The 25th , Amendment, and Joe Biden’s legal fitness to serve have attracted more attention in the days since the first national debate, which featured him making a number of convoluted and wandering remarks. Rep. Chip Roy has  , noted out , that simply Vice President Kamala Harris you start the process for invoking the legislation’s provisions regarding political incompetence.
However, Congress also plays a role. Biden’s health data need to be obtained by law enforcement for every purpose. Doing so would give a president more insight into his current state of mind and shed some light on how the White House employees, as well as a responsible press, have protected a disgraced chief executive from the eyes of the public.
Disturbing Discussion
Put away Biden’s physical presence in his Friday meeting with George Stephanopoulos. Set aside the tragic, yet tragic circumstances of a president holding an interview solely to demonstrate his mental capacity or Biden’s apparent denial of the severe political situation he finds himself in.
While Biden looked more clear and clear in his interview Friday than in the conversation, his memory nevertheless failed him on several times within a , 22-minute question-and-answer program. He was unable to understand whether he had watched the discussion from last week, which was the very reason he was forced to do the meeting in the first place. He could n’t remember that Stephanopoulos worked for Bill Clinton, searching in vain for the specific president’s name and then settling for the more generic “in the government”. And he became perplexed by the polls that show him considerably in the minority behind Donald Trump.
These repeated occurrences in a relatively brief interview, especially after the conversation next week, do little to build confidence in the current president’s health or his ability state in four years.
Want to Investigate
Before the conversation, CNN medical editor and practicing neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta wrote a , column , calling on Biden to consider a series of mental tests. Gupta noted that he had received more than a few emails from brain-focused brother doctors who were concerned about Biden’s efficiency.
From a neural point, they were concerned with his bewildered rambling, immediate reduction of concentration in the middle of a sentence, halting speech, and absence of physical animation, resulting at times in a straight, open-mouthed expression. To be clear, these are only studies, not in any way medical of anything deeper, and none of these specialists wished to propose that was the case.
The doctors suggested that” the leader may be encouraged to undergo thorough mental and movement disorder testing, and those benefits may be made available to the public, even though they did not feel comfortable diagnosing a state based solely on the conversation film.”
Of course, Congress cannot force Biden to undergo such testing, even if the cabinet tries to remove him under the 25th Amendment. But Congress , can , potentially subpoena Biden’s existing medical records to find out if the president’s taxpayer-funded physician has privately raised any concerns that have yet to become public. It appears such records may exist, given that the , New York Post , reported over the weekend , that Biden’s physician met with a neurologist ( and expert in Parkinson’s disease ) at the White House earlier this year.
An investigation should also look into whether and how Biden’s closest advisors attempted to establish a” Potemkin presidency” by keeping his medical condition a secret from the general public and/or assuming duties that were properly assigned to the duly elected chief executive. Tens of millions of Americans had the opportunity to witness some of their worst fears about the president’s condition during the debate, and they have every right to know what caused this mess.  ,
The fact that staffers — in this case, from the president’s reelection campaign — felt the need to , feed radio hosts questions regarding two interviews that Biden did on Friday demonstrates the stage-managed nature of this presidency, to say nothing of the media’s complicity. It ought to raise more questions about how government employees have used taxpayer funds to advance this” conspiracy of silence.”
No Reason to Object
For both tactical and substantive reasons, conservative critics might have questions about this strategy. Concerning the substance, some may be concerned that the subpoena of a president’s medical records could set a precedent for Democrats to use against Donald Trump as soon as this January. Some conservatives may object to any course of action that might have the power to delay Biden’s withdrawal from the race on the assumption that any replacement would prove to be a tougher opponent for Trump on a more tactical and cynical level.
When compared to the possibility that someone in charge of the nuclear codes might have crippling conditions that could make him a potential liability in a national security crisis, that last argument is insufficient. In this situation, any petty political concerns should come before the safety of the nation. Congress does have a role to play in bringing this fiasco to its core, and the sooner it does, the better.
