Marlowecan said,
January 24, 2007 at 6:04 am
In your link you said: "Although a vice president technically serves at the pleasure of the president…"
No. The Vice-Presidency is a constitutional office - voted into office at the same time as the president - and, unlike Cabinet members, does not serve at the pleasure of the president. A president can, of course, drop his running mate from the ticket in a re-election as FDR did to put Truman on the ticket. However, there is no way Bush could remove Cheney from office if Cheney did not want to go. The American people put him in there, not Bush. Impeachment is the only other option.
Which prompted this response from the original author:
shaun said,
January 24, 2007 at 7:43 am
Marlowecan:
That’s why I used the word "technically" in saying that the veep serves at the pleasure of the prez.
All I could think of was a line from The Princess Bride: "I do not think it means what you think it means."
Inconceivable.
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