OK. This may be straining at
a gnat and swallowing a camel, but…maybe that's what bloggers are supposed to do.
The presidential succession
amendment makes the House Speaker 2nd in line to run this country.
That is, if both president and veep become incapacitated, for any reason, the
speaker becomes president. The theory was, when passed, instead of the
Secretary of State—a presidential appointee, taking over, someone elected, even
if IN-directly by the people, should get the job.
All this wayyyy before
gridlock set in.
So 218 votes of the House
could make someone our chief executive. Frankly, in all the Tea Party bickering
within the majority GOP party in the House, that frightens me. It is,
theoretically possible that a Tea Party Republican, or someone who would shut our
government down could get that job. Stranger things have happened. (Like
Donald Trump being the top choice of one of our 2 major parties; who’d a thunk
that?)
Solution? Reason and a
true love of country; an appreciation for the spirit of compromise so absent in
our nation’s capital...or maybe a realization that at least the Secretary of
State was an appointee of the person who won our national election and would
best carry on the president’s policies. I’m not holding my breath.
Just one more manifestation
of the wild things gridlock has done to our national consensus—and shows no
signs of abating.
George Washington weeps.
I'm just sayin'...
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