Nooo Bill Clinton For Speaker of the House

[Perky]

Bill Clinton Gave up his license to practice law....I do not think the ABA would give him a favorable rating.

A better position would be Speaker of the House. He does not need to be a member... and if he annouces tonight...that he wants to lead the DEMS.. we might pull off enought seats to from moderate republican districts to take over ths house and restore fiscal responsibility.


Gawd I would love to see Tom DeLay's face on that one.

[Caution]

1. you have to be a representative to be SOH

and it's doubtful if he were going to run again that he would run as a rep. I find it much more likely that he ends up as secretary general of the UN.

[Perky]

3. No you don't

I have checked this out... you need not be a member.

I was suprised myself.

[AIJ Alom]

5. you do not have to be a member.

civics class taught me that.

[Caution]

7. I stand corrected.

From Wikipedia:

n practice, this amounts to the speaker's election from the sitting house members. The speaker is thus almost always elected along strictly partisan lines, and is thus a member of the House's majority party. (The Speaker need not, by the Constitutional provision stated above, be a member of the House, but to date has always been one). A Representative who does not vote for his or her party's leader as Speaker may be deprived of committee assignments.

Speaker of the House

[MsTryska]

2. He's going to the UN which is where i'd want him.

he deserves the World Stage now, not just ours.

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Secretary of State

Yeah I know the Kerry team seems set on giving that job to Holbrooke, but I gotta say Clinton would be better right now.

The next Secretary of State is going to have to undo a lot of damage caused by Bush and the neocon shitballs. Why not start with someone whom they already know and trust?

[Big Al from WI]

6. Holbrooke doesn't want Secretary of State

He wants Condi's job (NSA.)

[onenote]

8. clinton can't be president again

and Speaker of the House is in the line of succession. I don't have my copy of the Constitution handy, so I'm not sure if that fact would disqualify Bill from being Speaker. In any event, the Dems would have to recapture the House, and as much as I hope that could happen, it seems like a long shot. And if it did happen, I don't see Bill trying to stand in the way of Nancy Pelosi's opportunity to become the first woman speaker.

onenote

[colonel odis]

9. i believe john quincy adams is the only ex-president to serve

in congress after serving as president, which he did up until his death. i don't look for clinton running for a house seat from new york or arkansas. nor do i look for congress to be magnanimous enough to grant him a job that's about one-tenth as powerful as the one he held for 8 years.

i don't think he would be secretary of state because that would relegate him to cabinet status and kerry would be his boss. something tells me the big dawg ain't interested in anyone else being his boss.

my guess would be ambassador to the u.n. because, as another post-er said, it's the world stage. and other countries loved clinton. (remember the difference in w's visit to ireland and his?)

another option i could see is chairman of the democratic party. which i think he would excel at. hell, he'd excel at any of those positions because he's damned good at what he does.

[many a good man]

10. Junior Senator from New York?

n/t

[Perky]

11. Umm I think Hilary might object

talk about grounds for divorce.