What if terrorists kill 100 congressmen?

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | April 22, 2004 | Sarah Foster

[Thor_Hammar]

I intend to politically "kill" my Congresscritter, Marty bin Meehan the Sheik from Lowell next November 2nd. I can easily come up with the names of 99 others whom the voters should "terminate" in the next election.

[MindBender26]

>"What if terrorists kill 100 congressmen?"

My, Oh My, Oh My.

I do think the Admin Monitor will be busy with this one tonight.......

[zeugma]

Uh, it would be a good start?

Someone had to say it.

[No Truce With Kings]

"Uh, it would be a good start?"

Beat me to it.

[rednek]

AMEN Brother!

regards - red

[isthisnickcool]

Maybe as a test. Congress should just all go home for a couple of years to see if the country would "survive" without them "working for us".

I bet we would do fine without them. This has proven to be the case with some of them anyway. For example, John Kerry has not been to work in the Senate for over a year. Lieberman was not around much during the presidential campaign. The other guys in Congress that ran for president were not around much either. Which proves none of them were all that important.

[Checkers]

The bad news is that 335 survived.

[Brimack34]

God these people think they are so important. They make our lives hard not easy. When is the last time they passed a bill that helped us? Not take more rights away.

[gorush]

We would have our best chance of re-instituting the Constitution in all it's glory....hey, a guy can dream!

[11th Earl of Mar]

It depends...

WHICH 100 Congressmen are we talking about???

[Checkers]

Isn't this an example of solution in search of a problem?

Why is it so important to fill these seats so fast? Is their some important law they need to pass? Or some funding they need to approve?

How about doing that stuff now?!

[Ulysses]

It depends...

WHICH 100 Congressmen are we talking about???

My sentiments exactly!

[TASMANIANRED]

How many do we get to loose in the Senate and do we get to pick them?

[RWR8189]

I believe I read that there are already remedies for replacing senators, but there has never been non-elected persons serving in the House.

[Tall_Texan]

The most sensible answer is for any tragedy or terrorist act that kills ( x ) Congresspeople should have the state governor appoint a temporary replacement, based on recommendations of the state party chairmen, that would insure that each state congressional delegation would be comprised of the exact same party representation as it was before the tragedy.

IOW, if a state with 20 congressmen, lost 4 Democrats and 6 Republicans in the tragedy, the governor, regardless of their party affiliation, would be obligated to appoint 4 Democrats and 6 Republicans to replace the dead congresspeople.

Elections for permanent replacements would take place, say, 180 days from the time the appointments were selected.

It's fair (meaning Democrats will be against it) and is generally incorruptable.

There would be more details which would have to be worked out but it would preserve the same party balance as existed before the tragedy.

[OregonRancher]

We could select our representatives by throwing darts at a list of registered voters and have better results than we do now.

[Tall_Texan]

Is their some important law they need to pass? Or some funding they need to approve?

Umm, yes. Federal disaster relief, for one.

[KillTime]

I remember reading only a few days after 9/11 about Hollywood stopping production on a movie that was about a sole surviving bureaucrat trying to restore the US gov't after an attack wiped out all of congress, SC and Exec branch, being that the storyline hit too close to home following the attacks. Anyone recall reading that also? I was interested if that was based on a book and whether or not production would eventually start again.

[TADSLOS]

What would that be...at least 100 pork barrel projects down the tubes?...for 45 days anyway.