Reply #8: KO is referring to Spiro Agnew in his teaser [View All]

[Jack Rabbit]

However, Spiro shouldn't be alone among Vice Presidents on the list. Schuyler Colfax, Grant's first veep, was quite a piece of work.

Since the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, it was up to them to impeach Colfax. However, they bent over backward and came up with one of the 25 top lame excuses for political gutlessness in American history: Colfax had committed his crimes, mostly excepting bribes in the form of stock from the railroads, while speaker of the house and therefore they could not impeach him because he had done nothing wrong while vice president. It's still a better excuse than the one given for not impeaching Bush or Cheney.

President Grant dropped Colfax from the ticket when he ran for re-election in 1872.

Also, expect some members of President Harding's Ohio gang in tonight's list. Ed Meese, Reagan's Attorney General who had to recuse himself from an unusually high percentage of federal cases, might get a shout out. He certainly deserves a dishonorable mention.