If the Senate requested Bush and Cheney step down, who would...?

[kentuck]

...they recommend from the Senate to take over? Which Republican would they choose to replace Bush and Cheney? John McCain? Doubtful? George Allen? Maybe? Who could better represent this country from the Republican Party? Almost any would be better than Bush and Cheney, with the possible exceptions of Senators Sessions of Alabama and Senator Hatch of Utah...

[karynnj]

1. Dennis Haskett, Speaker of the house per line of succession

[Tab]

2. Let me check...

Ah yes, Satan would be up next.

[shoelace414]

3. the senate can do all the requesting they want

we still do have seperation of powers.

[WI_DEM]

4. Hassert would be next in line since he is the Speaker of the House

after that I think it's the Senate pro-tem but not sure.

[Voltaire99]

5. Heh, bit optimistic, aren't you? :-)

What makes you think the war party has any intention of loosening its grip?

In any case, there are plenty of monsters to take their places; Bushism is not Bush or even Cheney.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. Firstly, they wouldn't.

Secondly, unless Cheney resigns first, it'd go directly to Hastert.

Thirdly, if Cheney DOES resign first, Bush would get to nominate a VP that would be up for confirmation by the Senate.

[bowens43]

7. That's not how it works.

There is a line of succession.

* The Vice President Richard Cheney
* Speaker of the House John 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 (Nortons gone isn't she?)
* Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns
* Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez2
* Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
* 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 Security Michael Chertoff

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Isn't Hastert, the other criminal, next in line? Hastert, if he's not in

jail for his participation in the Abramoff case. Are there any non-criminal repukes? I don't think so.

[BonnieJW]

9. It's going to be a rerun of Nixon

The Dems will take back Congress in 06. All the investigations will begin and Cheney will resign. A new VP will be appointed by * and then * will resign before he can be impeached. The new VP will be appointed president and will pardon *, insuring he loses the next election. Been there, done that.