Posted by
B.N. Sharpe on Thursday, December 21, 2006 3:54:28 PM
Much like the Thursday "man in the street" interviews Hannity
used to have his ditzy little airhead producer do, I have over the past
few years quizzed people on their contemporary civics knowledge with
the following premise, though I didn't think that it would happen, as I
am SO afraid that it might now. Or soon after January 3rd.
"Giving you credit for knowing who the President is, who would become
President if the next terrorist attack was the assassination of George
W. Bush?" About half knew that it would be Vice President Dick
Cheney. That, of course, brought us to the next step of, "well,
if Bush is assassinated; with his cardiac history, Cheney would drop
dead from a heart attack...who would become the President?" One
person, among the hundreds to whom I gave this little quiz knew that it
would be Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. And, of course,
nobody could name Senate President Pro Tem Ted Stevens as next in line,
or knew that it then went to the Cabinet in order of departmental
seniority.
I never held much trepidation of that scenario unfolding, as the
Islamofacists would gain little, if anything, in changing our
leadership in that manner at that time. But now, or in another
couple of weeks or so, a Bush assassination and a Cheney heart attack would mean
that one of the Islamofacists' favorite Americans, Nancy Pelosi would
be in charge to gladly and insanely surrender the country and
western civilation to them. Wonder how she'll look in one of
those ridiculous burkhas?