Reply #10: So, I've been wondering - and I never thought an idea like this would

[dflprincess]

cross my mind. When it comes to nuclear war, would we be better off with Cheney in the White House? I've never heard much about his religious views and, if he's not into bringing about the end of the world, he might actually think twice about using nukes (which is not to say we still wouldn't wind up at war in Iraq).

Perhaps it's time for what few rational minds might exist in this administration to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment and get Bush declared incompentent. I wonder if the Joint Chiefs could do it? Anyone know what other "bodies" Congress has decided can do this? Of course, it takes a 2/3 vote of both Houses to keep the president out of power.

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.