Chat­ting to hasimir at pixiewitch7’s party the other week, he noted that if the Demo­crats got the US House and then they impeached both Bush and Cheney, the Speaker of the House would be Pres­id­ent. (Thank you, West Wing, for teach­ing us everything we know about Amer­ican politics).

Anyway, that Speaker would be a Demo­crat, cos that’s how it works. And we were just think­ing, “Ooh, neat! Clever way to get a Demo­crat pres­id­ent early’

But it gets better.

You see, the Speaker of the House is now a woman. The first woman to ever be Speaker. 

And that means our little scen­ario would turn up a woman president.

To mis­quote a Gary Larson car­toon, “Oh please, oh please, oh please”.