Can a Vice President be fired?
sandrakae
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Sat Nov-11-06 11:19 PM
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Can a Vice President be fired?
How would you seriously go about getting rid of a vice president? Can they be fired? Is the only hope that they resign on their own? Can congress do something?
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Sat Nov-11-06 11:20 PM
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1. no. resignation or impeachment
and neither one of those is in the offing for cheney, so get used to him being around.
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Sun Nov-12-06 01:05 AM
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10. or "shoots self in face while hunting," if the Constitution does not apply
Edited on Sun Nov-12-06 01:06 AM by struggle4progress
Cheney's looking increasingly incompetent
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Sat Nov-11-06 11:24 PM
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2. Nope. The same rules apply to the VP as to the POTUS.
During their term, they die, resign or are impeached and convicted.
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Sat Nov-11-06 11:26 PM
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3. Technically, he's an elected official in his own right
And any of 'em can be impeached. It would be ironic, however, that Cheney would have to preside over his own trial in the Senate.
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Sat Nov-11-06 11:43 PM
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4. THAT's why they have the chief Supreme Court justice preside instead
It's not the VP that presides in impeachment trials.
Fredda Weinberg
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Sun Nov-12-06 02:25 AM
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14. Ah yes, Rehnquist with his stripes
Thanks for the reminder ... it was a fitting touch to the farce.
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Sat Nov-11-06 11:55 PM
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5. If he resigns, we can't impeach his ass. If Cheney resigns "for healt
reasons" then Bush will appoint that two faced McCain, for whom we do not have grounds for impeachment. We have to get rid of both Bush and Cheney simultaneously.
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Sun Nov-12-06 12:01 AM
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6. Must resign or be impeached-convicted. He's technically elected.
Edited on Sun Nov-12-06 12:01 AM by Zynx
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Sun Nov-12-06 12:08 AM
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He resigned before Nixon. I have a feeling that was no accident - nobody would stand for him being president.
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Sun Nov-12-06 12:20 AM
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8. I thought Agnew had his own scandal before Watergate involving business deals
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Sun Nov-12-06 01:41 AM
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11. Yes, there was a scandal
I believe he was nailed for taking money in an unmarked envelope, while in his VEEP office. Still, he had to go before Nixon could be impeached, so it was awfully convenient. Not that I regret any of it.
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Sun Nov-12-06 12:32 AM
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is the only official in the executive branch that doesn't serve at the president's pleasure. However, no VP serves at the president's displeasure.
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Sun Nov-12-06 01:59 AM
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12. So when Bush said he would keep Dick and Rummy on -
that was just more grandiosity from little boots? He has no such power? Why is Cheney skulking around like a kicked dog?
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Sun Nov-12-06 08:16 AM
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If a president wants to get rid of a VP, while he can't actually "fire" him, he has other ways to pressure the VP to resign. Everything -- and that includes everything -- that Bush does is grandiosity. But that's another story!
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Sun Nov-12-06 02:02 AM
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13. It's called impeachment.
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