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...Clinton has to leave office and the Speaker of the House becomes President. If he can't serve, Strom Thurmond, the president pro tempore of the Senate, becomes President...
...have in mind a bloodbath that is thoroughly bipartisan. Let the Clintons be the first to go. American politics will not be healthy until they are purged from the system. Issue exit visas to Trent Lott and Tom DeLay, to Dick Armey, to the ancient and awful Strom Thurmond and the odious Jesse Helms. Let the ostraca fall upon the bombastic charlatan Jesse Jackson, upon Henry Hyde and Maxine Waters, upon Barbara Boxer and Orrin Hatch...
...House. Since the new Congress will already be in session on January 20, the Speaker will most likely be Republican Dennis Hastert. If for any reason the Coach can't take over the top job, next in line is the president pro tempore of the Senate, the venerable Strom Thurmond ("pro tempore," by the way, is fancy lingo for "oldest guy"). This of course has led to lots of ageist chuckling (the most outrageous: the Onion's assertion that a President Thurmond would appoint Orval Faubus as Secretary of Slaves...
...assume a total nightmare. The electoral college doesn't pick a president, the House and Senate don't pick a president - all by Jan. 20. What happens? A: Clinton has to leave office and, under the Presidential Succession Act, Strom Thurmond, the president pro tempore of the Senate, becomes President...
...addition, the health of Republican Senators Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina is questionable, and their departures would most likely result in Democratic Senators appointed by the Democratic governors in their respective states. Even if the Democrats only pick up one or two seats, they could be on their way to a majority...