>I can't see the Democrats wanting to impeach Cheney and give the
>Republicans the chance to appoint someone like Fred Thompson as VP
>in order to position him for next year's election.
Since the Dumbocrats control congress, they could reject any Repugnican appointment, leaving their own Pelosi next in the line of succession, and go on to impeach Ubu. Of course nothing like this aint gonna happen, since the Repugnicans can block conviction just like the Dumbocrats can block appointment.
Impeachment would be a political act involving full-time media-dominating exposure of all the crimes of Ubu & co. starting with their criminal nonfeasance (to use the most generous possible characterization) on and around 11 September 2001. Because the Dumbocrats were and are complicit in all those crimes, it just aint gonna happen.
>Cheney is a DP asset - as is Bush.
Not least because they expect to inherit and administer a functioning police state while getting great credit among liberals by sanding down some of its roughest edges.
Shane Mage
"One can never agree, in any kind of war, with events that take the lives of innocent civilians. Nobody could justify the attacks of the German Air Force on British cities during World War II, nor the thousands of bombers that systematically destroyed German cities in the decisive moments of the war, nor the two atomic bombs which the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an act of pure terrorism against old people, women and children." (Fidel Castro)