Nonsense. You need conviction too. By 67 Senators. It isn't happening. I know this will rile up the gullable, but it isn't happening. It's hyperbole. Democrats will have a maximum of 52 seats in the Senate if EVERYTHING goes their way. So, the democrats including Ben Nelson, Salazar, Joe Lieberman, and 15 Republican Senators are all going to vote to impeach Bush to put Pelosi in charge.
Whatever. She is going to be in charge of the house if the dims win. That is bad enough. But let's be real here.
I also liked DFU's post about a resigning Cheney having his replacement's confirmation blocked in the Senate forever, leaving a hole in the succession which would make Pelosi second-in-line. That would surely entice some whacko to go after the president, if the result is President Pelosi.
-PJ
I really believe that the Senate already has the votes to convict on any impeachment of the President and vice-president. The spineless, liberal distinguished Senators on the Republican side give only occasional, lukewarm, bitterly coerced support to the war against terrorism, often subject to severely restrictive constraints like the terrorist bill of rights and conditioned upon ruinously enormous pork-barrel kickbacks to their campaign contributors.
After the Democrats sack the House and impeach Cheney then Bush, the distinguished Senate Republicans--overwhelmingly liberal RINOs already--will cast their lots with their distinguished Democratic comrades under intense establishment-media influence. In previous biennia, a telephone call from Karl Rove or some other Republican political operative might remind these spineless but distinguished RINO Senators that their reelection depended critically upon the perception that they support Bush. A Democrat triumph and the attendant media circus will convince distinguished RINO Senators (that's most of 'em) that conservatism has passed thoroughly discredited into the dustbin of history and that their careers depend upon their embrace of liberalism.
Tell that to the ghost of Richard Nixon.