--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> wrote: > > > > On Jan 24, 2007, at 1:36 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:50 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > >> > > >>> --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > > >>> <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Bush's SOTU was a bunch of hokum. We need to skewer his > > >>>>> regime and impeach them YESTERDAY! > > >>>> > > >>>> Why go to all that expense and time, just to have a few months > > >>>> with Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney at the helm? How will that > > >>>> improve things? > > >>> > > >>> A good point. You'd have to impeach them both, something > > >>> that may or may not be allowed by the Constitution to > > >>> happen simultaneously. > > >> > > >> Or make things so hot they have no choice but to resign, > > >> ala Agnew and Nixon. Cheney going first would be a great > > >> start. > > > > > > The SOTU has sort of overshadowed it, but recent > > > news from the Scooter Libby trial suggests that > > > Cheney may be in VERY big trouble over the Plame > > > incident, so that part of your scenario isn't so > > > far-fetched. > > > > Yeah, that's the feeling I've gotten from several of the headlines I've > > seen. > > > > > > It's unlikely Bush would ever resign, but with > > > Cheney out of the way, there'd be one less obstacle > > > to proceeding with impeachment. > > > > Exactly. Would be interesting to see, though, if it ever came to that > > who would be Cheney's replacement. I would guess someone who the far > > right (at least in their imaginations) would consider politically > > unassailable--maybe Rice, Powell or McCain. > > In a Democratically controlled congress, if impeachment of Cheney AND Bush was > inevitable, the Democrats would never confirm a Republican for VP before Bush was > impeached. That would make Pelosi the next president.
Lawson, we're talking about Cheney resigning *before* Bush is impeached.
