# Who's in Charge?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-in-charge/369603>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 21, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-in-charge/369603 "2006-08-21T15:38:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-in-charge/369603/21 "2006-08-24T15:43:37Z")

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If then-Senator Al Gore could invent the Internet, then imagine what a President Ted “Tubes” Stevens could do to revolutionize it!

And to answer the OP: yes, Bush would still be President. The Electoral College made him so, and Congress tabulated the votes and acknowledged it. Since I think the evidence of electoral fraud was far stronger in 2000 than in 2004, this might be a form of rough justice: Cheney resigns. Bush appoints Gore as VP under the 25th Amendment. Bush resigns.

Never gonna happen, though. Not in a million years.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-in-charge/369603/22 "2006-08-25T12:06:33Z")

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[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold]  
Ted Stevens is third in line to the Presidency? Ouch.  
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Seeing how one of those in front of him is Cheney, that makes him 2 1/2 heartbeats away.

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