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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 02:51 PM
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Bloodless Coup in Washington? McCain to Replace Cheney? Things that make you go hmmmmm...
Have Americans just witnessed the first bloodless coup in our history? Has The Establishment and those aging human remnants of The Trilateral Commision simply taken the keys away from Bush 43?

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If Bush and Cheney don't have the authority to manage Foreign Policy and to direct the Defense Department, they no longer control the government they were elected to serve.

Now, with a Democratic majority in Congress, control of domestic policy is not in the White House. It has moved to Capitol Hill, where funding will be decided for priorities in the Bush will have little or no control over domestic spending for the next two years. So now, Bush 43 has no control over the domestic budget and little or no control over State and Defense. Sure looks like a bloodless coup to us.

What's next? Just a little advice to Dick Cheney: Watch your back because we keep hearing that Senator McCain could be convinced to step in ... as Vice President.

http://www.hinessight.com/bloodlesscoup.html

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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 02:56 PM
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1. We had a bloodless coup in 2000, duckie.
Edited on Tue Dec-12-06 02:57 PM by aquart
Didn't you notice?

Oh, and McCain will replace Cheney over Georgie's bleeding corpse. Cheney is impeachment insurance and McCain is NOT.
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dubykc Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 03:21 PM
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2. I would think McCain would be more insurance than Cheney, because...
Edited on Tue Dec-12-06 03:22 PM by dubykc
then Georgie could resign and McCain could pardon them both and they move to Paraguay.

With the way the popularity for the Iraq war is dropping Cheney is becoming more and more of a liability than an asset, he is definately expendable.
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jfxgillis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 03:45 PM
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3. Know anything about this website?
It's dead on except for the advice at the end.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 03:54 PM
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6. no. Showed up in my e-mail keyword elerts.
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jfxgillis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 03:58 PM
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7. Think they're on to something?
I do.

And I'm not generally a tin-foil type.

That does not mean, however, that Global Capital won't protect its interests even if the threat is unintentional and from a guy named "Bush."
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 04:49 PM
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11. I dunno. I hear rumors fly all the time
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suston96 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 03:52 PM
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4. I don't think so....
...Arizona has a Dem governor and would appoint a Dem to replace McCain. Won't happen.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 03:53 PM
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5. Repugs would love that ....thinking McCain would be a shoe in for the
Edited on Tue Dec-12-06 03:54 PM by KoKo01
P-Residency in '08 and that he could restore credibility to the WH. But, one wonders how both Cheney and Bush would feel about something like that.

The little Chimp might put his foot down and scream.."NO...NO...Don't take away Unca Dickey....he's the one I can blame for all the bad things that have happened while I was working so hard to keep everyone safe." :-(

Unca Dicky might not want to be out of the WH when all those investigations start and Scooter goes on trial, either. Lots of protection there and secrets in boxes and on tapes and if he's deposed there are folks who can make sure he doesn't take that stuff with him.
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BlueStater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 04:16 PM
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8. No way Chimpy picks McCain
It's more likely to be someone like Bill Frist. Or Rick Santorum. Or Sam Brownback.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 04:29 PM
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9. Poppy will never let that happen.
He'll have to call in every favor that's ever been owed to him, but he'll do it rather than see Junior kicked to the curb.

And Poppy has very powerful friends.

Bake
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BluegrassDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 04:32 PM
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10. It would be good cause McCain could then be tied to the
Bush regime. It would be great in the campaign. Also, we'd get a new Democratic senator from AZ. It's a win-win.
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