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Could Nancy Pelosi be our next President?
11/18/09 | Exton

Posted on 11/17/2008 10:20:45 PM PST by Exton1

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To: kingu
If Obama is found to be unqualified to sit in the office, at that time, the Electoral College can choose anyone they wish to be president, with the exception of Biden. As his name will be on the VP ballot, he can not be elected president by the body.

It doesn't work that way. The votes for both positions are amalgamated when counted in the Senate, and it OB is disqualified, only Biden would h\ve a majority, and would become President, and John Mccain would become Vice-President. Please read Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution of the Untied States.

21 posted on 11/17/2008 10:59:39 PM PST by John Valentine
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To: iowamark
spell check is your friend

And actually knowing how to spell is your best buddy!

22 posted on 11/17/2008 11:03:36 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("A laurel, and hearty handshake ....")
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To: Exton1
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_elec.html

According to the Constitution, if Congress fails to certify a Vice President before January 20th due to the Democratic ticket being held up by Obama's birth certificate, the Vice-President before Janurary 20th becomes Acting-President.

In other words, Dick Cheney becomes Acting President.

After this point if Congress still can't resolve the election, especially in the case of Democrats refusing to vote for McCain as President, Dick Cheney remains Acting President of the United States until 2012.

23 posted on 11/17/2008 11:04:12 PM PST by America2012
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To: Exton1

We will sell everything we have, buy a 45’ sailboat and live on the sea...


24 posted on 11/17/2008 11:07:01 PM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: Exton1

You need to stop drinking.


25 posted on 11/17/2008 11:09:08 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Democrats still want to get Pres. Bush and/or VP Cheney; there might be show trials in Feb09)
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To: America2012
In other words, Dick Cheney becomes Acting President.

After this point if Congress still can't resolve the election, especially in the case of Democrats refusing to vote for McCain as President, Dick Cheney remains Acting President of the United States until 2012.

I know the likelihood of that actually happening is very slim, but wouldn't that just chap the Democrats? It's fun just to think about it. :)

26 posted on 11/17/2008 11:12:21 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Exton1

Go wash your mouth out with soap.


27 posted on 11/17/2008 11:16:23 PM PST by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: America2012
After this point if Congress still can't resolve the election, especially in the case of Democrats refusing to vote for McCain as President, Dick Cheney remains Acting President of the United States until 2012.

Well, would save on ammo for CivWarII. All the libs' heads would explode!

28 posted on 11/17/2008 11:16:41 PM PST by douginthearmy (In the face of total electoral defeat, show some semblance of sanity.)
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To: Exton1; potlatch; devolve; y'all
Nah! She's WAAAAAAAY too busy with other important business! :)


29 posted on 11/17/2008 11:21:51 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: America2012

FANTASTIC!!!!!!

DICK CHENEY : PRESIDENT UNTIL 2012!!!!

Music to my ears, the perfect scenario!

I LOVE This Result!


30 posted on 11/17/2008 11:39:04 PM PST by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN is a Pathetic Puppet of Bill Ayers and Associates!)
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To: Exton1

Obama showed us how to throw anyone under the bus. Could it be Pelosi’s turn to toss obama under the bus and send this to SCOTUS? Wouldn’t that be fun to watch.


31 posted on 11/17/2008 11:42:20 PM PST by taxesareforever (Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
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To: Exton1
If Obama were an unqualified candidate then the liklihood would be that we would have another election with a new slate of candidates from the Dem party, and maybe a new slate of candidates from the Republican pArty.

The election could be declared null.

The other outcome could be thatMccain/Palin would be awarded the electoral victory by the SCOTUS. on review of the constitutional isses.

The chances are slim. Scotus could easily declare that Hawaii Law is determinitive of judicial fact , and that is that Obama was de jure born in Hawaii even if his defacto birth was Kenya, by virtue of Hawaii's accepting registrations ex juris, as if they occurred in Hawaii. That is apparently the way it is done in Hawaii. They register anyone who has one Hawaian resident parent as if born physically in Hawaii.

32 posted on 11/17/2008 11:45:38 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can a person own firearms in the Philippines?

Not after Ferdinand Marcos.....back in the '70s. But his martial law didn't stick and lots of 'em are packing.
33 posted on 11/17/2008 11:51:22 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: Exton1

Hillary would never allow it.


34 posted on 11/17/2008 11:55:22 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: Exton1
If no President is qualified by January 20th, then the vice President, if qualified, takes office. If neither is qualife.... I'm not sure, but Congress is supposed to have provided for such a case by law.

However if votes for The One were objected to, and the objection sustained (not bloody likely as it's the DemonRat Congress that would have to sustain it.) then no qualified cannidate would have gotten a majority of the votes, which throws the election into the House, but the House can only pick from the top three qualified candidates, who got electoral votes.Those would be McCain, McCain and McCain, unless some elector is "unfaithful" and votes for someone else, whom the House could then pick. I would expect that there might a couple of Dim electors who would vote for someone other than The One, possibly just as "insurance", in case the Bama candidacy goes all to snot. If that happened, then the House could pick that person, assuming they were qualified.

35 posted on 11/18/2008 12:00:12 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You have to have a federal permit to acquire a firearm in the Phillipines, and to get a permit you have to be a citizen. Ex Pats cannot get a permit.

Local Police Chiefs also have the ability to issue firearms to citizens, and they are going to hand out 12 ga. SGs to people in the MORO region, to fight them off.

The way around this is to have a boat of foreign registry and keep your weapons on the boat, etc.

36 posted on 11/18/2008 12:02:19 AM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: kingu
Your notions are pretty well outside the Constitutionally *commanded* procedures. There are no provisions for a "do over", rather if no qualified candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes, then the House decides, but can only pick from candidates, eligible ones, who got electoral votes (and only from the top three vote getters, all of which would be McCain...unless an unfaithful elector votes for someone other than The O-Man, in which case that person (or persons, if there be more than one) would also be in consideration for selection by the House.

There is no way Pelosi can get the job, unless she is one of those other eligible persons who get votes from "rogue" electors". The same is true for Biden, who would however act as President until the House finally picks one.

37 posted on 11/18/2008 12:08:12 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Fee
In the mean time the swearing in is delayed and President Bush will remain in office till it is resolved.

No, the Constitution, 20th amendment, states that if by January 20th, no President shall have qualified, then the Vice President, which would likely be Biden, would act as President.

If Obami is shown not to be qualified, nothing Good will come of it, other than his not becoming President, and thus the Constitution being upheld.

But as to events in the country at large, nothing good.

38 posted on 11/18/2008 12:11:43 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
If no President is qualified by January 20th, then the vice President, if qualified, takes office

Slight correction. the VP *acts* as President, until the House gets around to selecting a real one, which might indeed be until 2012. However the VP in question would not be the "old" VP, but rather the "new" one, assuming he is qualified to be President.

It would really be better for all concerned it this is going to come out, it does so *before* the elector meets and cast their votes, even though that could result in a Dim President, either by a majority of the electors voting for him, or by them splitting their votes among multiple candidates, and the election being thrown into the House, which would very likely pick one of the Dems.

39 posted on 11/18/2008 12:20:05 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: kingu

kingu: Nancy Pelosi’s term as speaker of the house ends when congress meets to elect a new speaker in January. She can only inherit the presidency before that vote if George Bush and Dick Cheney both are incapacitated and unable to serve out their terms. Her term would end when the next president takes the oath of office in January.

Hey,that was my suggestion a few weeks ago, have them step down at the end when it doesn’t matter, she is it for the end and it opens up her office as speaker and as a rep so she would have to run again and the Republicans put the first woman President in even for a very short term.


40 posted on 11/18/2008 12:29:49 AM PST by volslover
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