Cheney may go

[TexasLawyer]

Cheney may go, opening field for 2008
David Nason, New York correspondent
November 13, 2006

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As the dust clears on the mid-term elections, Rumsfeld is gone, the Iraq strategy is in tatters, the Democrats control both houses of Congress and the once impregnable Cheney has been left isolated and discredited.

Rumsfeld's dumping aside - a move Cheney vigorously opposed - nothing indicated the sidelining of the Vice-President more than George W. Bush's White House meeting last week with senior house Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer. Cheney was present, but when Bush spoke of the significance of the talks, he forgot to acknowledge the Vice-President's involvement.

"All three of us recognise the importance of working together to get things done," Bush told reporters. It was a slip, but a Freudian one.

If Cheney quits, Bush could appoint in his place one of the contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Previously, Mitt Romney and George Pataki, the retiring governors of Massachusetts and New York respectively, have been mentioned as possible replacements in the event of a Cheney resignation. So has George Allen, the ambitious but now defeated senator from Virginia, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20746765-2703,00.html

[MiniMe]

1. I don't know, would anybody that wants to run in 08 want to be associated with the BFEE?

[quiet.american]

4. Good point, but I'm sure McCain would be first in line. n/t

[skipos]

8. I can think of one person who would LOVE to be associated with the BFEE.

[quiet.american]

2. dupe.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Still Time To Vote

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2948899

[Ken Burch]

5. If he appointed Allen it would be as impeachment insurance.

Or extra assassination insurance. Hell, I'D TAKE A BULLET FOR DUB if Macaca were Veep.

The only way they could get the guy confirmed would be in the lame duck session. Probably won't be time.

[SoCalDem]

6. Oh My.. Vice president Macaca??

too rich:)

[ginnyinWI]

7. oh baloney, Australian news!

I think the last thing any Republican would want would be to be associated with *. I don't think the stench will have cleared away sufficiently by 2008 to give that candidate any chance at a win. At other times this conventional wisdom might apply, but not this time.

[Erika]

9. The right wing neo conservatives have no one to appoint

W is stuck with Cheney. Unless he helps on hunting assignments.

[upi402]

10. Rudy Giuliani was my guess when Dick finally rots off

Don't let that criminal leave the country, ----QUICK Mr Conyers!!!

[Boo Boo]

11. Not buying the Freudian slip angle... that's just plain silly. /nt

[Disturbed]

12. Rep. Waxman's Investigations may force Cheney to resign.

I suspect that he has enough info. to start Impeachment proceedings on Cheney.

[Boo Boo]

13. Absolutely. I wouldn't doubt that. Cheney could probably be nailed for

defrauding the Federal Government of the United States, among other things. That might be one of the lesser of Cheney's crimes, but men that powerful often do not get nailed for the worst thing they've done.

My remark about Bush's Freudian Slip is just that the way he referred to the three of them (Bush, Pelosi, Reid) without including Cheney is consistent with reality. Bush is the leader of the Executive Branch, Pelosi is the new leader of the House, and Reid is the new leader of the Senate. The Freudian angle is a journalistic invention on the part of the reporter, who has no way of knowing whether it is true or not.

[SouthernBelle82]

14. If Cheney does leave

it's to do a Rummy and try to run away from having to talk at hearings so his lawyer will do all the talking and not him so he wouldn't get in trouble.