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law and a matter of policy. so the wall street journal is right on point with their editorial. melissa: how do you define that gap in the middle? what do you mean? if you want to remove the president if what? let s assume he s just doing a terrible job and he never shows up, doesn t nominate anybody, he goes to the gym every day, he s capable of governing and he s very smart but he just won t do the work. he won t appoint ambassadors, he won t meet with anybody. that person shouldn t be the president but he can t be impeached because he hasn t committed a crime, and he can t be removed because he s not incompetent on the 20th amendment. the framers considered this. somebody raised at the constitutional convention a criteria for impeachment malpractice or failure to do duties. they rejected it. they said it would give congress too much power. so we need to fill that gap, or if we are going to keep it unfilled, the one thing we can t do is stretch the words of the constitution

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