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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve

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To: Cisco who started this subject11/24/2000 5:51:19 PM
From: CYBERKEN   of 6710
 
If Algore manages to get himself sworn in in January, the Joint Chiefs should resign and announce that the new president does not have the confidence of the armed forces. In other lands, that would have required an immediate abdication (or resignation, if you will). That would not happen here, since the constitution does not provide for such a thing. But the record would be established in a way that no speech or congressional resolution could. The pressure on Algore to resign, or on the House to impeach, would be huge.

Of course, that's not at all necessary, The House can prevent his taking office by normal, constitutional means. With the travesty of disenfranchising the military voters already a part of this election's history, there should be nothing to stop them.

The reason for the first suggestion is because the JCS has ALREADY disgraced itself by not resigning over the Clinton Kosovo genocide, and thus owes one to the Founders, their own ancestors, who fought with honor, and us...
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