How Bush Could Be Impeached

It would take real bipartisanship, and compromises on both sides. And I'm not all that
sure I could stomach this outcome. But sometimes you have to put your country ahead
of your personal politics to get the necessary job done.

Situation: Bush-Cheney has become politically unsustainable, and the Republicans by this
point would love to be able to unburden themselves of these two strange and almost
universally despised men. Bush-Cheney are now the only remaining obstruction left to
our escaping the disaster in Iraq, and their stubborn insistence on "staying the course" has
made their removal essential.

Cheney: Dick Cheney would have to be convinced to quit his job. Citing health, grandpa
duties, whatever, he goes. A meeting or two would take place where his criminal exposure
is carefully laid out to him, and what the legal consequences would be should he not remove
himself from the office. Most likely he would insist that Bush pardon him. Getting Cheney to
this point would be something the Republicans themselves would have to do. Their part of
the bargain.

The difficult compromise: In order to remove Bush from office the Democrats would have
to agree to allow Rudolph Giuliani to take Cheney's place. This would be attractive to the
GOP because besides ridding itself of it's biggest problem, it would also install one of
its brightest stars in power while holding on to the Presidency.

Impeachment: Having agreed to a succession of power in a bipartisan way, the Democrats
along with a significant portion of the Republican members of Congress could then proceed
to impeach George W. Bush.

Giuliani becomes the new Gerald Ford: Ford served two purposes, he ran out the remaining
time of a disgraced administration, and he allowed the final act of our military debacle to
take place in Vietnam. The years of suffering military casualties in order to maintain an
illusion of Nixonian presidential infallibility were over, and the nation moved on. His would
b e a very difficult year or so in office, and he could very well emerge as damaged goods.

Now I know this isn't all that palatable a scenario for most here, and like I said I am not
happy about it either. But to me the most important thing is to remove these dangerous
and incompetent people from the White House. And given the ratio of Democrats to
Republicans in Congress, it will take a bipartisan effort to get the deed done.

Can you think of another way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Sections_three_and_four:_Presidential_disability

The 25th amendment. Not Rudi, Jeffords.

I don't think they would go for Giuliani but never mind that. Impeachment would have to be imminent and Cheney would be thoroughly implicated by that time anyway. It is not something you can plan for but I am sure it will occur to a Repablican Party struggling for survival. I will go with whatever scenario makes pardons impractical.