The Power of Senility

From the linked article:

Now that investigations into the autopen presidency are underway, left-leaning media and Democratic politicians are finally confronted with the truth that was right in front of our faces for years: Joe Biden was not running the country, and America was being led by an unelected, unaccountable polit-bureau.

Some legal experts have agreed that an autopen signature could be legal, but we never seriously considered signing laws using the autopen until Barack Obama signed Patriot Act extensions while he was in France in 2011. Obama left congressional Republicans questioning the validity of such use when he again used an autopen to sign the 2013 “fiscal cliff” legislation during one of his Hawaii vacations. He knew what was being signed.

Biden didn’t know what he had signed into law. How many other times did he not know what he was signing? Was anything signed into law that he would not have authorized if he were “with it”? Are any remaining executive orders that Trump hasn’t overturned still valid?

Should we examine all legislation that wasn’t signed into law during a signing ceremony?

An even stronger case can be made for the more personal decisions of pardons or commutations. Biden did sign the pardon of his son Hunter, and clearly knew about that pardon from interviews. But if Biden was compos mentis, why did the staff hide other pardons, or at least the details, from him? It is an open legal question whether and how such pardons could be revoked.

The DNC did not trust Joe Biden to be up for campaigning for reelection, so why did they trust him to remain in the White House?

When “experts” declare use of the autopen legal based on it being a symbolic act of approval, they assume Biden was aware of what he was signing, understood the implications, and agreed to the intended outcome.

This scandal is not merely about the legality of the autopen on documents that have the force of law. We have a real predicament because we didn’t treat seriously the mental acuity of the man whose signature was hijacked for political ideology and personal gain.

No one believes Joe Biden was “all there” at the end of his presidency. If he was too senile for Democrats to let him run for president, it seems likely he was too senile for White House staff to let him run the country.

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I don’t think Biden was “all there” for ANY part of his presidency. And even if he had been, what good would his mental ability have been, anyway?
He was just smart enough throughout his career to learn how to grift off the system, and that’s all he cared about - accommodating whoever was bribing or blackmailing him.
They probably could have gotten all the same pardons out of him as they got with the autopen, for the right price.

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