Cheney knows that the story about a “Democratic sweep” is utter nonsense.

[LaPera]

Thom Hartmann is discussing this and making a great case for this article. No matter how you see it...This IS an extremely interesting concept? Insight?

"Information Clearing House" -- -- When Dick Cheney woke up on Wednesday morning, his entire world had changed. The House and Senate was in control of the Democrats, Bush Senior’s buddy Robert Gates had taken over at the Pentagon, and his most-trusted ally, Don Rumsfeld, had been thrown overboard.

Cheney knows that the story about a “Democratic sweep” is utter nonsense. He knows who operates the voting machines and how to get the results he wants. The normal procedures for rigging the election were simply put on hold.

He also knows that the Justice Dept had sent out over 80 attorneys to various parts of the country where the Republicans anticipated legal challenges after the elections, but there were no legal challenges. Someone decided that there would be no fight at all, even in the close senatorial races where recounts might have made a difference.

Why?

Is anyone gullible enough to believe that Republican big-wigs have given up cheating as a vital part of their strategy for winning elections?

I doubt it.

Cheney knows why there were no challenges; just like he knows why Rumsfeld was thrown to the wolves AFTER the elections rather than before when it might’ve hurt the Democrat’s chances for victory.

Cheney was betrayed and his plans for one-party rule have been intentionally subverted. Even his seat next to the throne has been jettisoned to make room for Papa Bush’s friend and CIA-alum, Robert Gates.

So, what does it all mean?

Well, as many of the political wags are finally admitting, the adults are stepping in and taking back their government. The establishment “old school” Republicans and country club plutocrats put-together a plan to sabotage the Cheney administration and put an end to the Iraq debacle. The scheme first became apparent when Bob Woodward, the establishment’s number one scribe, released his book “State of Denial”. That was followed by the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), Lancet’s Iraqi casualty report, the Mark Foley page fiasco, and a steady barrage of ethics and corruption scandals.

The Democrats had nothing to do with the ferocious media-blitzkrieg which pummeled the Bush team day-in and day-out. It was all the handiwork of big-money Republicans who lost their place at the policy-table when Cheney and Rummy decided they would run the whole shebang by themselves.

The only way they could be certain of undermining the Sec-Def and the Veep’s powers was by attacking their political base and destroying the “rubber stamp” congress. And, that is precisely what they did. It's a classic case of the parent killing its own offspring or, as Dostoyevsky said, “One reptile devouring the other.”

The election simply proves that one should not expect to take the country away from the people who really own it.

It’s theirs, and the political parties are merely the temporary security guards who are paid to watch over their prized possession.

Betrayal

What’s interesting in this case, is that Cheney was betrayed by Bush. It was Bush who fed Rummy to the crocodiles and replaced him with Gates, and it was Bush who broke his oath of loyalty to people who put him in office.

Cheney doesn’t like to be betrayed, in fact, Cheney hates to be betrayed. Loyalty is the only virtue among thieves, and Bush has violated that basic bond. That probably means big trouble for George W. Bush in the future.

Understandably, the country is breathing a sigh of relief after the midterm elections, but it may be a bit premature. Cheney may be down, but he’s not out. And, unfortunately, nothing has really changed. Cheney hasn’t abandoned his plan for global domination and he still has plenty of agents lurking in the shadows who will carry out his agenda. His problem now is how to get back “in the game” and settle scores with the people who screwed him over.

Ironically, his biggest obstacle is George Bush, the man who knifed him in the back and put the brakes on the global crusade. Bush is now under the influence his father’s chief-advisors who are determined to get the troops out of Iraq, forestall any attack on Iran, and (probably) undermine the powers of the unitary executive.

So, how far will Cheney go to remove the obstacles for realizing his dark vision? Would he be willing to incite a war with Iran to restore himself to power?

William S. Lind, Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation, assures us in his latest article “Iraq Disaster Warning” that “something big’” will happen “between Nov 7 congressional election and Christmas. That could be the long-planned attack on Iran”.

(More)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15582.htm

[Karenca]

1. k and r. .n/t

[xxqqqzme]

2. and I thought I was being

paranoid again when pondering rummy's eviction. I ended up w/ some scary, dark scenarios.

[jokerman93]

3. This article says it

As more facts come in about the shift of power in Washington, this analysis appears to fit the those facts pretty well. I am, and have been, cautiously optimistic since shortly before the election, but I don't think we're out of the danger zone by any means. There may still be some serious setbacks on the horizon. We really do need to keep our eyes open and our "volume" set to 10.

There's a school of thought out there. I don't know whether to call it realistic or supremely cynical, but basically it frames "Democracy" as just another opiate for the people; that elections are held as a periodic ritual to give people the illusion of participation while the power brokers continue to jockey for advantage among themselves by shifting the field of play to their advantage whenever possible.

Unfortunately these last years as my "political" eyes have been opened, I've tended more and more toward that view. That doesn't mean though, that I think the principles of our Constitution are a sham. I don't. I really do think they're worth fighting for, and I'm beginning to suspect the real clash of political "realities" is just beginning in America.

Thanks for this post. Good read.

J
K&R

[gordianot]

8. Try the Hegelian dialect

Create "disorder" so the people will demand "order". To establish order you must give up freedom and self determination. Out of "chaos" comes "order" of a civil society. Preferably that "civil society" thinks of itself as a democracy even if it is not in any way a participatory democracy.

Bush represents Communitarian's "Civil Society thinking" (not that George W. thought up any of this) in his programmed responses. Unfortunately George and the Neo-Con sponsors blew it, now the adults had to come in and take over. Maybe plans are on hold the result of creating too much chaos, after allowing the idiot son to run up another lifelong failure. I wonder if it was possible that Poppy allowed the CIA behavioral engineers loose on junior when he was younger?

[jokerman93]

13. Scary thought

If we really are in the throws of an engineered dialectic, then for sure this particular chaos was unplanned for. So now we get introduced to all those unpredictable variables cascading in from that far more complex system outside their manufactured political "realities". Chaos theory trumps Hegelian dialectic -- more than the Bush syndicate or the Neocons could ever anticipate. Mmm. There's something here about..."the best laid plans of mice and men"??? :think:

"I wonder if it was possible that Poppy allowed the CIA behavioral engineers loose on junior when he was younger?"
LOL. That WOULD explain a lot, wouldn't it?
:toast:
J

[Nite Owl]

4. Sort of puts this

"Well, as many of the political wags are finally admitting, the adults are stepping in and taking back their government. The establishment “old school” Republicans and country club plutocrats put-together a plan to sabotage the Cheney administration and put an end to the Iraq debacle. The scheme first became apparent when Bob Woodward, the establishment’s number one scribe, released his book “State of Denial”. That was followed by the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), Lancet’s Iraqi casualty report, the Mark Foley page fiasco, and a steady barrage of ethics and corruption scandals.

The Democrats had nothing to do with the ferocious media-blitzkrieg which pummeled the Bush team day-in and day-out. It was all the handiwork of big-money Republicans who lost their place at the policy-table when Cheney and Rummy decided they would run the whole shebang by themselves."


in perspective doesn't it?

[The Count]

5. I agree in part. The media attention to Folley & comp. Not absence of fraud.

There was fraud (62 seats should have been picked up according to exit polls).

[trof]

6. Disagree.

John Nance Garner was one of the vice-presidents who served under FDR.
Garner is most noted for saying the vice presidency wasn't worth "a warm bucket of spit," although reporters allegedly changed the spelling of the last word for print.

A former Speaker of the House he once stated taking the vice presidency was "the worst damn fool mistake I ever made".
http://www.usatrivia.com/vpbigarn.html

Without the support and acquiescence of the president, the veep has no power.
It appears that Bush** has bailed on Cheney too.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

7. excellent article nt

[GreenTea]

14. I agree! n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. I say we keep our teeth sharpened in case a Dem decides to pick

up Bush's shadow government's ball and runs for Iran.

[Kolesar]

10. too convoluted for me

The establishment “old school” Republicans and country club plutocrats put-together a plan to sabotage the Cheney administration and put an end to the Iraq debacle.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Sorry.

The premise is the Bush the Preppy sabotaged the GOP chances in the elections (such as they were) in order to take Cheney down a peg.

No sale.

[central scrutinizer]

12. This is as convoluted as the machinations on Deadwood

Swearingen would be proud.

[Vincardog]

15. This is just another attempt top deny that the VOTERS run the country.

The first order of the new DEMOCRATIC Congress should be
1) Public financing of elections along with Paper ballots and random, audits of elections.
2) Rescind the myth of Corporate Person hood.
3) Begin a public policy of Full Employment at a Living Wage in the USA.
4) Return Respect to the environment.
INVESTIGATE INDICT AND IMPRISON all those who looted the country in the last few decades.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

16. This is a perfect example...

...of why politics and methamphetamines should not be mixed.

[mirandapriestly]

17. I felt as though the win was "allowed" .

We know they can and we know they would do it, so why didn't they? Rove was planning on his task force group showing why the polls and the results were different. Also, why was the corp media so cooperative in bringing out all the scandals? But, the article doesn't quite say how one faction could control the voting machinery over Rove, et al...that's what confuses me.

[Pryderi]

18. If Dems were smart, they'd impeach Cheney. If that happened, Bush

would actually look better. Bush could screw Cheney, especially since Scooter is already indicted.

Don't forget, Armitage got his info about Plame from Cheney's office.

Impeach Cheney, leave Bush.

[groovedaddy]

19. NWO on the move!

Hey, it's the New World Order V. the Neo-Cons, all rolled into one administration. Such a deal!
The DLC is siding with the NWO, what with globalization and all. It's hard to tell who has their
hands on which strings and which levers...but it always has been hard for "We, the People" to keep
our attention on the behind the scenes machinations. Modern media has made it more difficult (who
has their hands on those "strings and levers?"), lending an appearance of normality to the most
disgusting political trends. It is on this pillow that the "middle" sleeps at night. Will we
wake to find it was all just a bad dream?

[sandnsea]

20. Except it's not true

An employee at the Human Rights Campaign outed Foley. Nancy Pelosi orchestrated the social security attack that started the downward slide, as well as Murtha and the Iraq war attack. The corruption scandals and CIA leaks have been coming out for a long time. You might say somebody turned on the media spigot, but the spigot has been on in regards to attacks on targeted Democrats too.

Bush just said he wants more troops in Iraq. Doesn't sound like the plutocrats are in control to me.