How could Pelosi be POTUS? She would go back down to level Zero if Obama is found to ineligible. She is only in her position as well as Reid due to Obama being POTUS.
See post #183 for my speculation on how that might happen.
That's not true. She was elected by the Congress to be Speaker of the House and the Constitution deems the Speaker of the House to be in line for the Presidency in case neither the President, nor the VP, can serve. She was Speaker of the House before Obama ran for President and she was re-elected before Obama was inaugurated.
Unfortunately, not true. She is in her position as a result of hte 2006 midterm Congressional elections. Democrats won the majority and thus the voting bloc power and ability to select the Speaker of the House.
Reid is in no position whatsoever. He is Senate Majority leader, not President of the Senate, Pro Tempore. That position belongs to Sen. Robert Byrd, ancient fossil of Virginia.
If there is ultimately validity to these legal arguments and proceedings to be carried out in their wake, it would be strategically best for the GOP (as the current minority party in both house and Senate), to wait until immediately after the 2010 midterms.
Given the current state of disgruntlement among “We, the People”, there should be an all-new cast of characters - which would hopefully mean Pelosi’s removal as Speaker and her relegation to a powerless nobody in the minority party, with no committee assignments...
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