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To: jessduntno

If Biden had to step down, would that put pelosi into the VP slot?


8 posted on 02/24/2009 8:58:27 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Computer says No..... Carole Beer)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
If Biden had to step down, would that put pelosi into the VP slot?

Nightmarish.
15 posted on 02/24/2009 9:22:14 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Senators --- Will Rogers)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
"If Biden had to step down, would that put pelosi into the VP slot?"

No. Zero would have to nominate a replacement. That is what happened when Agnew resigned due to scandal. Nixon selected Gerald Ford and the Senate ratified him.

16 posted on 02/24/2009 9:52:39 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("Sarah Palin...Unleashing the Fury of the Castrated Left!")
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

“If Biden had to step down, would that put pelosi into the VP slot?”

No. But it might put his son or his brother in! Or Bill Ayers!!


18 posted on 02/24/2009 10:26:17 AM PST by jessduntno ("...a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me." - B. Hussein Obama)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

No. Zero appoints replacement, Senate then confirms.


21 posted on 02/24/2009 11:00:35 AM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
"If Biden had to step down, would that put pelosi into the VP slot?"

Not unless Oreobama nominated her and the Senate confirmed her.

26 posted on 02/24/2009 8:47:19 PM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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