Frankly, I don't see what else you can call this proposal by Rochelle Riley.

How long would it take to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney? A day?

It could be the day after impeachment hearings ended in the conviction of President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors. It would take only one courageous member of the House of Representatives to propose an article of impeachment against Cheney. Then it would take a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate to send Cheney packing -- almost as quickly as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

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I've called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush twice before and had correspondents tell me that their greater fear was a President Cheney. Get rid of them both for "high crimes and misdemeanors" against the American people. The best definition of that came from our own President Gerald Ford in 1970: "An impeachable offense is whatever the majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at any given moment."

When the GOP impeached and sought to remove a sitting president, Bill Clinton, for undeniable violations of the law (to which he later admitted and accepted punishment), we were accused of trying to "overturn the results of an election" despite the fact that the new president would have been Al Gore, the elected vice president who had been Clinton's running mate. No election would have been overturned -- and such a course of action would have undoubtedly led to a landslide victory by President Al Gore in 2000 -- and his likely reelection in 2004.

What Ms. Riley proposes here is the removal of a president and vice president over policy differences and interpretations of the data from our nation's intelligence agencies -- in order to place the government into the hands of a different party, and a new president who had never stood for national office nor been subject to the sort of review that Ms. Riley's new-found hero, President Ford, faced when he assumed the vice presidency under trying circumstances in 1973.

Indeed, her proposal is nothing short of a coup d'etat by the DemocratICK Party -- a group which is is no more loyal to the United States and its Constitution than it was 145 years ago.

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