Aw, heck, let’s just let the LLMSM summarily declare the Chicago Charlatan Emperor for Life and be done with it, shall we?

Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning.

Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks — hasn’t got the clout, or possibly even the energy, to do anything useful. His most recent contribution to resolving the fiscal crisis was lecturing representatives of the world’s most important economies on the glories of free-market capitalism.

Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn’t impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We’re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she’d defer to her party’s incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama could begin governing.

As a bonus, the Pelosi presidency would put a woman in the White House this year after all. On the downside, a few right-wing talk-show hosts might succumb to apoplexy. That would, of course, be terrible, but I’m afraid we might have to take the risk in the name of a greater good.

Oh, absolutely — and that pesky ol’ Constitution liberal fascists have been so handicapped by all these years be damned. It’s not as if they ever considered it anything more than an inconvenience anyway. Killjoy Captain Ed points out a couple of small problems with this fine idea:

And Pelosi will suddenly be able to run the executive branch? Uh, sure. Collins bases this on the fact that she has two X chromosomes and nothing else. In fact, while celebrating the idea of making a woman temporary President, she then says that Pelosi will simply do what another man will order her to do. That little bit of irony somehow escapes Collins, along with common sense and procedural issues.

More importantly, no one voted for Pelosi to be president. The succession act Collins references exists to ensure continuity in case of disaster, not on the whim of a constipated New York Times columnist whose need for instant gratification apparently outweighs the rest of her cerebral processes.

Voted, schmoted. No Obamabot worth his all-natural sea-salt would ever consider voting to be anything but an easily-manipulable means to the paramount end of installing the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth — to be undermined, disregarded, or otherwise invalidated whenever their grand designs look like being thwarted by something so plebeian and unenlightened as an actual honest election.

And: cerebral processes? Collins clearly has none, beyond those necessary to sustain whatever she thinks of as “life,” and those that keep her thighs moist and tingling every time Dear Leader opens his lying yap for another vapid, meaningless speech. But it’s kinda reassuring to see another liberal “journalist’s” absolute disdain for the American system of government put down in black and white yet again, I’ll say that much. Sorta lets us know that no matter how much Change! we have rammed down our throats by our betters, some things will always be immutable.