IRAC?

Yeah, I don't know about all of this

I don't see the Republican party eating their own, Baker or no Baker. I think a far more likely scenario is that Cheney takes a powder due to his deteriorating health. The idea of a Republican-lead impeachment doesn't square with the current fault lines that I see. Who would lead this fight? Hagel? Olympia Snowe? Not likely.

The Fitzgerald investigation did not indict Cheney because they did not have the goods. If Fitzgerald felt he had Cheney dead to rights, he would have pressed the case, 2006 election notwithstanding.