Who Can Really Say?

And you thought Florida was bad

Along the lines of my worst case scenario post earlier this month, Eugene Volokh supposes:

Say Kerry is elected, but on Jan. 20, the Inauguration gets bombed, and Kerry and Edwards are both killed. Even if the Speaker of the House or the President Pro Tem of the Senate step aside (perhaps because they're of the opposite party, and conclude they have no mandate to govern), the rest of the chain of succession consists entirely of Cabinet secretaries -- who are all still holdovers from the old Administration.

There's a political novel in here, no? Where's Allen Drury when you need him?

And if you're interested, Volokh has many posts today on whether JibJab's "This Land is Your Land" takeoff violates the Guthrie copyright to the song. Just scroll around, you can't miss them.