So, if * was impeached and convicted....

[funflower]

Cheney would become president?

If Bush were convicted and removed first, then Cheney would be in a position to choose his successor....

Or, if Bush and Cheney were somehow simultaneously impeached and convicted, it would be Hastert?


:wow:

[snowbear]

1. And if Hastert couldn't do it..

Doesn't it go to the Senior Republican Senator?



89 year old Ted Stevens??? :puke:

[lenidog]

6. Yes it does then to Condi

through to the end which is Jim Nicholson who is Veteran Affairs at the bottom of the list. Chao who is labor and Gutierrez who is commerce are ineligble to take the presidency because they were not born in the US.

[BlueIris]

18. Nice how Condi's move to state benefits the hard-core neo-cons

in the event that the line of succession needs to be invoked, ja? For some odd reasons, that's never occurred to me before.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. Ewww, Larissa........

Our resident "mad" man.

[lenidog]

2. That is correct

Check the link for the current line of succession

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession

[funflower]

3. OMG. Maybe we'd better forget about the impeachment idea and do

this the old-fashioned way (in 2006 and 2008).

[Occulus]

5. Can we impeach the whole administration, then?

I don't want a President Cheney.

[lenidog]

7. You could get Cheney and Bush and maybe even Condi

but you couldn't get them all so we would still be stuck with a Republican.

[tritsofme]

4. In the unlikely scenario that the shit actually hits the fan.

We would probably see the same thing that happened with Nixon.

Cheney would resign, Bush appoints a clean VP, maybe a McCain or a Hagel, then Bush is forced to resign.

I see this as about as likely as pigs flying, but if it came down to it, there would never be an impeachment, let alone impending conviction.

[lenidog]

8. I have to agree with you

there would never be an impeachment.

[funflower]

9. Given this revelation (to me anyway), I'm not sure I'd want one.

[lenidog]

10. It does present a problem because no matter where we turn we

are still screwed.

[funflower]

11. The best thing about *

is that he's not one of those other people!

[funflower]

16. Why would Bush appoint a "clean" VP?

Seems to me he'd want someone who'd cover his backside (and discourage his opponents from trying to impeach him).

[aquart]

12. Reason enough to go very cautiously indeed.

[bluestateguy]

13. This is all just talk

A lot of people here are getting their hopes up for something that will just never happen. Wehether or not he committed impeachable offenses is not relevant. This Congress will just never allow that process to take place. Even with a Democratic Congress, there would likely be too many Vichy Democrats to make impeachment a reality. Fight the battles that are winnable.

[Journeyman]

15. And not just the winnable ones, but the battles of *today*. . .

rather than imagined and hoped for battles in some distant, speculative future.

[longship]

14. No, no, no, no, no!

In order to impeach CuckooBananas and his attack dog there will have to be a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. So when Bush and Cheney are impeached and removed from office the new President of the United States will be Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

[funflower]

17. Oh, yeah....

:think: