The 20-year curse?

[prefect42]

Originally posted by MrPresident

Is this true? So you are saying that there is a chance that there will be a President from Wyoming?

If the the President, Vice President, Speaker, minority and majority leaders, cabinet and the other 49 governors die. . .yes methinks

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by prefect42
If the the President, Vice President, Speaker, minority and majority leaders, cabinet and the other 49 governors die. . .yes methinks

So its a likely thing then...

So what happens if all the governors die as well?

 

[Greadius]

Originally posted by Dell19
So what happens if all the governors die as well?

I believe every state has a hierarchy of governors that looks kind of like the Presidency. You'd have to kill a few hundread more people before you ran out of successor to all the governorship

 

[TubaGuy]

In short it's gonna be pretty damned hard to kill all those people. Thats why the system is in place. Just out of Curiosity, have any of you ever read Debt of Honor or Exectutive Orders by Tom Clancy? they follow one story line and deal with something along these lines

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Originally posted by TubaGuy
In short it's gonna be pretty damned hard to kill all those people. Thats why the system is in place. Just out of Curiosity, have any of you ever read Debt of Honor or Exectutive Orders by Tom Clancy? they follow one story line and deal with something along these lines

Nothing is impossible.
Indeed one has read those Clancy books, and it is true that a large majority of the government got wiped. However, Ryan was VP, and thus the line of succession was fairly clear. Congress and Senate had to be replaced, in Tom's inimitable corny style.

 

[amadeus]

Presidential succession, as I found from infoplease.com:

The Vice President Richard Cheney

Wouldn't be bad as a President, in my opinion.

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert

Nothing special about him.

President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd

Ack! A former KKK member as President? 19th century ended long ago.

Secretary of State Colin Powell

He's going to be America's first black president one way or the other :\

Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill

Ack, again! His State of the Union would cure insomnia.

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General John Ashcroft

VoodooAce would love these guys as president \

Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton
Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman
Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Melquiades Rafael Martinez
Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshiro Mineta
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham
Secretary of Education Roderick Paige
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi

Too insignificant to mention. Tommy Thompson is a good guy, so is Paige...but Donald Evans...never even heard of that guy :\

 

[Greadius]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd

Holy Crap, we're only 3 seats away from the Presidency!?!
Even though I think Democrats would be better off with Colin Powell than Roberty Byrd; talk about misplaced party labels...

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Ack! A former KKK member as President? 19th century ended long ago.
Attorney General John Ashcroft

Yeah! And there are TWO in line.
At least one of them has reformed

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham

Remember when Bush was telling us how diverse his cabinet was, he was touting that Spencer Abraham came from an Arab family. Has the FBI questioned HIM about possible connections... ?

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Melquiades Rafael Martinez

Wow, when this guy was a one term governor of Florida, his name was Mel Martinez. Bush really is trying to suck up to Latinos.

 

[Switch625]

Originally posted by Greadius
Holy Crap, we're only 3 seats away from the Presidency!?!
Even though I think Democrats would be better off with Colin Powell than Roberty Byrd; talk about misplaced party labels...

Byrd is very much at home in the Democratic party. Nobody can sling the pork like they can.

Yeah! And there are TWO in line.
At least one of them has reformed

Isn't it wonderful how Ashcroft came around?

Remember when Bush was telling us how diverse his cabinet was, he was touting that Spencer Abraham came from an Arab family. Has the FBI questioned HIM about possible connections... ?

Who knows? If they did, we'd probably never hear about it.

Wow, when this guy was a one term governor of Florida, his name was Mel Martinez. Bush really is trying to suck up to Latinos.

Hey, it's a valid strategy.

 

[prefect42]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd

You gotta love this guy though, in the 1960 election, he got 15 Electoral votes and he wasn't even running for president!!