It's the only photo on the home page. And it does dominate the page. People can click on the link and see for themselves.
Political websites often have news features, and this is an appropriate photo to go with this story, IMHO.
Check the URL: this is a dot-gov website. It's not Delay's personal website, it's the government website of the Majority Leader. Isn't he third in line to the presidency, if my memory serves correctly? And he's flying the flag of a foreign country?
Your memory is bad. Speaker of the House is third, President pro-tem of the Senate is fourth, then the Cabinet starting with State and going through the list in the order they were created.
Better check into the Alzheimer's Wing, Delay is not in the line of Presidential Succession as majority leader. Hastert as Speaker is #3.
Er, no (this is something you should've learned in high school civics class). Dennis Hastert is Speaker of the House, not Tom DeLay. Majority Leader DeLay is not part of the line of succession.
The 25th Amendment reiterates what is stated in Article 2, Section 1: that the Vice President is the direct successor of the President. He or she will become President if the President cannot serve for whatever reason. The 25th also provides for a President who is temporarily disabled, such as if the President has a surgical procedure or if he or she become mentally unstable.
The original Constitution provides that if neither the President nor Vice President can serve, the Congress shall provide law stating who is next in line. Currently that law exists as 3 USC 19, a section of the U.S. Code. This law was established as part of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. There, the following line of succession is provided:
First of all, he's showing a drawing of part of a flag of a foreign country, not flying it over the Capital building. Sheesh. If he'd just talked to the Japanese Diet, it would be the rising sun I expect.
Secondly he is not 3rd in line for the Presidency, nor in the line at all. He's House majority leader, 3rd in line is the Speaker of the House. Fourth is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. I wish he was third in line, but he's not. The order, with more or less current officeholders is:
The Vice President Richard Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate1 Ted Stevens
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Secretary of the Treasury John Snow
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General John Ashcroft
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