--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> 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. >
Yes, and there would be a VP proposed by BUsh immediately. The Democrats in Congress would block any proposed replacement until after the impeachment hearings.
