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Constitutional Crisis

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It seems like I've been ruminating over the past year about an ongoing unspoken constitutional crisis, for instance, here , the day after the June 27 debate debacle, where I compared the apparent coverup of Biden's decline to the final months of FDR's presidency: Roosevelt could pass away at any time after the 1945 inaugural and have Truman succeed him, although had he passed away before that date, his successor would have been Henry Wallace. As it happened, the country got lucky. The problem right now is that if Joe Biden leaves the presidency for any reason before next January 20, his successor is Kamala Harris. So right now, it looks as if congressional leadership got together and cobbled up a business-as-usual continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. They assumed that the congressional uniparty could be stampeded into passing it at the last minute to avvoid said shutdown, Biden as lame duck president would sign it, and the boodle would proceed unin...