Seat-belt laws are for the little people. It would be poetic justice if he were to smash that pretty mug in an accident. I had trouble mustering up much sympathy for Corzine, blasting down the highway above the speed limit on the way to a political photo op, sans belt.
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FIFY.
” It would be poetic justice if he were to smash that pretty mug in an accident.”
But not fatally or incapacitating, let us hope for the sake of the Republic.
Two words.
President. Biden.
At least slow Joe’s replacement is no longer Nancy Pelosi.
It doesn’t automatically follow that if the VP becomes president, the Speaker becomes VP. It just doesn’t work that way. Consider what happened during the Nixon Administration as the most recent example:
VP Agnew resigned (due to tax issues, IIRC)
Nixon nominated Gerald Ford to replace Agnew as VP.
The Senate confirmed Ford’s nomination.
When Nixon resigned, Ford became president.
Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller to be VP and he was confirmed.
Before that, when JFK was assassinated and LBJ became president, he nominated Walter Mondale for the VP position.
The order of succession is in the unlikely event that the president and VP simultaneously die or become medically unfit for office. It’s a shame we can’t get rid of them for simply being unfit for office.
It doesn’t follow at all. If (and I know, it’s a frightening thought) Biden were to become president, he would nominate a new VP.
Before that, when JFK was assassinated and LBJ became president, he nominated Walter Mondale for the VP position.
No, the Vice-Presidency became vacant. There was no mechanism for filling vacant Vice-Presidencies until the 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967.
And Mondale wasn’t involved at all. When LBJ sought election to the presidency in his own right, the 1964 Democratic convention put Hubert Humphrey on the ticket as his running mate (I don’t know whether this was at LBJ’s request, as is normally the case these days certainly).
Mondale became the junior U.S. Senator from Minnesota after Humphrey left the Senate to become veep. Then Jimmy Carter had Mondale for his running mate in 1976.