President Bush Assassinated on 9/11

What no 'Evil Darth Cheney (TM)' invades everywhere and stamps out freedom at home TL? I thought that was obviously what would happen if he became POTUS. :p

I always heard from my leftie friends that both Bush and Cheney would "bring back slavery" if re-elected. I wonder want ever happened to that?:D
 
Well many on the left privately celebrate, only regretting that they didn't get Cheney too. <smirk>
I doubt that. How many Republican celebrations were there when Kennedy was killed?
The shock of 9/11 happening so close after the Death of President Bush might kill Cheney.

Boehner would become President as next in the line of succession as Speaker of the House.
Dennis Hastert was Speaker at the time.
Later that day, Flight 93 would crash into the US capital, while it was in session, killing Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd, among others. The remains of the senate convene and elect Strom Thurmond as President Pro Tempore, due to the Republicans having a majority of the survivors. However, before the House can elect a new speaker, Cheney dies of a heart attack due to the incredible stress of the day.
And thus Strom Thurmond became president on the darkest hour of American history.

StromThurmond.jpg
I would read the HELL out of this TL.

Edit: You could cut out a step by having Jim Jeffords stay with the GOP, keeping Thurmond as the PPT.
 
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I always heard from my leftie friends that both Bush and Cheney would "bring back slavery" if re-elected. I wonder want ever happened to that?:D

It's amusing looking back at the Clinton and WBush years and forward to the Obama Presidency that they all were responsible for their own brand of Derangement Syndrome. IIRC the infamous FEMA Concentration Camps first pop up under Clinton and were still being used by nuts under Bush and probably now Obama.

Funny how what the left accused Bush of wanting to do was fairly similar to what the right said of Clinton and Obama. :D
 
Alright, the President Thurmond scenario has long been seen as the worst-among-the-worst scenario. Delay the party switching of Jim Jeffords by a few months. Bush, Cheney and Hastert all dead on September 11, and then:eek::eek::eek: This is way better than the President Cheney idea, and this TL has the potential of getting worse than MaskedPickle's Perot TL. Thurmond died in OTL in 2003, and he may very well die no later than mid-2002 in TTL. The chance that he could survive until his OTL death would be borderline ASB. All would depend on who he picks as his Vice President. Not sure if he would be sane enough to find someone competent:p
 
Bonus points, assuming Strom dies on schedule, if not earlier, and that he doesn't clear the cabinet, his death ushers in America's first black President.
 
Strom very well may play up the racial/religious aspect of the attack after all he was a strong supporter of the internment of Japanese Americans and was considered racist even by 1940s U.S. standards.

We might see a rash of WW2 like Executive Orders. Strom is more apt to want to fight the war like WW2 with a draft, war economy, mass internment of Muslim Americans, bombing the hell out of cities, etc. The U.S. might end up at war with 3 or 4 different Middle Eastern countries in short order as I don't see Strom giving a damn about even trying to go through the UN for approval to wage war.
 
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Strom very well may play up the racial/religious aspect of the attack after all he was a strong supporter of the internment of Japanese Americans and was considered racist even by 1940s U.S. standards.

We might see a rash of WW2 like Executive Orders. Strom is more apt to want to fight the war like WW2 with a draft, war economy, mass internment of Muslim Americans, bombing the hell out of cities, etc. The U.S. might end up at war with 3 or 4 different Middle Eastern countries in short order as I don't see Strom giving a damn about even trying to go through the UN for approval to wage war.

That's assuming that he has no changed since the 40s, a unlikely scenario.
 
That's assuming that he has no changed since the 40s, a unlikely scenario.

Strom may have had a 'change' moment as far as blacks were concerned once they couldn't play the same games they could in the past to keep them from voting. But, lets just say I doubt his views and opinions deep down changed all that much.
 
Strom may have had a 'change' moment as far as blacks were concerned once they couldn't play the same games they could in the past to keep them from voting. But, lets just say I doubt his views and opinions deep down changed all that much.

You are also assuming that he didn't notice the rest of the world changing either.

And that Congress would go along with him.

And that the military would not suggest more current thinking.
 
Later that day, Flight 93 would crash into the US capital, while it was in session, killing Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd, among others. The remains of the senate convene and elect Strom Thurmond as President Pro Tempore, due to the Republicans having a majority of the survivors. However, before the House can elect a new speaker, Cheney dies of a heart attack due to the incredible stress of the day.
And thus Strom Thurmond became president on the darkest hour of American history.

StromThurmond.jpg

That would be an AWESOME TL! It would be like watching a trainwreck in slow motion :D
 
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