Harry Reid Makes A Funny

Actually, he just speaks common sense:

The degree to which the new Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill despises Vice President Dick Cheney is a big plus for President Bush. Consider why incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scrapped an idea to impeach Bush: "Two words: Dick Cheney," he says, joking that it would vault the veep into the Oval Office.

I've been saying for a while that if the President really wanted to improve his approval ratings, his best course of action would be to resign. One week of President Cheney, and Bush would be right back at 90%. Heck, I would LEAD the brigade to Crawford to beg him to come out of retirement.

The real hardcore impeachers say "get rid of Cheney too," a process that would take us, between making the case to the public through deliberative investigation, passing a resolution in the House, making a trial in the Senate, going through all of those deliberations, and finally resulting in a 2/3 majority vote, approximately up until January 25, 2009, at which point Nancy Pelosi could be President for around negative-five days. It's pointless. The system is working now as long as the Democrats make proper use of their Congressional majorities.