Sen. Rand Paul Calls for Elon Musk to Be Named Speaker of the House

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[h=1]Sen. Rand Paul Calls for Elon Musk to Be Named Speaker of the House[/h][h=3]Senator Rand Paul has suggested that Elon Musk be named the new Speaker of the House to replace Rep. Mike Johnson.[/h]The Kentucky politician made the suggestion in a Thursday morning post on X.
“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . .” Sen. Paul began.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/sen-rand-paul-calls-elon-musk-be-named/
 
I'm happy that Mike Johnson is being phased out, but why Elon Musk in particular? Kind of silly.
 
I guess that Rand was impressed with Elons calling out the CR bill.

And maybe his libertarian leanings in general.
 
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This is a bit silly... and honestly it would be beneath Elon. But the idea is still kind of fun.
 
They admittedly aren't the best judges of character, given who Rand has endorsed/hung around in the past. Not discrediting what they've done and continue to do, but Ron was much better with who to endorse.
 
This would pose constitutional issues.

While it may not require a person to be a member of Congress, the Constitution grants the power to Congress to determine the line of presidential succession beyond the vice president.

Currently under the 1947 Succession Act, the Speaker of the House is third in line to the presidency.

Musk, of course, cannot serve as president.

But still, it would be great, just to watch the Marxists' heads explode.
 
I don't think Rand is being serious. He's just saying this just so he can troll the Democrats and have them meltdown over it.
 
It would be impossible to not note the rhetoric about President Musk, or VP Trump, or CoPresidents Musk and Trump or, Shadow President, or who is calling the shots, or strings....
Funny thing is none of these people were questioning any of this for the last 4 years.
 
Anti Federalist said:
This would pose constitutional issues.

While it may not require a person to be a member of Congress, the Constitution grants the power to Congress to determine the line of presidential succession beyond the vice president.

Currently under the 1947 Succession Act, the Speaker of the House is third in line to the presidency.

Musk, of course, cannot serve as president.

But still, it would be great, just to watch the Marxists' heads explode.
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I would think if a Speaker were ineligible to be President they could still serve as Speaker but just be skipped over in case of sucession.
 
Anti Federalist said:
This would pose constitutional issues.

While it may not require a person to be a member of Congress, the Constitution grants the power to Congress to determine the line of presidential succession beyond the vice president.

Currently under the 1947 Succession Act, the Speaker of the House is third in line to the presidency.

Musk, of course, cannot serve as president.

But still, it would be great, just to watch the Marxists' heads explode.
Click to expand...

That act includes provisions for cases when a given person in the line of succession fails to qualify to act as President. It just skips to the next person in succession.
 
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