Dumb question: Can Bush FIRE Cheney? [View All]

If all the palace intrigue rumors are true, more realistic voices are being heard in the White House and actually acted on, but Cheney is trying to work at cross purposes.

Can Bush fire him? I don't mean emotionally or perhaps even politically, but constitutionally.

Personally, I would rather see both of them impeached and removed, but firing Cheney would probably move the Iran War off the table for the rest of the Bush administration, and give Bush a scapegoat to blame for all of his epic foreign policy disasters.

It would also let Bush limp to the end of his term, which he would like, and leave Bush in place as a punching bag, which Democrats in Congress seem to want.