IMPEACH?? Have to get to #12 in this Line of Succession....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

For a decent person....

This is a list of the current presidential line of succession, as specified by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. § 19).

Current president: George W. Bush
Lying about WMD and illegally invading Iraq, Condoning Torture, Condoning Leaking Classified Information, Illegal Spying on US citizens, etc. etc.

1. Dick Cheney, Vice President
Lying about WMD and illegally invading Iraq, Condoning Torture, Condoning Leaking Classified Information, Illegal Spying on US citizens, etc. etc.

2. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives
In August 2005, an article published in Vanity Fair reported that FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has sworn under oath that she listened to wiretaps in which Turkish nationals boasted that Hastert had accepted bribes.<4> A Hastert spokesperson has denied any knowledge of these events even though an NSA investigation is underway.
In September 2004, billionaire currency trader George Soros filed an official complaint with the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct charging Hastert had said on radio and television that Soros received drug money. <5>
Hastert generated controversy on 1 September 2005 when he said spending Federal money to rebuild New Orleans from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina "doesn't make sense to me."<6>. Hastert went on to say that "It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed"<7>.

3. Ted Stevens, President pro tempore of the Senate
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair01272006.html
Senator Ted Stevens' Empire of Corruption
King of the Hill
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Ted Stevens doesn't exploit loopholes, he drills them.
From his aerie in the US senate, the Alaska Republican exerts his power over vast terrains of legislation and budgeting, from the logging of the Tongass National Forest to the development of the Star Wars missile defense scheme.

4. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
Lying about WBD, Failure to protect US from 9-11 attack

5. John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury
tlaw.com/washington.jsp?WebID=GL2002-0391
Likely quitting, could this be one reason?:
Sec. Snow Waffles on Estate Tax Repeal
Treasury Secretary John Snow spoke to two different groups this week. On March 28, 2006, he suggested that the White House may be willing to consider a compromise on estate tax repeal. At the Tax Executives Institute on that date, he stated, "I would hope that we'd have the chance to test the political strength of that idea and hopefully prevail, but if not, come to some second-best outcome that would also be more advantageous than where we are today."

However, by March 30, 2006, Sec. Snow was back pedaling furiously. Speaking to the Edison Electric Institute Board of Directors on that date, he held a different opinion. Sec. Snow noted, "I want to make it clear that Congress needs to pass legislation that permanently repeals the death tax, without compromise."

6. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Lying about WMD, Condoning torture, Totally failure on planning after the US invasion

7. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General
Condoning torture. spying on americans

8. Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior
Resigned
Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA) was founded by Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Grover Norquist in the 1990's. Jack Abramoff directed his tribal casinos to donate $225,000 to CREA. <1>
In a February 2002 letter to Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, John Doolittle complained that a Lousiana tribal casino had been wrongly shut down because the Bureau of Indian Affairs refused to recognize a newly elected tribal council. The subsequent new council hired Abramoff's firm after the elections. In June 2003, Doolittle wrote a letter to Norton criticizing the Bush administration's response to a tribal government dispute in Iowa. In October 2003, Doolittle appealed in a letter to Norton for quicker action for a Massachusetts tribe that was seeking federal recognition. Both the Iowa and Massachusetts tribes hired Jack Abramoff's lobbying firm, Greenberg Traurig, in that year. <2> There is a 2002 photograph of Norton with Jack Abramoff. <3>

9. Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agriculture
http://www.religioustolerance.org/burn_aw1.htm
Mike Johanns recieves religious intolerance award
ineligible: Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce (not a natural-born citizen of the U.S.)
ineligible: Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor (not a natural-born citizen of the U.S.)

10. Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/151224
In Utah, Leavitt came under criticism for opening the state’s wildlands to polluting industries and opening millions of acres of wilderness to roadbuilding and development. He also backed a massive highway project that would have destroyed wetlands and fertile farmlands along the Great Salt Lake.

11. Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Quote: The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.
Enough said…

12. Norman Mineta, Secretary of Transportation
http://www.michellemalkin.com/archives/000973.htm
Here's our best choice - Michelle Malkin wants him impeached
Impeach Mineta. The man who said this...
Kroft: Are you saying, at security screening desks, that a 70-year-old white woman from Vero Beach, Florida, would receive the same level of scrutiny as a-a-a Muslim young man from Jersey City?
Mineta: Basically, I would hope so.
...is staying in the Bush administration

13. Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy

14. Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education

15. Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

[Skink]

1. One impeachment 10 indictments.

[porphyrian]

2. Dominoes. - n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. yes, until you get to the only democrat appointed !

[kay1864]

4. I don't know much about Hastert...

I'll admit, but compared to the others on this list he doesn't look so bad. The first two charges are kinda trivial (Turkish nationals boasted of bribes? That's not proof of anything. Hastert said something about bad about Soros on the radio? Pfeh.) The third one is amazingly callous, but hey, he's a Repuke, whaddya expect?

Compared with Cheney :scared: :scared:, Ted Stevens :scared:, or Condi Rice, Hastert looks like the lesser of evils. (yeah, grammar, I know...)

[Hand]

6. They forgot to mention...

Hastert is Tom Delay's biyotch, pure and simple. Always has been, always will be. :scared:

[kay1864]

8. Didn't know that!

However, as I just realized (and posted in another thread)...

Since impeachment almost certainly will not happen until we win the House in November (and take power in Jan 2007), the succession will be

Current president: George W. Bush

1. Dick Cheney, Vice President

2. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives

Woo-hoo! So fuck Hastert AND the rest of the list.

[maddiejoan]

5. Get control of the House and Senate

Then we'll have President Pelosi

[IChing]

7. Get the house and we can get *ush and shotgun in your face Cheney

That is why 2006 is all or nothing for me.