I predict Dick Cheney will have to step down.

[3121guitarist]

Because of the truths that are coming out from the Scooter Libby trial. Libby is talking to save his tail and Cheney is under the thumb in this one. Cheney will be forced to step down soon.

[Xipe Totec]

1. If he does, will Bush become President?

God help us!

[sam sarrha]

4. i am sure Dick still has a cell phone..

[Xipe Totec]

11. What's the area code for Hades?

666?

[Tigress DEM]

28. 666 - number please.

Belzebub is vacationing in Iraq and will return your call whenever he damm well feels like it.

"Huh, huh, oh my bad. Wrong number. I always get those two mixed up."

[Tin Man]

15. LOL - lotta great witticisms on DU tonight!

much better than teevee! :rofl:

[Change has come]

33. LOL

You hit my funny bone with that one! :rofl:

[lse7581011]

38. LOL!!

good one!

[Buzz Clik]

2. Not a chance.

Cheney is the king of "go f*ck yourself". Two years of digging in, dragging his feet, and generally obfucating will be child's play for this criminal.

He ain't goin' nowhere.

[ClassWarrior]

21. Okay, you give the criminals all that power.

:eyes:

They may control a lot, but they're not gonna control MY mind.

NGU.

[Tigress DEM]

23. Besides, Dick isn't running fast enough...and what goes around

is coming right up behind him at a fearsome clip.

[Imagevision]

26. Not a chance? hey! if the shit hits the fan he's gone - just like Porter Goss

before the media had the chance to expose him...

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

34. Yea but he's really going whacko in full public view now

like with Wolf Blitzer today.

Guess it was the followup to Lynn's first strike a while back.

If I could ask Darth Chainey one thing, or advise him on one thing:

Mr. C, do you EVER watch anything other than Fox news? If not you better start.

Dems have the POWER, the power, the power, the power, the subpoena power, more press coverage, a mandate from the public, and just a big change.

:applause:

Don't forget the "I" word may be looming for them all if they leave no other options to Congress and the American people.



(Or the alternate theory is that W et al are planning to convert this DINO (democracy in name only) into the authoritarian regime it has been morphing into for some time, and the plans are in the works)

:scared:

[Buzz Clik]

40. Ugh.

Dems have the POWER, the power, the power, the power, the subpoena power, more press coverage, a mandate from the public, and just a big change.

Yeah, and it's a damn good thing. But we cannot derail Bush and Cheney with the teeny majority in the Senate as seen by the crapout with the minimum wage. We, as Democrats, are no longer irrelevant, but we've not yet risen to the point of being a force to be reckoned with.

[JackRiddler]

36. But what if he realizes the advantage of stepping down?

This guy will never win an election, will not stand for one and cannot possibly steal one in a credible fashion. His time wildl be done in 2008, either way. By stepping down for "health" reasons, he can set up the regime's successor of choice with a substantial boost going into the 2008 election.

The Bush mob/Octopus network is a lot bigger than any one man. I easily see Cheney resigning to allow Giuliani or Rice or whoever the mob prefers the incumbent's advantage in 2008. (Lieberman has been suggested, but that's ridiculous - the replacement would have to be someone popular with a chance of winning/credibly stealing the election.) The honeymoon could distract from the regime's current unpopularity. Add a strike on Iran, justified with whatever incident is used to whip up the frenzy in the media, and the regime's current problems can be overcome.

I can even see both Bush and Cheney being shuffled out prior to the election to set up a putative favorite. Given the right crisis, they can keep things going through 2016...

It's very much up to the people to force impeachment on the table.

[Buzz Clik]

37. Cheney is oblivious to public opinion. And why should he care? He's in charge.

Unless his health truly fails, he will remain.

[JackRiddler]

41. This is not about public opinion

It is about the consensus within a criminal organization, our own national mafia in government. Cheney is not a personal dictator, any more than any powerful capo is, but the exponent of a mob. The group as a whole will understand their collective interest in maintaining their hold on power past 2008 while continuing some residual illusion of free elections. Stepping down is the way for Cheney to control the executive past his own term (and from beyond the grave once he does die). Stepping down furthermore is the reward for all these decades of criminal activity.

[crappyjazz]

3. Have to wait for Libby's proof

if he has any, that he was scapegoated. Even then, I don't hold out hope anymore that Dick will have to do anything except what he damn well pleases.

[3121guitarist]

5. Don't be cynical.

We need this victory. Let the zen monk bring forth the pot of gold. lol

[crappyjazz]

8. I'll need pixie dust or something

I want to believe, I really really do! But, I just don't :)

[Buzz Clik]

10. If you find any of that pixie dust, give me a big snort.

The Tricky Ticker is here to stay.

[kestrel91316]

6. You can't be serious..................the only way either of those two

fascist dirtbags will EVER leave (before their term is up) is if they are impeached, convicted, and then marched out of there bodily by the Capitol police or whoever has the jurisdiction to evict them.

[Hotler]

14. I'm waiting for that day. That day when I hear....

something along the line from that Tom Cruise movie A Few Good Men (I think?) MP's, guard the Vice President.

[ClassWarrior]

22. You're right, let's all give up.

:eyes:

NGU.

[kestrel91316]

42. I'm the last one to say give up, lol!!!!!!

However, I think it is foolish to expect him or Bush to simply do the right and honorable thing by resigning. They will have to be removed by brute force.

[WI_DEM]

7. given his history of heart problems I didn't think he would survive this long.

[poiuytsister]

16. He part of the undead.

Max Schreck looked healthier in Nosfuratu! Maybe we need a wooden stake. Hey, that would make Bush that weird little toady Renfield.

[mitchum]

30. LOL!!!

I like that image of bush as Renfield
it's all too fitting

[Olney Blue]

9. Over his dead body. He would never leave.

[Tigress DEM]

25. Could be a problem there. Suggestions anyone.

Now be careful. Don't want DU to get sued and I'm not trying to incite anything more than smirky replies.

Don't think about an elephant flailing around the living room looking for his heart pills.

[chknltl]

32. Let him eat cake eom

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. That might affect his legacy... never going to happen. eom

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. .........or fall down

if the batteries go bad.

[Initech]

17. Nope. I bet he'll mysteriously die of a heart attack (think Ken Lay).

He'll die of a heart attack mysteriously before any serious criminal charges are brought up.

[Tigress DEM]

27. Don't you think Ken Lay actually died of embarrassment?

One of those people who had the world bending to his desires and laughing about it suddenly exposed out on a limb with no more friends... or fear... the idea of going to prison.

I think Cheney would just adapt.

I can hope his master takes this faithful servant home soon, but I doubt it.

[Initech]

29. Actually, I don't think he's dead at all...

Maybe it's just me being a conspiracy theorist, but I think he's probably sipping margaritas on the Cayman Islands right now.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Maybe he'll get angry on the witness stand

Only Fitzgerald is not Wolf Blizter and he'll force him to answer or be subject to contempt. Maybe Fitzgerald can get Cheney's blood up and rattle him to the point where he goes berserk and tells the entire courtroom to "f%*# off".

[roamer65]

19. Libby will go on a Cheney hunting trip very soon.

Deadeye Dick.

[jarab]

20. Mirroring your apparent seriousness ...

I do think Dick will step down at some point prior to the next election. He would get more pleasure out of helping a "frontrunner" gain some little seniority than would it pain him in regards to his legacy.
We have to remember, they "hate" the Democrats as much as we
"hate" them; anything for the team.

...O...

[sweetheart]

44. No the hatred is not reciprocal

They love the democrats, they steal from us every day... you don't steal what you don't crave.

The democrats don't like being stolen from,
the republicans like to steal.

Its more a wolf/chicken thing. :-)

Equal rights for chickens to be plucked and cooked in santiary conditions!!

[Imagevision]

24. Cheney merely has to resign due to heart/health issues - then return to being CEO of

Halliburton or as the song goes;
"I want to get right back to where I started from"

[madville]

31. I can see it now

Dick resigns, George nominates Condi for VP, she gets confirmed, he resigns and Condi is the incumbent running for President in 2008.

[Unperson]

35. That would be soooooo sweet.

[pdxmom]

39. After watching that interview with Wolfie yesterday, I'm not sure the

Libby trial will be the reason he steps down. The man is clearly delusional! Is it dementia? His comments were totally unbelievable. Criticism is hogwash, Rumsfeld did an amazing job and we've been enormously successful in Iraq? Come on!! Does he really think people are buying this crap?

[bdamomma]

43. public opinion means nothing to these thugs

all the more reason why Cheney's butt will be on the witness stand, information that is coming out all point to VP's office.

[meldroc]

45. My Mythbusters-style prediction:

The odds have changed now that the Democrats control Congress.

10% says Cheney and Libby will be able to weasel out of this completely.
40% says Libby will be the one thrown under the bus like he was appointed to do, despite his protests. Cheney and the other White House crooks won't get touched.
45% says Libby will strike a plea-bargain with Fitzgerald, sing like a canary, and/or Fitzgerald will find evidence that will cause this whole scandal to blow up in Cheney's face, forcing him to resign, maybe even sending him to prison. The entire Bush administration will be paralyzed for the rest of his term.
5% says not only will Cheney be busted, but Bush will get implicated as well and be forced to resign or impeached. Hello, Madame President. One can only hope...

[SoCalDem]

46. Hickory DICKory , Dick's in the Dock

Tic-Tic Tock zzzzt-zot ..
the heart...the heart..shock shock

the Rat's gonna run out the clock

[teriyaki jones]

47. From your lips to God's ears! n/t