Reply #51: We the People defined the succession.

[pat_k]

If. . .

1. the Congressional "leadership" gets serious about impeachment,


2. the threat of impeachment does not prompt bush and cheney to resign in order to keep the WH in Republican hands and to spare Republican Senators from being forced to vote against impeachment (defending torture and the pariah in chief) or voting for it (handing WH to Democrats), and


3. more than 16 Republican Senators, who are already scrambling over each other to "distance themselves," vote to remove the pariah in chief, then. . .

Speaker Pelosi will be carrying out the will of the people when she takes the presidential oath.

Of course, when Congress gets serious about impeaching bush and cheney, they are more likely be forced by their own Party to resign than be removed. If they refuse to resign, and fewer than 16 Republicans vote to remove the pariah in chief (and thus vote to confirm that American is a war criminal nation that illegally spies on its own citizens), then at least the members of Congress who voted for impeachment and removal will be breaking teh bonds of complicity. They will be on the right side of history.

Just as the members of Congress who cite their vote against the Authorization to Use Military Force at every opportunity, those who fight to impeach and remove will be able to point to that act of moral courage as they stand tall and seek the support of Americans who believe in a True America.