If/when Bu$h gets impeached, who takes over?

[pstans]

If the Downing Street Memo or Election Fraud end up taking Bu$h down and he gets impeached, does Cheney and Co. go with him? Who would become President?

If Bu$h goes down for Election fraud and Kerry was found to have won the election, does Kerry take over?

If Cheney would take over, isn't that worse than having Bu$h being their puppet?

[dave502d]

1. Cheney would take over as a lame duck. n/t

[LifeDuringWartime]

2. Bill Frist next in line

:scared:

[Peregrine]

26. No, Frist is not in the line of succession

VP
Speaker of the House
President Pro-Temp of the Senate (which I think is Stevens R-AK)

[El Supremo]

10. No, he would be eligible for reelection.

You just can't be elected more than twice.

[El Supremo]

3. The order of Presidential Succession

* The Vice President Richard Cheney
* Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
* President pro tempore of the Senate1 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 Gutierrez2
* Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao3
* Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt
* Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
* Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshio Mineta
* Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman
* Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
* Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson
* Secretary of Homeland Security4 Michael Chertoff

We are fucked no matter what.

[shraby]

7. The lies were repeated over and over

by the whole administration. They should all be impeached over it. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condi and right on down the line to all who sold the war on lies.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

24. Perhaps they could do time on the streets of Baghdad... it's only

fitting that they experience the results of their sick and twisted machinations.

[Just Me]

15. No. That is in the event he is assassinated.

Moreover, the whole house, not just the facade, will be brought down.

What, ya' think ONLY the neoCON corporacrats learned something from the 70's?

C'mon!!! Don't give these corrupt mo-fos too much credit. They were taken down before, they will be taken down, again, IN SPITE of their calculative planning to cover their greedy, wrinkled behinds.

Have some faith or get outta' the way!!!

[yodermon]

35. What if they all resigned en masse?

I'm only half joking.

Constitutionally, what would happen? Congress elects a new president? Congress calls for emergency elections?

[Kingofalldems]

4. No way it'll happen

repubs and some Dems would have to impeach bush for something they voted for and risk losing the next election.

[walldude]

12. Lol.. yeah in other words they would need

to grow a freakin spine. I sit here daily and wonder how many dead people is enough. how many lost jobs, how much debt, how far divided does this country have to get before someone steps up to the plate.

[lonestarnot]

23. Aren't we just totally fucked! Cry'n ass shame!

[MichiDem]

5. Good point

and I think the Repubs never wanted to oust Clinton. They didn't want to give Gore a leg up in the next election.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Presidential succession

* The Vice President Richard Cheney
* Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
* President pro tempore of the Senate1 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 Gutierrez2
* Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao3
* Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt
* Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
* Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshio Mineta
* Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman
* Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
* Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson
* Secretary of Homeland Security4 Michael Chertoff

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101032.html

Thislist looks to be bit outdated as to the slot holders, but its still pretty damned scary.

As to Kerry just getting it ... won't happen/can't happen.

[Independent_Liberal]

27. I'd say impeach every goddamn one of them!

You heard me.

Impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Rice, etc. The whole lot!

Impeach and remove the entire executive branch if you have to!

We will find somebody decent down the line who can take over. We have to!

[Dying Eagle]

8. I think if Bush went down Cheney would too

Spiro Agnew went down with Nixon. I think if everything came to light Cheney would be impeached as well.

There is no constitutional way for Kerry to take over. Bush was sworn in as President. That makes it final.

[LightningFlash]

16. They'd just run another mock election, like 2000...

And try to install Bill Frist I know this now from experience. The voting machines must be stopped and Jack Abramoff sentenced to prison!!

[acmejack]

21. Spiro went down for unrelated crimes...

"Agnew resigned after pleading nolo contendere (no contest) to a criminal charge of tax evasion, part of a scheme where he allegedly accepted $29,500 in bribes during his tenure as governor of Maryland."

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/S/Sp/Spiro_Agnew.htm

[Dying Eagle]

29. True

Let I doubt this would have came to light without a sharp focus on the Nixon Administration.

[Stinky The Clown]

37. The Natterer to the Nabobs Nipped Nixon

Spiro was gone before Nixon, not as a resultof Nixon.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. If they impeach chimp, cheney will go down too.

frist would be the lamest of lame ducks. If Iraq gets much worse even the freepers will be inclined to call for impeachment.

[asjr]

19. If, by any chance Shrub was impeached, he would spill

the beans by saying he was just following orders. He would pull the strings from his back and flop over. Then we could go after Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Card, Rice, Myers, Negroponte, BOLTON, the media for propping up the damned regime and let's see, have I left anyone out? Oh, yes, Elaine Chao who is secretly working for China.

[Poiuyt]

11. Would there be any circumstances whereby both Bush and Cheney

be removed from office?

[Xithras]

14. No.

The Constitution makes no provision for the impeachment of the Vice President. They would have to impeach Bush, swear Cheney in, and then start impeachment proceedings over again.

[ISUGRADIA]

38. Uh, wrong about the VP there

U.S. Const. Art. II § 4

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

[LightningFlash]

13. Frist would be up for bid.....

But I'm hoping it ensnares everyone....And Cheney goes to trial and does his time, his hard jailtime for all the criminal acts.

[wurzel]

17. Bob Scheifer of CBS wondered if the Dems could impeach Dean

I'm not kidding. Had a whole section bashing Dean. But no time for the global warming edit story. Guess the GOP got the anchor it wanted.

[eleny]

18. Nancy Pelosi!

Because they don't get impeached before the '06 elections and we take the majority then!!!

[pstans]

36. Good point

There might just be some hope!

[Sapphire Blue]

20. President Pelosi in 2006

The impeachment process will take a while, we'll have a Democratic controlled Congress after the 2006 election, Pelosi will be Speaker of the House, and when Bush & Cheney are impeached, Pelosi will become president.

[LightningFlash]

22. There will be no changes unless elections are fair....

Voting machines still hang in the balance, many states including CA need a VVPB and inspected source code.

[libodem]

25. Just what i was thinkin'

in another thread....My god the choices are nightmarish...I don't trust any of them...the whole administration is complicit and needs to go....we'd do better letting the... hummmm... I was going to say congress, run the country but that's stupid too.... what a quandary...we are a quandry and Iraq is a quagmire good book title, huh...The Quandry and and the Quagmire

[Tux]

31. We're doomed

Screwed all over, American Dream© about dead, and LinuxForLesbians.org isn't available anymore. :cry:

[Peregrine]

28. Actually if Bush is impeached he would still be president

Senate must convict.

[Dying Eagle]

30. We know that

Mr. Literal

:)

[LightningFlash]

32. If the Senate convicts him and brings this all out into the spotlight...

I wouldn't care if a republican was president so long as it was John McCain or someone with minimal integrity. Either way, I'd want a clean election and no more repeats of Washington or 2000.

[Triana]

33. Tricky Dick II, I guess? (n/t)

[bullimiami]

34. if bush goes it will take cheney down as well.

unless congress makes a deal of some sort.