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To: FreeStateYank

How’s this for a scenario:

Obama is removed from office. Pelosi is ousted. While impeachment proceedings against Biden are moving forward, the Senate, seeing the writing on the wall, begins looking for a new President Pro Tem.

In the proverbial smoke-filled rooms, Blue Dogs and Republicans form a loose coalition, realizing that in this time of crisis they need to appear statesmanlike and bipartisan. They put their heads together to pick a President Pro Tem and future POTUS both sides can tolerate ...

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona.


259 posted on 09/11/2009 5:49:38 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

A real page-turner!


261 posted on 09/11/2009 5:56:53 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: ReignOfError

He’s not eligible, either, that ludicrous Senate Resolution 511 notwithstanding.


265 posted on 09/11/2009 6:10:15 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ReignOfError
How’s this for a scenario: Obama is removed from office. Pelosi is ousted. While impeachment proceedings against Biden are moving forward, the Senate, seeing the writing on the wall, begins looking for a new President Pro Tem. In the proverbial smoke-filled rooms, Blue Dogs and Republicans form a loose coalition, realizing that in this time of crisis they need to appear statesmanlike and bipartisan. They put their heads together to pick a President Pro Tem and future POTUS both sides can tolerate ... Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona.

Actually, there's a good argument to be made that if Obama was never eligible (as opposed to becoming ineligible after the fact), then the election would have to be re-adjudicated by the House. With no (eligible) candidate now having received a majority of electoral votes, the Congress would be required to choose the President from one of the 5 top candidates receiving electoral votes -- a list of one: John McCain.

Since Biden was elected to his office by the EC on a separate ballot and is Constitutionally qualified, unless he is removed via impeachment, he would continue to be the Vice-President. Of course, if he's forced to resign or is impeached, then President McCain would choose a new Vice-President, subject to the approval of the Senate. I could easily see (especially in exchange for Congress to avoid a long, protected battle over the ongoing vacancy crisis) McCain agreeing to appoint a Democrat in a show of bipartisanship... and whom better than a high-profile Democrat who is currently in the Administration already... say, as Secretary of State...

270 posted on 09/11/2009 6:24:02 AM PDT by kevkrom (Obama's Waterloo: a "hockey mom" with a laptop and a Facebook account)
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To: ReignOfError

Juan McCain is not NBC either and Senate resolution is going to change that. Besides, their resolutions do not carry weight of law.


332 posted on 09/11/2009 8:10:32 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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