25 Days Left: Stupidity Steps Into the Breach

If you are not a subscriber, you missed out the last few days as I documented GOP donors are now redirecting money to Senate races from the presidential race and the President’s own team is moving money from must-win mid-west states to states with active senate competitions. There seems to be a trend now to save the Senate and leave the President’s race to the President and his bully pulpit. You’d get all that insidery stuff if you clicked the subscribe button.

Right now, President Trump is taking over the EIB Network and doing a “virtual townhall” today on the Rush Limbaugh Show. It is going to be must-listen. But while that is all happening, stupid season has set in for the final twenty-five days of Campaign 2020.

Look no further than Nancy Pelosi deciding to push a “25th Amendment Commission” to weigh in on the mental health of the President.

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Pelosi: ‘This is not about Pres. Trump. He will face the judgment of the voters. But he shows the need to create a process for future presidents … a president’s fitness for office must be determined by science and facts’

I realize the Democrats believe the Constitution is a living, breathing document, but I didn’t think they’d decide to perform abortions on it. The twenty-fifth amendment requires the active participation of the Vice President unless that phrase gets ripped up and vacuumed out then sold for spare parts at your local Planned Parenthood office. Section 4, which Pelosi highlights, says

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.

No one diagrams sentences anymore, but one cannot leave the Vice President out of the process. To invoke section 4 of the amendment requires both the Vice President and then one of two groups, i.e. the cabinet or some other group designated by Congress.

But it requires the Vice President and Mike Pence is not going to play along.

That all suggests this is really about making it easier for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden if he should win. These are not good optics.

We should let Poppy Harlow at CNN have a word on this. While the media often gives Pelosi a pass for things that then wind up blowing up in the Democrats’ faces, consider Harlow’s reaction to this stunt.

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Pelosi often gets away with stupid stuff because much of the media gives her a pass. But Poppy Harlow at CNN gives you an indication of exactly how this stunt is going to play out with voters and why the GOP can exploit it.

It gives the GOP an opportunity to exploit this, along with the ongoing hysteria over Amy Coney Barrett’s faith.

Look, I think we should take note that a lot of Republicans are really getting nervous about the election. A lot of money is suddenly being diverted to save Senate seats. But when you have Pelosi bailing on a stimulus funding plan to talk about the twenty-fifth amendment and you have this:

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Joe Biden: “you’ll know my opinion on court packing when the election is over” youtu.be/yvVvNi4iS4E

Republicans have multiple opportunities for a last-minute counter-push against the Democrats that could help them in swing districts.