My perdictions of how it is going to go with bush & Iraq

[Botany]

The order in which these things will happen is not set but they will happen.


1. Dick Cheney will step down because of "health reasons"
2. John McCain will get the job
3. "His Report" (bush's) will call for more troops to help stabilize
Iraq
4. We will do the Saudi's bidding and try to take out the Shi army
run by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
5. Iraq will continue to fall into all out civil war
6. Troops will be pulled out by 2008 and the Presidential elections.

:tinfoilhat:

[Gregorian]

1. Does that mean we can impeach McCain?

I think you're not far off the mark.


Let me be the first to say Impeach McCain! :)

[elocs]

3. Is there a Republican who some Democrat does not want to impeach?

I think if the scenario plays out that way and a Vice President McCain is impeached, then in 2008 we can say hello to President McCain as well as losing the Senate. But that's ok as long as everybody get impeached even though none of them gets convicted. That way we get to be all noble and self righteous in upholding truth and justice as the Republicans begin to regain power.

[Gregorian]

4. I'm partially joking.

But I endorse impeachment of those who do not uphold their oaths. Having said that, whomever is voted in as the next president is a function of the voters in this country. If Americans want another repub as president, then they get what they ask for. I am not basing my actions on what the voters might do. I think it's two separate issues.

[elocs]

7. You may be partially joking, but many others are not.

Their answer to nearly everything is impeachment and impeachment of every and any Republican is sight. The American electorate may not see the impeachment impulse as the panacea for all of our ills. Pelosi is smart enough to keep it off the table until hearings and investigations clearly show that impeachment is not about revenge or political payback.

[Nimrod2005]

2. Very good analysis....nt

[calimary]

5. I doubt he'd pick mccain for the job. That would put the republi-CONS

in a similar worse-case scenario to what we face now with Tim Johnson. The governor in Arizona is Janet Napolitano if memory serves and she's a DEM. It would take mccain out of the senate and set them farther back, numerically, whereas they're in fairly good shape now with the slim majority we have. If something goes wrong, BOOM, back in the high life for them.

Also, I don't think bush really thinks highly enough of mccain to give him a leg up on 2008 like that. I think he sneers at mccain and regards him as important only so far as he could use the guy for his own gain. I don't think he gives a damn, any way you look at it, and that he's petty and mean-spirited enough that he would enjoy denying mccain the incumbent advantage an "instant presidency" would confer upon him. I think he might, however, enjoy throwing the whole country AND especially the Dems for a loop and elevating contradicta. Wouldn't that just be a perfect way for them to kick the legs out from under us? They could say THEY are the party that is best for blacks AND for women and leave Democrats looking REACTIVE if we ran Hillary OR Obama. The pre-arranged pardons would all be in place. She'd do what her boyfriend tells her.

Or... what if he picked jebbie? Now there's an interesting thought...

[intaglio]

6. This is a complete tinfoil hat idea that I have

If Cheney steps down and * appoints a presidential hopeful as successor (Giuliani, McCain, Romney) would it be outside the bounds of possibility that a "lone gunman" could be set up to assassinate W? This lone nut could be shown to have links to Iran and/or the Democratic party and would succeed to the throne with high prospects for re-election. Do you think we should set up some sort of protection for the chimp?