How Do We Get To 2008?

[Demeter]

Let's consider the thought problem (gedankeproblem, for the Einstein crowd) of the space-time continuum: how do we get to 2008 from here, and what will we find when we get there?

An awful lot of people in public office, the media, etc., people who would be most likely to know, are publicly operating on the assumption that:

OF COURSE George W. Bush, twice awarded the presidency under a cloud of criminal enterprise, confessed war criminal and generally acknowledged failure in all adult endeavors,

will peacefully, quietly, and willingly depart from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Inaugural Day, 2008.

Because of this conviction on their part, they see no reason to pursue a conviction on his.

I am unconvinced.


I see only limited and unlikely scenarios removing this esecrence that desecrates the White House:

1) Both House and Senate flipping in November of 2006 (7 weeks from now!) and plunging full-bore into impeachment, trial and conviction of both Bush and Cheney.

2) Either Poppy or the Bush brothers, or all of them, working together to coax W. out of DC and the country to reside with his Saudi relations, far from the Hague, for safety's sake.

3) The remains of the GOP coming to their senses and doing to W what they did to Nixon.

4) Poppy or one of his black ops. doing a Kennedy (or whichever assasssination suits your frame of mind).

5) Sudden health failure of either Poppy, W, Rove, Cheney or all of the above.

6) Invasion by a friendly power that removes the war criminals en masse to trial.

7) Civil uprising that sweeps the criminal enterprise from power forever.

None of these solutions are standard operating procedure--well, not for those NOT of the Bush Family Evil Empire. In truth, I see no organic way that BushCo will be going out of business. I would love to be persuaded otherwise.

What are your views?

[saltpoint]

1. No crystal ball at my house, but we believe Bushco will go of its own

volition and that the transfer of power will be relatively smooth.

The GOP field for 08 is amazingly weak and electorally vulnerable.

My sharp disdain for the Bush administration is balanced by my deep hope that the considerable damage it has done can be addressed and redressed by a Democratic administration.

Any Democrat would be just fine with me, but of course I have 4 or 5 I would especially love to see get in.

If the U.S. House goes blue on Nov. 7th, Bush's dead-duck status is assured, IMO. John Conyers is nobody's fool. I don't think an unimpeded investigation of the president will allow Bush much room to roam.

Probably it will be a nasty, desperate fight this fall for Congressional seats, but voters are just goddam fed up, and I think the Republicans will lose their majority in the House.

The Senate will be tougher, although hardly beyond reach. Carter's coming up in Nevada, and there is an outside chance for one or two other surprises. If we hold New Jersey, and pick up either Virginia or Tennessee, I think we get the Senate as well.

People from all angles are going to be hitting the Bush administration hard from now until the end of the primary season in 08. Long before the first snowflake falls in Iowa, George Bush will be the subject of expansive derision, including from members of his own party.

I think the safer bet is that Bush himself might resign before the shit hits the fan.