Doomsday scenario: AG Gonzo will take over and be pres...

[cynatnite]

should the entire congress implode during bush's STFU speech.

From KO.

[LSK]

1. dont worry, Jim Webb might be off somewhere too

[originalpckelly]

2. Webb's not in the line of sucession.

In other words, he won't be taking over.

[LSK]

12. yeah but he will be the Congress

:rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

3. Is Gonzales

the official "no show" this year?

[originalpckelly]

7. Yes,

OH MY FUCKING GOOBERNICKELS!

[cynatnite]

8. Yep n/t

[SoCalDem]

4. The real question is...... Where is Al Haig?

:rofl:

[Pharaoh]

6. AL HAIG!!!

STFU!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[BattyDem]

5. Presidential Line of Succession ...

The original Constitution provides that if neither the President nor Vice President can serve, the Congress shall provide law stating who is next in line. Currently that law exists as 3 USC 19, a section of the U.S. Code. This law was established as part of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. There, the following line of succession is provided:

* Speaker of the House of Representatives
* President Pro Tempore of the Senate
* Secretary of State
* Secretary of the Treasury
* Secretary of Defense
* Attorney General
* Secretary of the Interior
* Secretary of Agriculture
* Secretary of Commerce
* Secretary of Labor
* Secretary of Health and Human Services
* Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
* Secretary of Transportation
* Secretary of Energy
* Secretary of Education
* Secretary of Veterans Affairs
* Secretary of Homeland Security (not yet set by law)

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_succ.html

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Was Gonzo born here? If not, he can't be president anyway.

[originalpckelly]

9. They wouldn't have left him behind if he wasn't legally qualified...

his grandparents were foreign born, not him.

[BattyDem]

10. Thanks for the info. I had no idea where he was born.

:hi:

[Kagemusha]

11. We found out during FoleyGate that Hastert picked a list of successors

so Pelosi must have a similar list and whatever member of Congress is skipping the SOTU is probably on it so...

That person must be well ahead of Gonzales in the line of succession.

But it's fair to say most people don't know this stuff well. (Al Haig was mentioned.)

[ChiciB1]

13. SNIPERS.. Do We Have Snipers?????

Where's America and our WAR ON TERRA??? FIGHT THEM THERE SO WE DON'T FIGHT THEM here!!!!!!! Let's hear it for GITMO!!!

GO GEORFIE... We GOT YO BACK, DUDE!!!!

[ChiciB1]

14. Yes, I Meant Goerfie... Just Seemed Appropriate Since We Have A

failure to communicate on ALL levels!