Honestly... Shouldn't Thurmond be the one we want out of office?

[Spinaroonie]

From an Anti-Strom site:

Strom Thurmond, a Republican senator from South Carolina, is currently 100 years old, and recently was unable to perform the simple duty of gavelling the senate into order. He is often prompted by his aides to respond in affirmative or negative when asked for his vote, even though he is not apparently aware that he is voting or what the vote is about. He spends more time in the hospital or "resting" than he does "working" in the Senate. In fact, he now lives permanently in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center hospital, under the constant medical attention needed to keep him alive, and is only wheeled out right before an important vote.
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If this is true, isn't he just a big disservice to the American people, and more importantly the South Carolina people? He really isn't going out and spearheading the most important issues or getting much pork for them these days.

 

[badasschick]

Folks would just feel guilty throwing an old decrepit loser out of office, for God's sake he living in a hospital....on the other hand he just moved up on my death pool.

 

[Luminary]

Honestly

Yes !!!

 

[Byron In Exile]

Strom!!

 

[mbb308]

Strom is done. Officially.

 

[Desert Amazon]

 

[bootstomper]

I'm just glad he's been put out of OUR misery....and take Jesse Helms and a few others with you while you're at it

 

[teddybear4play]

Both Thurmond and Helms will be gone on January 3. Lindsey Graham won Strom's seat and Liddy Dole won Helms' seat.

So unclench, people.

TB4p

 

[SoulPole]

Isn't Strom 3rd or 4th in line for the Presidency right now?

 

[miles]

The only thing Strom is in line for right now is to be turned into pet food.

 

[teddybear4play]

Technically, he's fourth. But if it ever came down to that, we'd have bigger problems than Strom being in charge — the President, VP, and Speaker of the House (Dennis Hastert, R-IL) would all be dead.

TB4p

 

[deliciously_naughty]

Technically, he's fourth. But if it ever came down to that, we'd have bigger problems than Strom being in charge — the President, VP, and Speaker of the House (Dennis Hastert, R-IL) would all be dead.

TB4p

I'm missing the above statement would consititute a problem...I'd see it as a minor miracle. Then we just have someone jump out from behind a tree and yell "boo" and Thurmond is gone and we can move on from there. simple, really. Just give Shrub a pretzel, Scare Cheney and his weak heart and so forth.

NOTE---this was sarcasm people

 

[Spinaroonie]

I'm missing the above statement would consititute a problem...I'd see it as a minor miracle. Then we just have someone jump out from behind a tree and yell "boo" and Thurmond is gone and we can move on from there. simple, really. Just give Shrub a pretzel, Scare Cheney and his weak heart and so forth.

NOTE---this was sarcasm people

REPORTED TO FBI

 

[SoulPole]

Technically, he's fourth. But if it ever came down to that, we'd have bigger problems than Strom being in charge — the President, VP, and Speaker of the House (Dennis Hastert, R-IL) would all be dead.

TB4p

That's what I thought. It didn't sound right when the congressional black caucus said that Lott was "four heartbeats away from the presidency." And yes, we would indeed have bigger problems should that scenario present itself.

 

[Lost Cause]

Dead man walking........

Moot point. How about the Klan members presently in the Dem-soc circle, who's the successors of the original Dem-Socs that voted against the Civil Rights Act? Not to mention their supporters like the Black caucus, all hate groups.

 

[teddybear4play]

That's what I thought. It didn't sound right when the congressional black caucus said that Lott was "four heartbeats away from the presidency." And yes, we would indeed have bigger problems should that scenario present itself.

Well, it's really up in the air now. The U.S. Senate website still lists Robert Byrd (how ironic), the Democrat with the longest tenure, as the president pro tempore, who is third in line of succession. But if the Republicans control the Senate right now — which I thought they did, since Carnahan lost her special election — then it would be Strom. It will be a moot point in four weeks, anyway, since Ted Stevens of Alaska will be the new President Pro Tem in January. Since he's not from the Old South, he wouldn't be considered a prime candidate for racism. But given that there are about eight black people in Alaska (just kidding . . . there's twelve), you never know.

d_n, should your scenario play out, Colin Powell would assume the Presidency. Kind of ironic, since he could have had it at any point in the last decade and turned down the opportunity.

TB4p