Changing The Personnel Does Not Solve The Problem

[Flanders]

The Constitution gives Congress the authority needed to change the presidential line of succession. Why should it be changed? Answer: Every bureaucrat on the current list is scarier than a thirsty Count Dracula. Check it out for yourself then tell me if there is one bureaucrat on the list that you want for president. Most of them should be run out of town on a rail never mind becoming president by a fluke:​

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession​

Years ago, I suggested changing the line; replacing the bureaucrats with state governors starting with the governor from the most populous state irrespective of political party. He or she would be followed by the governor from the least populous state; then alternate in the same way down through all of the governors. I would even put the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the current line before every bureaucrat including the Secretary of Defense.

Parenthetically, it was understood that Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright were not eligible when they were in the line of succession because they were naturalized citizens as was George W. Bush’s secretary of labor, Elaine Chao.

With or without changing the line of succession, Congress, and/or the Supreme Court, should eliminate all wiggle room for presidential eligibility in elections and succession.

Every bureaucrat in the line must be replaced by elected officials. Note that cabinet secretaries who once held elected positions are no exception when it comes to the line of succession.

And have you noticed that liberals scream the loudest about their sacred Right to vote for the people who govern them, yet nobody votes for the bureaucrats who fill the line of succession after the first three elected officials; the vice president, the speaker of the house, and the president pro tem of the Senate.

It got worse in 2011

The Presidential Line Of Succession Act of 2011 added ambassadors to the line if the others are wiped out. I looked for a complete list of everybody in the current line and could not find one that included the ambassadors first proposed by the 109th Congress. I wonder why it is such a secret?​

The Tea Party In The Presidential Line Of Succession?

She is back in line:

Elaine Chao​

Trump to name Elaine Chao Transportation secretary
By Mark Hensch - 11/29/16 11:00 AM EST

Trump to name Elaine Chao Transportation secretary​

 

[SavannahMann]

Other than in some Hollywood imagination it is unlikely that the line will go past the Speaker.

The confluence of events to get past that point is rather tenuous don't you think?

In Madam Secretary the Secretary of State got the job when the President was out of communication and the VP was in emergency surgery. The Speaker was on the plane with the President and the Senate President Pro Tem was suffering from Memory issues.

On West Wing the Vice President had resigned and the Presidents daughter was kidnapped.

For Designated Survivor everyone was blown up in the Capital Building. Because the bomb sniffing dogs were in vacation or something.

But because these things are barely possible we have the line of succession. The people on the list are voted on. By our representatives in the Senate. But explain to me why the Governor of California would be a better choice than the Secretary of State. Immediately complaints would flow bringing the legitimacy of both people into question.

The Secretary of State would have the advantage of being picked by the elected by a majority of the State Electors President. The Governor of California would be elected by the people in 2% of the states. The other 49 states would immediately object and properly in my opinion that the California Governor was not picked by even a plurality of the voters.

There may be issues with the line of succession. But your solution would make the problem even worse.


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[Manonthestreet]

Agree about line should exclude appointees......

 

[AnCap'n_Murica]

The republicans manning bureaucracies that they have been on record saying should be done away with.

You can't make this shit up.

 

[Flanders]

Other than in some Hollywood imagination it is unlikely that the line will go past the Speaker.

To SavannahMann: Very likely in a nuclear world:

Think about it this way: Democrats and Republicans alike use bureaucracies to implement big government, global government, policies that could never be legislated; so there is not a chance a Tea Party conservative will ever head a federal bureaucracy let alone one that would place them in the line of succession where they might suddenly ascend to the presidency after a nuclear attack. For the same reason Democrats and Republicans will never replace bureaucrats with state governors as I suggested.​

The Tea Party In The Presidential Line Of Succession?

The Secretary of State would have the advantage of being picked by the elected by a majority of the State Electors President. The Governor of California would be elected by the people in 2% of the states. The other 49 states would immediately object and properly in my opinion that the California Governor was not picked by even a plurality of the voters.

To SavannahMann: Nobody votes for a bureaucrat except big government advocates.

There may be issues with the line of succession. But your solution would make the problem even worse.

To SavannahMann: Even if you do not like the governors filling the line my solution is better than staying with bureaucrats.

 

[Flanders]

So far, Trump has his nose right up the New World Order crowd’s ass. I cannot see how Mitt Romney can be any worse than Mrs. McConnell:

The Bush administration retread has deep ties to the anti-coal Bloomberg Foundation, is married to big-time Trans-Pacific Partnership supporter and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and has deep business and political links to China.

And that’s just the beginning of her resume.​

Trump shocker! Who is Elaine Chao?
Posted By -NO AUTHOR- On 11/29/2016 @ 9:53 pm

Trump shocker! Who is Elaine Chao?​

 

[Flanders]

I cannot see how Mitt Romney can be any worse than Mrs. McConnell:

Elaine’s father, James S.C. Chao, is the founder of New York-based Foremost Maritime Corp., which ships goods to China and also buys ships from the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.​

Trump's Cabinet picks sounding alarm bells
Posted By -NO AUTHOR- On 11/30/2016 @ 7:28 pm

Trump’s Cabinet picks sounding alarm bells​

Here is chance for Trump to bring an entire industry back to this country. You can bet your ass that Elaine Chao and her husband will oppose anything that angers China. More importantly, there is not a chance Mitch McConnell —— who presides over a nest of traitors in the Senate —— will support a revitalized American merchant marine.

After the end of WWII, the US was the only country that had anything; so giving away the American Merchant Marine was considered good parasite policy. A 50/50 law was the foundation. That law says that NOT MORE THAN 50 PERCENT of American cargo leaving American ports can go on American bottoms. In other words, the US said that it would give foreign bottoms fifty percent of America’s oceangoing exports.

The 50/50 law administered the coup de gras to America’s merchant fleet. This is what actually happened with 50/50. Sharpshooters immediately saw that if they put only one percent of export cargo on American ships going foreign they would not be violating the law. The race for the lowest percentage of export cargo on American ships began, and down went the American Merchant Marine along with the American shipbuilding industry.

The U.S. could have helped war-torn countries and still have maintained a substantial American maritime industry, including shipbuilding, had the law said Fifty percent of all cargo going foreign MUST go on American ships. Unfortunately for the country, the global villagers were sneaks from day one and wouldn’t hear of it.

Democrats did nothing to correct the travesty they created.

Steamship owners had no choice but to go along with globalization. During the years the American Merchant Marine was shrinking, the argument was always used to justify the reduction said that American steamship companies could not compete with cheap foreign labor. The truth is that crew salaries never bankrupted any American steamship company; whereas, political corruption destroyed quite a few. Notably, Japan, Denmark, Canada, and one or two other maritime nations paid their unionized crews higher salaries, with more fringe benefits, than American seamen were earning. Those merchant fleets did extremely well.

I firmly believe that America’s maritime policy, set in motion before the United Nations succeeded the League of Nations in 1945, is one of the first serious moves planned and executed in preparation for the coming of a global village, global financial markets, and a global economy. All paid for with the incremental loss of individual liberties in additional to a lower standard of living for productive Americans. Basically, the parasites could not raise the standard of loving in foreign countries so they lowered America’s.

As soon as the New World Order crowd was in charge of a well-founded, well-publicized, International organization, they began lobbying for more federal legislation in order to further worldwide Socialism. Capitalistic steamship owners did not initiate the policy, but went along for the money in their realm of expertise.

Shipbuilding went down the tubes with America’s merchant fleet. There are no shipyards operating in the United States that build or repair oceangoing merchant ships. The few yards that do remain in business build military vessels. One or two American yards build smaller commercial vessels like fishing boats, tow boats, barges, etc. There used to be private sector shipyards up and down the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, as well a bunch of yards in Gulf of Mexico ports. What 50/50 contributed to the decease in American steel production is obvious as any displaced steelworker will tell you.

Aside from the obvious differences in design and purpose, merchant ships are not simply “ships.” Ships are political animals with significant political distinctions separating liquid bulk carriers (tankers), dry bulk carriers ( coal, grain, etc.), and freighters which are nearly extinct. For instance: The tanker lobby will always have more clout in Congress than does the dry bulk carrier lobby. For now, let’s hope that somebody in Washington takes a look at bringing two vital industries back to the United States irrespective of the type ship involved, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of American families those two industries will support.

WWII ended [71] years ago. The war-torn countries have been rebuilt. Now let’s rebuild the American merchant fleet with American steel, and then crew those ships with American born seamen. If members of Congress are serious about a stimulus package, a revitalized maritime industry is staring them right in the face.

Idiots, Crooks, & Bedbugs​

NOTE: America’s WWII merchant seamen ware second to the U.S. Marine Corps in the highest percentage of combat deaths.

 

[Flanders]

US Steel wants to accelerate investments, bring back jobs, CEO says
Michelle Fox
15 Hours Ago

US Steel wants to accelerate investments, bring back jobs, CEO says​

Do you think U.S. Steel CEO Mario Longhi means:

let’s rebuild the American merchant fleet with American steel, and then crew those ships with American born seamen.

 

[anotherlife]

This is like the Soviet election process. The votes went through so many formulations, that the pre agreed appointee won every time. By the way, is Elaine Chao American? She looks like a Chinese syndicate gangster.

 

[Flanders]

suddenly ascend to the presidency after a nuclear attack.

As far back as 2006 I posted messages about the flaw in the presidential line of succession. Yesterday my wife and daughter were talking about a show they watch. I found out that a variation of my nuclear scenario is a TV show called DESIGNATED SURVIVOR.

https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.joKYpxvqGiWvruE-FdsJegEsC9&pid=Api&w=285&h=181

In the TV show the Capital Building is destroyed while the president is delivering a Sate of the Union Address opening the door for a low level bureaucrat to become president. It did not take me long to learn that the premise for Designated Survivor is simple. A bureaucrat will make a great president.

I do not know who paid to produce that crapola, but they should send me a few bucks for giving them the idea.