Gore/Lieberman 2000 Collaborative Thread

June 30th 2001:Speaker Dennis Hasslet steps down after multiple sexual assault reports.

Tom Delay becomes speaker



September 11 2001:
Two planes hit the World Trade Center in NYC and two planes hit The Pentagon and The Capital Building killing Vice President Joe Lieberman while speaking about the pentagon being in debt and trying to fix it.
 
November 2, 2001: Disney and Pixar release Monsters, Inc. to cinemas. Featuring Billy Crystal as the voice of Mike Wazowski and John Goodman as the voice of James P. Sullivan, the film receives overwhelmingly positive reviews, with many calling it one of the great family films of the year.

OOC: Are we still having 9-11 happen like Jaguar's post has?
 
September 12, 2001: Al Gore stands amid a pile of rubble in Manhattan while declaring: "The fight to capture the cowards begins now! Everyone around the world will see what Americans can do when we work together for a common goal! I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL WE HAVE CAPTURED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE TERRORISTS!" Due to the tense state of the Union and Gore's speedy response, his approval rating jumps to 84%.
 
September 13, 2001: Al Gore declares war on Afghanistan, believing that they are harboring the Al-Qaeda terrorists responsible for 9/11. A day later, PM Tony Blair joins the bandwagon and promises to send troops into Afghanistan as well.
 
September 15, 2001: Controversy erupts when President Gore, feeling forced to look more "passionate" to the American people, proclaims that: "We will drink the blood of every one of these goddamn terrorists and wear the remainder as war-paint!" Though conservative Americans are pleasantly surprised by the President's newfound courage, moderates and liberals become disturbed, believing that the tragedy has traumatized him.
 
September 15, 2001: Controversy erupts when President Gore, feeling forced to look more "passionate" to the American people, proclaims that: "We will drink the blood of every one of these goddamn terrorists and wear the remainder as war-paint!" Though conservative Americans are pleasantly surprised by the President's newfound courage, moderates and liberals become disturbed, believing that the tragedy has traumatized him.
September 16, 2001: A controversial political cartoon appears in The New York Times depicting Al Gore as a savage tribesman ripping the beating heart out of a dead Taliban soldier.

February 3, 2002: The Denver Broncos defeat the Dallas Cowboys 20-16 to win Super Bowl XXXVI.
 
September 22nd, 2001: Pakistan promises to help capture the remaining Al-Qaeda terrorists in exchange for some of America's oil reserves. Desperate to get all the help possible, Gore accepts.

September 25th, 2001: Gore gives an ultimatum to Al-Qaeda. Give up Bin Laden or face the fury of hundreds of thousands of soldiers that will destroy their group. Terrified of his comrades turning him in, Bin Laden commits suicide.
 
September 28, 2001: President Gore announces he has selected Tom Daschle (D-SD) to succeed the late Joe Lieberman as Vice President of the United States.
 
October 1 2001:Senate accepts the VP nomination for Tom Daschle.

October 3rd 2001: In the living room at the Number One Observerty Center Tom Daschle is sworn in as the 47th Vice President of the United States.
 
July 4th 2002: Ronald Reagan appears on camera for the first time in almost a decade saying his Alttimzers has been fully treated.

Alzheimers really doesn't work like that, it can never be fully treated. Reagan was also really far along at that point and it's not likely even with treatment anything would improve. I've read accounts by some of his aides that say he was just a shell with almost no memories at all. When they tried to tell him his daughter died, he reportedly said, "Who's that?"
 
June 3rd 2001:George Harrison goes into cancer threatment (From the Bush TL)

July 4th 2002: Ronald Reagan appears on camera for the first time in almost a decade saying his Alttimzers has been fully treated.

That's not how Alzheimer's works. Reagan is going to die, and in a really terrible physical and mental at that.
 
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