"What's a constitutional democracy to do when the president and vice president lose their marbles?"

from an op-ed by rosa brooks in today's la times...

The U.S. is full of ordinary people with serious forms of mental illness -- delusional people with violent fantasies who think they're the president, or who think they get instructions from the CIA through their dental fillings.

The problem with Bush is that he is the president -- and he gives instructions to the CIA and military, without having to go through his dental fillings.

Impeachment's not the solution to psychosis, no matter how flagrant. But despite their impressive foresight in other areas, the framers unaccountably neglected to include an involuntary civil commitment procedure in the Constitution.

Still, don't lose hope. By enlisting the aid of mental health professionals and the court system, Congress can act to remedy that constitutional oversight. The goal: Get Bush and Cheney committed to an appropriate inpatient facility, where they can get the treatment they so desperately need. In Washington, the appropriate statutory law is already in place: If a "court or jury finds that [a] person is mentally ill and . . . is likely to injure himself or other persons if allowed to remain at liberty, the court may order his hospitalization."

I'll even serve on the jury. When it comes to averting World War III, it's really the least I can do.

unfortunately, rosa, it ain't just bush and cheney... whatever horrible disease has those two in their grip is evidently highly contagious... look at our congress where the democrats are falling all over each other to pander to the two madmen's every whim... perhaps we can convince halliburton to build a detention center pro bono where all of them can be held indefinitely without charges and sans habeas corpus until we the people can arrange for a relatively unknown country to accept all of them under extraordinary rendition...

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