He claims that the same should be done in the case of a McCain/Palin victory, but isn’t silent about his bias. It would be, “particularly appropriate in the event of an Obama/Biden victory, since that ticket promises the most dramatic change.” The Constitution and all? Ah, screw that.

Assume that Barack Obama wins the election, as polls show is increasingly likely. The following day, Vice President Cheney should be prevailed upon to resign. Using his powers to designate a successor under the 25th Amendment, President Bush should then appoint, and Congress should confirm, Obama as vice president (just as Richard Nixon appointed Gn terald Ford vice president in 1973 when Spiro Agnew resigned). Bush himself should then resign, elevating Obama to the presidency – as Ford became president when Nixon resigned. Obama should then appoint Joe Biden as vice president.

With Congress’s confirmation of Biden, the new administration would be in place, on the job, and ready to tackle the economic crisis – in November, not January. (The electoral college’s official ratification of the election results in December would merely rubber-stamp the transition.)

How absolutely obsessed with Obama taking the White House do you have to be to think this all up and write a column about it in the Boston Globe? You’ve waited 8 years for a Democratic White House and yet can’t wait another few weeks after an election?