So long as Hastert is Speaker, there’ll be no Impeachment, and if he were to take the Presidency, it wouldn’t be worth it. But…
The Speaker of the House serves at the sufferance of a majority of the House, not the majority Party.
House Dems make an offer to Iowa Rep. Jim Leach: Bring in 14 more of your Republican colleagues, we’ll vote for you as Speaker, and split Committee chairs, governing as a coalition.
Then Impeach Cheney and Bush, with another of the “GOP in exile” group taking the Speaker slot. (With Leach leaving the House for the Presidency, it’d take one more House Republican at this point.)
