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President Obama is impeached (for Benghazi or violating War Powers Act - take your pick). Rather than go through the disgrace of a Senate trial and further sully his legacy - the president resigns.
Joe Biden succeeds him - but realizes the unpopularity of this outcome and his own woeful lack of qualification for the job - so he resigns in turn.
Next in the line of succession is Speaker John Boehner. He sees his opportunity and decides that he can be more effective continuing as Speaker then by being president, so he appoints Mitt Romney as his Vice President per the 25th Amendment - and then resigns.
Mitt Romney then becomes the 47th President of the United States (and 4th in two months) and appoints Paul Ryan as V.P.
President Obama is impeached (for Benghazi or violating War Powers Act - take your pick). Rather than go through the disgrace of a Senate trial and further sully his legacy - the president resigns.
Joe Biden succeeds him - but realizes the unpopularity of this outcome and his own woeful lack of qualification for the job - so he resigns in turn.
Next in the line of succession is Speaker John Boehnor. He sees his opportunity and decides that he can be more effective continuing as Speaker then by being president, so he appoints Mitt Romney as his Vice President per the 25th Amendment - and then resigns.
Mitt Romney then becomes the 47th President of the United States (and 4th in two months) and appoints Paul Ryan as V.P.
That scenario seems more plausible than Romney winning the popular vote and electoral college in a legitimate election.
That scenario seems more plausible than Romney winning the popular vote and electoral college in a legitimate election.
LOL....he lost by 3%. After a brutally negative campaign against him and a hurricane at the last minute affecting the votes of undecided voters, all when running against "the greatest, most popular president everrrrr."
You would have to be high on some pretty potent drugs or absurdly drunk to believe such a scenario could ever occur in this here thing we call reality.
Did you miss the step that the President ( Biden in your example) appoints a VP which is confirmed by a majority of both houses of Congress?
No one whom the vice president would appoint would be confirmed - and the Supreme Court would rule that the speaker should move up for the good of the country - rather than drag out a pointless political charade.
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