alternative to impeachment

the usual assumption is that the president and vice president can be removed from office only by impeachment, and that ain't gonna happen, because even if the house brings charges, the gop minority is plenty big enough to block the 2/3 vote needed for conviction.

but what about article ii, section 1, paragraph 6, "inability to discharge the powers and duties" of the office, and the 25th amendment?

so if the prez and/or the vp is/are incompetent, that would do it, but how?

i know on 24 the cabinet voted the prez incompetent, but that was fantasy: i'm pretty sure the current cabinet wouldn't do it.

maybe a lawsuit could force them to get tested by shrinks. they'd try to refuse, but the supreme court made clinton go thru the paula jones suit, so could it take back such a recent precedent?

if it does, it'll show up the justices as shamelessly partisan, and—after the negative public reaction to their 2000 decision in bush v gore—it's unlikely they want to risk that.

then it would be up to congress. uh-oh.