Prsidential Order...

[KerryOn]

This has been posted before, and I will post it again. Everyone should learn it. This is the order of who would be president if something would happen.

The Vice President Richard Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate1 Ted Stevens
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of the Treasury John Snow
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton
Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez2
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao3
Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshio Mineta
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson
Secretary of Homeland Security4 Michael Chertoff

[dhaight]

1. Scary Sheeeeeeeeet

That's why they ALL must go ... quickly.

[newyawker99]

8. Hi dhaight!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Dave Reynolds]

2. Always nice to have a firing order...

:evilgrin:

Just kiddin' Agent Mike!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. That looks like a police department rap sheet.

Oh. It's the Bush administration. My error.

[rpannier]

6. That's what I was thinking. n/t

[never_get_over_it]

4. This will never happen because it take 2/3rds vote in Senate

to convict and remove - but the only chance of him even being impeached you would have to change the Speaker of the House to Nancy Pelosi because unless the Dems take back the House this is never neve never going to happen - unless maybe Fitzgerald indicts Bush and Cheney - oh wouldn't that be sweet!!!!

[longship]

5. Pray for 2006.

But if we have to impeach now, then we should let it happen and roll the dice. It cannot be worse than Chimpy. Could a defanged Dennis Hastert be a helluva lot better than an out of control Chimp?

[mcscajun]

7. The footnotes are missing...

2) Carlos Gutierrez born in Cuba - Ineligible

3) Elaine Chao born in Taiwan - Ineligible

4) The 1947 act has been modified several times with the addition of new cabinet positions, but the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 has caused controversy that has resulted in its secretary not yet being placed in the succession order.

Many in Congress feel the Secretary should be placed not at the bottom of the order as is the tradition, but higher in the order - the rationale being that, as the officer responsible for disaster relief and security, the Secretary would be more capable of acting as President than, say, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

As of early 2005, the Secretary of Homeland Security has not been put into the line of succession. Senate Bill 442, approved by the Senate on July 27, 2005, would, if it were to become law, place the Secretary of Homeland Security after the Attorney General and before the Secretary of the Interior in the line of succession. That bill and a companion bill, H.R. 1455, are currently pending before the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee.

Despite years of debate, the matter remains unresolved and as a result, the Secretary of Homeland Security is not among those constitutionally eligible to act as President under the act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act_of_1947