Wack-O-Doodle Traitors would actually write an article proposing a "coup" or that the Washington Post would publish it. TRAITORS ALL!! All these Swamp Rats are coming out in droves from all their hidden corners exposing themselves. Take names, make a list.