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That is INCORRECT. Anyone who can get majority support will be elected Speaker of the House. The party with the majority does not automatically get the speakership. Also, the "Speaker" does not even have to be an elected member of Congress. If for instance the GOP wins control of the house and they believe that Nancy Pelosi is the best choice, she could be re-elected even if she loses her race in San Francisco.
You have just suggested what could happen but never has and I can assure you that Nasty Nancy will never be elected to that position by Republicans.
Really? He was out last night, smacking obama hard about his "enemies" comment.
I am just now listening to Boehner doing his bad mouthing of Obama for calling us his enemies. Yep, Boehner has been anything but silent the last couple of weeks.
If something happened to the President and the Vice President then the speaker will take over right, so if the Republicans win then Sen Bohner will be in line right.......
Hope you weren't making a joke about having a President Bohner...
Any duly elected member of the House of Representatives can offer him or herself for the position of Speaker of the House. Which ever member garners the greatest vote from amongst his/her peers will have the privilege of assuming said position. That person typically emerges from the party of the majority.
NONE of this will happen before the new Congress is sworn in, January, 2011. Unless, of course, there's some hostile take over of congress by any majority of its members.
Presumably, Boehner would become the Speaker, but there are many against the idea now, much less among whatever new group would have to win in order to give the Republicans a majority. And of course, Boehner has basically been hiding out the past couple of weeks, fearful of saying something that Democrats might take advantage of and cost his party votes and seats. That's the sort of bold leadership we need in these difficult times.
Only in these oxymoronic times could anyone equate 'hiding out' with 'bold leadership'. But, I guess that's what it takes in R-world
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# Office Current Officer
1 Vice President Joe Biden
2 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Daniel Inouye
4 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
5 Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner
6 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates[2]
7 Attorney General Eric Holder
8 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
9 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
10 Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke
11 Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan
14 Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
15 Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
16 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
18 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
So if Pelosi wants to be Prez, she has until the new Congress is sworn in to take action.
President Sebelius?
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