If Washington blows up: think the unthinkable: it's 2009, and our government is decapitated in a terrorist attack. Who will become Speaker? Who'll sit on the Supreme Court? And as for the presidency ... Herewith, an immodest proposal to prepare for a day we hope will never come.(SCENARIO)
American Prospect, The, March, 2006 by Ackerman, Bruce
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NOVEMBER 2009: AFTER A HARD-FOUGHT victory the year before, the new Democratic administration has come out of the starting gates in good shape. With the airwaves full of brave talk of new initiatives, there is real hope of a new beginning. Then the unthinkable happens. A small nuclear device rips the heart out of Pennsylvania Avenue: The White House is totally obliterated; Capitol Hill looks like a war zone.
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Most of the nation's leaders are lost beneath the rubble. Under current constitutional provisions and law, here's what happens next: The secretary of defense, safe in the ...
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