George Bush must be removed from office
Jul. 1st, 2003 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holzman_tweed"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them." -- George Bush, as cited by Mahmoud Abbas
If Abbas is lying, George really needs to get on national TV and unconditionally denounce him as a liar, stat.
Ladies and gentlemen, whatever you think of his policies or character, the last thing you want is someone with his finger on the button who thinks God is telling him who to strike down.
I do believe this opens up a third approach to removing him from office, to boot: electoral defeat and criminal impeachment are already on the table, but I do believe a president can be removed from office if it turns out he's, say, clinicly insane. Of course, that takes the cabinet's approval, and they seem to share his halucinations.
Aside from concerns about mental stability, if he is honestly making executive decisions based on what he thinks God is telling him, and it's as simple as "God said do it, and I did it," then all that talk about Saddam being a bad person, all that talk about WMDs (remember WMDs?), all that talk about terrorism was just words -- after all, if God had told him not to attack, he'd have listened.
It's a pity God didn't mention anything about bearing false witness, murder, or any of those other things he seems to have occasioned to mention to the rest of us.
If Abbas is lying, George really needs to get on national TV and unconditionally denounce him as a liar, stat.
Ladies and gentlemen, whatever you think of his policies or character, the last thing you want is someone with his finger on the button who thinks God is telling him who to strike down.
I do believe this opens up a third approach to removing him from office, to boot: electoral defeat and criminal impeachment are already on the table, but I do believe a president can be removed from office if it turns out he's, say, clinicly insane. Of course, that takes the cabinet's approval, and they seem to share his halucinations.
Aside from concerns about mental stability, if he is honestly making executive decisions based on what he thinks God is telling him, and it's as simple as "God said do it, and I did it," then all that talk about Saddam being a bad person, all that talk about WMDs (remember WMDs?), all that talk about terrorism was just words -- after all, if God had told him not to attack, he'd have listened.
It's a pity God didn't mention anything about bearing false witness, murder, or any of those other things he seems to have occasioned to mention to the rest of us.
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Date: 2003-07-01 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-02 12:00 am (UTC)"Voices From God" sounds like reasonable grounds for suspicion of insanity to me, but I have no idea if your constitution has a process for doing this, especially as they all seem to be equally deranged.
Besides - if he is making executive decisions on the basis of what "God told him", isn't that a blatant breach of your constitutional separation of church and state? :)
Oh, and welcome back
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Date: 2003-07-02 06:29 am (UTC)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.
It's not a First Amendment violation, though. The First Amendment addresses establishing religion and interfering with the free exercise of religion. It doesn't forbid elected officials to make decisions based on religious views.
I'm afraid I'm not back yet -- I'm in Miami. I hope to be back tonight. :)