Maybe this is why Pelosi says...

[ambitious_wench]

Maybe this is why Pelosi says that impeachment is "off the table": If Bush is impeached, Cheney would get the job. If Cheney is impeached, either at the same time, or later, Pelosi herself would get the job.

I can hear the wingnuts screaming abuse of power, can't you?

Just sayin'.

So, how do we get Pelosi out of the picture? Would she recuse herself from impeachment proceedings? Doesn't she, as speaker of the house, have to initiate the process?

I'll admit to ignorance here, folks. Does it have to be Congress that impeaches? Sure as hell, the justice department can't do it, leaving aside jurisdiction issues; the Bush regime has it sewn up.

Removing an incumbent prez and VeePee at the same time leaves a hell of a vacuum, and how right is it that the folks who implemented impeachment should be the ones to assume power? Is there anything in place to limit the power? Imagine a Republican-held congress, using their power to remove a Democrat president for false reasons; taking partisan control of the entire country.

Very, very weird situation.

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Cheney gets to preside over his own impeachment hearings, which might affect the outcome some.

It seems to me that there was the chance of a similar situation with Nixon and Agnew. Once Agnew resigned, if Nixon went before a new VP was selected, the new President would have been Carl Albert (D-Oklahoma).

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Indeed. IIRC, Albert declared that if this should happen, he would consider himself an acting president only, and resign from the office as soon as a Republican VP had been confirmed.