Wednesday, November 09, 2005

The impeachment fantasy

Here is a depressing thought. Even if the House and Senate were somehow moved to impeach and convict, here is the order of succession:

 

Vice President Dick Cheney

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert

President pro tempore of the Senate Ted Stevens

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Secretary of the Treasury John Snow

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton

Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns

Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez (ineligible, born in Cuba)

Secretary of Labor (ineligible, Elaine Chao not native born)

Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson

Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff

1 comment:

drmagoo said...

For crying out loud. There's not one person on that list that's even remotely acceptable. The plus, I would think, for an impeachment would be that the White House would be so tainted (that the president got removed by a congress in which his party held the majority) that they'd never get anything done. Cheney is viewed more negatively than Bush, so he wouldn't be able to get anything done, either.