Cockeyed Optimism?

The Truffle points to what may be the triumph of hope over reality, at "Impeachment Does NOT Mean Cheney Will be President":

That anyone would even begin to think that Cheney would come out of the impeachment process uncharged and unscathed is mistaken, sorely mistaken. That one would think to impeach Bush without Cheney, and Rumsfeld and the others, is short-sighted... maybe blind. We'd get Hastert as president, but we're waiting at the door for him, too, to impeach him for his taking bribes.

Well, maybe. But there is a simpler solution to make sure that Lynne's beard doesn't get both the job and the title: