Democrat from ultra-liberal Portland, Oregon says he's looking at the 25th amendment because he fears for Trump's mental health

A Democratic lawmaker says he's so concerned about Donald Trump's 'erratic behavior' that he wants to revise the 25th Amendment in case the president demonstrates that he does not have the 'mental and emotional capacity' to do his job.

Oregon Congressman Ed Blumenauer, who represents the liberal city of Portland, says he sees a 'glaring flaw' in the wording of the amendment that was ratified in 1967 in response to JFK's assassination. 

'For a mentally unstable, paranoid or delusional president, the 25th Amendment has no guarantee of its application. In fact, it’s likely that it would fail,' Blumenauer said in a speech this week on the House floor.

Democratic lawmaker Ed Blumenauer says he's so concerned about Donald Trump's 'erratic behavior' that he wants to revise the 25th Amendment in case the president demonstrates that he does not have the 'mental and emotional capacity' to do his job.

Blumenauer is one of several Democrats suggesting that Trump's unsupported statements about large-scale voter fraud and other issues are a reflection of his mental state.

Rep. Ted Lieu of California is working on legislation that would require a psychiatrist or psychologist to be on hand at the White House, The Hill reported.

 Congressman Blumenauer revealed on a TV program that some Republicans in Congress have told him privately that Trump's 'not right mentally.'

The 25th amendment says in part that 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' can demand the president's removal from office if they decide he is 'unable to discharge the powers and duties.'

Blumenauer said in a Wednesday op-ed that appeared on OregonLive.com that the amendment isn't strong enough. 

'It has inherent flaws that need to be addressed. The amendment's default decision-makers-- the vice president and the cabinet -- have a natural bias toward the existing officeholder that would make them reluctant to acknowledge the president's inability to serve,' he said.

'Additionally, in the case of a president who is suffering from mental illness and is emotionally unstable or irrational, there is no fail-safe to prevent him or her from simply firing the entire cabinet to prevent the application of the amendment.' 

Blumenauer called attention to the issue again later that day on the House floor.

'Like many people, I’ve noticed renewed interest in the 25th Amendment, as we’ve seen erratic behavior out of the White House and the inability of Donald Trump to even tell whether it rained on him during his inaugural speech and repeating false statements that are demonstrably wrong,' the Democrat said. 

The Congressman has proposed a 'fail-safe' to ensure impartiality, should observers determine the president is 'emotionally unstable' - a panel comprised of living presidents and vice presidents.

'We need to have a mechanism that can be reliable, command public confidence and be above politics,' he said.

Democrat from ultra-liberal Portland, Oregon says he's looking at the 25th amendment because he fears for Trump's mental health

Marine Who Told Brutal Truth About “Muslim Ban” Gets Kicked Out Of Iraq

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

A former Marine sergeant who was working as a security contractor in Iraq has been evacuated from the country after a video he made endorsing Donald Trump’s temporary immigration freeze went viral, garnering 43 million views.

Steven Gern’s video, which was posted on Facebook last week, has garnered over 289,000 likes in addition to its immense number of views. In it, Gern talked about asking locals in Iraq what would happen if he walked into town unprotected as an American.

They said he would “absolutely would not be welcome.” When he asked what would happen to him, they said that he would be tortured and killed within an hour.“The point of it is, the point I’m trying to make is, this is the local populace who would do this. This isn’t ISIS, this isn’t Al Qaeda, this isn’t the PMU, this isn’t a militia from the Iranians or anything like that. This is the local populace that would do this.

“So, my question to them was pretty simple after that: If you would do this to me, in your country, why would I let you into my country? Because all this means to me is that, if you have the opportunity to take the life of an American, you would do it.

“So, maybe there’s something you all need to think about back there,” he told his viewers. “If this is the way some of these cultures feel, if this is the way that these countries feel about Americans, why would you be so naive as to believe that if they came into the US, they would do anything any different than what they do right here in their own country?”

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Marine Who Told Brutal Truth About “Muslim Ban” Gets Kicked Out Of Iraq

Pope Francis appears to back tribal land rights in Dakota Access pipeline fight

How is this his business?

The get-up should be blue instead of white. He’s more concerned about so called ‘Democratic Injustices’ than Catholics murdered by Muslims!

Involving himself in this issue is equivalent to me advising NASA about the thrust of their propulsion systems. Oh, I forgot he's infallible. Which is exceptional since he was once a bouncer in a bar.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/03/pope-francis-reveals-used-to-work-as-bouncer.html

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Pontiff says need to protect native land is ‘especially clear when planning economic activities which may interfere with indigenous cultures’

Pope Francis appeared to back Native Americans seeking to halt part of the Dakota Access pipeline on Wednesday, saying indigenous cultures have a right to defend “their ancestral relationship to the Earth”.

The Latin American pope, who has often strongly defended indigenous rights since his election in 2013, made his comments on protection of native lands to be representative of tribes attending the Indigenous Peoples Forum in Rome.

While he did not name the pipeline, he used strong and clear language applicable to the conflict, saying development had to be reconciled with “the protection of the particular characteristics of indigenous peoples and their territories”.

Francis spoke two days after a US federal judge denied a request by tribes to halt construction of the final link of the project that sparked months of protests by activists aimed at stopping the 1,170-mile line.

Speaking in Spanish, Francis said the need to protect native territories was “especially clear when planning economic activities which may interfere with indigenous cultures and their ancestral relationship to the Earth”.

Standing Rock chairman looks to history as divisions emerge among activists

The Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes have argued the project would prevent them from practicing religious ceremonies at a lake they say is surrounded by sacred ground.

“In this regard, the right to prior and informed consent [of native peoples] should always prevail,” the pope said, citing the 1997 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Thousands of tribe members, environmentalists and others set up camps last year on US army corps of engineers land in the North Dakota plains as protests intensified.

In December, the administration of Barack Obama denied the last permit needed by Energy Transfer Partners, which is building the $3.8bn pipeline.

But last week, the army corps of engineers granted a final easement, after Donald Trump issued an order to advance the project days after he took office in January.

The pope made an indirect criticism last week of another Trump project, a wall along the border with Mexico, saying society should not create “walls but bridges”.

Pope Francis, who wrote a major encyclical letter in 2015 on climate change and the environment, told the group that new technologies could be legitimate but had to respect the earth.

He also was deeply involved in physics helping Einstein develop his famous formula E = mc 2.

“Do not allow those which destroy the earth, which destroy the environment and the ecological balance, and which end up destroying the wisdom of peoples,” he said. 

Pope Francis appears to back tribal land rights in Dakota Access pipeline fight

He's Han 'Solo' alright

 I'll be damned if I would fly with him!  

'Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?' Harrison Ford, 74, nearly crashes his plane AGAIN, this time into a Boeing 737 with 110 passengers on board.

Ford was instructed to land on runway 20L but mistakenly aimed for a taxiway, just passing over an American Airlines 737 loaded with more than 100 passengers. The FAA has now launched an investigation which could result in anything from a warning letter to Ford losing his license.

Ford, a vintage plane collector, has been involved in a number of crashes over the years. 

He's Han 'Solo' alright

Michelle and Barack Obama share touching Valentine's Day tributes to each other

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I'm going with the one on the right.

Michelle and Barack Obama share touching Valentine's Day tributes to each other