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I was going to write this big screed as I usually do, but decided to do this instead:
The Republican Party knows that Bush has to go if they want any chance of capturing the White House in 2012. (I think 2008 is a lost cause for them.) If Bush stays in office until the end of his term, we're looking at Democrats for at least the next three two-term administrations.
They also know Cheney has to go. More to the point, they know he has to go first.
They'll get rid of Cheney in one of two ways: they'll either make him resign for reasons of ill health, which was what the Soviets called it when they shot their troublesome apparatchiks, or they'll have him go hunting with Harry Whittington and goad Harry about how Cheney just shot him in the face for no good reason and then laughed in it until Whittington turns around and lets Cheney have it right in his scowling mug...of course, Mr. Whittington won't quite remember that they were hunting polar bears until after he pulls the trigger.
Either way, Vice President Cheney will no longer be VP, and they'll need someone to replace him--someone who meets the two most important criteria, which are the ability to be president of the United States and the inability to run in 2008. Think of all the Republicans who might want to be president, like Condi, Catkiller, Jeb, McCain, Kathy Harris, Ken Blackwell and the like. None of them would take a two-year presidency.
Right now y'all are scratching your heads: if someone takes over for Shrub, couldn't he or she serve for 10 years? The Constitution says so. Reality says otherwise. If someone goes in there and does the things the country needs, like closing the war down, resetting the tax structure to December 2000 levels, putting the Fairness Doctrine, Habeas Corpus, the Kyoto Protocols, membership in the International Criminal Court and all the other things Bush pulled us out of...the large money, fundies and freepers who keep the GOP alive will stay home on Election Day 2008. If he DOESN'T do any of those things, if he tries to stay the course Bush set, the other ninety percent of the country will rise up, and nothing will keep a Democrat from being elected.
BUT! If the GOP picks someone who has no political future to do all the dirty work they know needs to be done, they can get someone who will promise middle-class tax cuts, who will promise "family values," who will run a generic GOP campaign and possibly even get elected.
The only person in America who meets the requirements, who has no political future and who has the credentials to be president right now, is George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush the Elder has a ton of baggage of his own, but then again so do most of the Repukes. I think he's the only one they can RELY on to fix his rotten kid's damage.
The post-Cheney scenario: They first get Bush peré installed as VP. Junior then steps down and is handed over to the US Marshals Service. The 43 Administration receives total blame for everything bad that happened since 2001. Everyone except Junior, who will be executed, receives life without parole. Bush 44 steps up to the plate and performs some needed reforms. I don't expect the Fairness Doctrine to be reinstated, but I do expect the ICC to be reapproved and some of our worst war criminals to be renditioned to The Hague.
I don't WANT GHWB to be president again. Right now, I don't think the Republican Party has much of a choice.
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