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A careful reading of Amendments Twelve and Twenty suggests that Obozo COULD have been chosen as acting POTUS in the event of a deadlock but Amendment Twenty-two saves us from that specific nightmare. That's the good news.

Bad news: If the House (one state one vote) in a deadlock, cannot choose a POTUS and the Senate (one vote per senator) cannot choose a VPOTUS (who, if chosen, would be acting POTUS), then it appears that the House, after March 4, 2017, can then choose a POTUS by one Congresscritter one vote. The Congress doing the voting would be the Congress elected in the 2016 election and any replacements due to deaths or resignations, very possibly a Demonrat Congress if the GOP fails to get its act together and keep its respective factions from insulting one another and forcing them to act like grownups before such divisions cause outright electoral disaster.

In that event, Congress, with a Demonratic majority, after March 4, could choose Comrade Grandpa, Comrade Grandma, Elizabeth Warren, or Moochelle or Noam Chomsky as POTUS and there would be nothing we could do about it. Note that the March 4 date (which was Inauguration Day until changed during FDR's time was never changed for Amendment Twenty purposes.

A Demonrat POTUS names a replacement for Scalia making the SCOTUS immediately no better than 5-4 leftist (with Roberts and Kennedy often joining the libs, Kennedy deciding to retire because of advancing age, Clarence Thomas not being physically immortal, etc. Re-education camps established soon thereafter. That Demonrat can also name young replacements for Ginsberg and Breyer, recharging those seats and leaving SCOTUS, and by extension under stare decisis, the entire federal judiciary in revolutionary hands for as long as any of us may live, even the young uns.

Then we conservatives will live every moment of our lives as we are ordered to live or be punished accordingly or run the amazingly dire risks and steep odds of armed revolution or sullen resistance.

Can we get our act together now, stop the circular firing squad, the #never whomever nonsense, the autoinsults, etc.? The alternative is likely All Hail Big Sister!