Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s commentary headline in The Oregonian (Feb. 15) read, “The fatal flaw of the 25th Amendment.” It should more rightly have read, “Simplifying the Constitution to make it easier to impeach President Trump.”
It is obvious Blumenauer does not like Donald Trump. He thinks he is erratic and raises questions about his mental and emotional capacity to be the President. He provides a history of those presidents in American history who were rendered incapable of performing their duties such as President Woodrow Wilson and, of course, the wounded President Garfield.
To impeach Trump — and impeachment is a high bar to reach and prove — the president would have to commit, “high crimes and misdemeanors.” It seems at this point, all that Trump has committed are bad tweets, poor cabinet choices and having won the Electoral College in 30 states, the two-thirds needed to change a constitutional amendment.
If Blumenauer would actually leave his office instead of whining and not voting, he might be able to play his significant role as the loyal opposition and actually represent the citizens of Oregon. All of them, not just Democrats. And be a functional member of a working government.
Watching the behavior of Rep. Blumenauer and Sen. Merkley, maybe we could pass another constitutional amendment to make it easier to fire our representatives, or at least hold them to a single term, when they act more childish, more erratic and more mentally unstable than the president they want to impeach.
— David F Eastman, Gresham
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