Given that the whole point of the VP is to be the spare tire, they should really not go to any SOTU or other Presidential speech to Congress. And there’s no real reason for any Cabinet members to attend. Or the Supreme Court, or any Generals, or anybody but the President and Congress, minimize the damage in case anything happens.
Orrin Hatch (Pres Pro Tem) stayed behind in Obama’s 2016 SOTU. So he an not some Obama d-bag Secretary of dog doo would have taken over. I’m glad, though I don’t think it’s proper that the Speaker or President Pro Tem be in the line of succession. After VP it would technically be the Acting President, though it would be interesting to see if the Tyler precedent would followed. If the acting President can’t be displaced until the next term starts then there is no distinction.
The dead President in this show was certainly a democrat (too boring to be Biden, more like Tim Kaine but older), talking about the 1% and it sounds like Kiefer’s character was working on lib housing BS. In addition Virginia Madsen was cast as someone described as a “conservative Congresswoman” who is definitely in the “rival party”. Her character’s name is Kimble Hookstraten, gotta be Michigan. If she’s the only Rep. alive can she just declare herself Speaker, or do you need a quorum?
Anyway, was I the only one who watched that was yelling at Kiefer to take off that damn Cornell hoodie? You can’t get sworn in wearing that!!!!
Ted Cruz is high-fiving everybody, a Canadian got to be president.
Sounds like a play on the late Playboy Playmate and actress Dorothy Stratten (whose real last name was Hoogstraten). Other than that, I've seen countless ads for the show, but wasn't planning on watching it. I figured his Cabinet position was low man on the totem poll, like Education. HUD Sec is about as nothingburger a post as you can get, mostly filled with political flunkies of no particular talent and shouldn't even be a department (nor should Education). A Zero appointee learning he'd been elevated to President, would've ran into the nearest closet, gotten into the fetal position and started sucking on his thumb.
Gadzooks, Imp-- Just wait until they have the guy who did the bombing wearing an National Rifle Association t-shirt, a GOP Blazer or something pointing at Donal Trump deplorables.
I have always thought that about the Veep. The Constitution dedignates the VP as the new POTUS so why he is not somewhere else at an occasion like SoTU has always puzzled me. Do the Veeps get such a big kick from sitting behind POTUS? Well aside from Crazy Uncle Joe...
It’s not a Constitutional requirement that the SOTU be a speech delivered in person to Congress. Washington started doing it as a speech, and everyone after followed suit.
Kirkman is an Independent. I read a few articles where Kiefer suggested that to avoid all the political baggage. I enjoyed the premiere. Hopefully it won’t be too biased. I like that the President is a family man. You don’t see too much of that on TV anymore.