Cheney soon to go for health reasons - why celebrations may be premature

[JackRiddler]

I hereby re-post the following set of thoughts. Tell me if they don't seem more realistic by the day?

Note: It won't surprise me if Step 4 precedes Step 2.

1) Cheney resigns before the posse comes after him, citing health reasons. He had a great run as chief executive (in the sense of capo di capi) but has outlived his personal usefulness, and anyway there are less than two years left in the term. If any legal matters come up, he can get a pocket pardon in Dec. 2008.

2) Bush appoints whoever his mob wants to be the next president. Because I think they'd prefer someone they can pretend was never involved in the administration, my guess remains with Giuliani. But Rice is not impossible. Even if it's Ghengis Khan, the corporate media will pimp it and call it a conciliatory choice.

3) This is not 1974. No one seems to remember 1974. The Democratic participation in giving Petraeus an 81-0 approval vote should tell you how things will go.

4) Iran! Attack! Crisis! Fear! O Shit! We must suspend all criticism and unite in common cause!

5) No matter how they contort to conform, as usual, the Democrats are called obstructionists, in part by "liberals" and people ostensibly in their own party.

6) The new veep is featured prominently as a great leader for dealing with the crisis.

7) Ack! More Crisis! Hard times! How dare those foreigners drop our dollar?! Boom! Blam!

Option: Baby Bush himself goes, by whatever means, putting the new guy in as prez in advance. W has also outlived his usefulness.

All this will not guarantee a 2008 coronation, but puts the new beast in the best possible position for it, already running the administration but not an "incumbent." They'll be able to play it as though the Democrats (liberals!) are in charge, and tying the poor guy's hands.

A Republican victory is all the more guaranteed, if the Democratic candidate is the person currently appointed as "front-runner" by the corporate media - you know, the one whom the money loves?

Think the mobsters in power wouldn't do this? Think they haven't already done worse?

Did you notice that no less an establishment top man than Zbigniew Brzezinski just declared to the Congress in writing and in testimony that he believes the planners of the Iran war are capable of engineering a terrorist pretext "in the United States" to justify a war of aggression against Iran?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x107654

What limits do you think these people acknowledge, especially when they're in trouble?

[Kelly Rupert]

1. I think this is possible but unlikely,

just as I have every one of the last hundred conspiracy theories that involved either Cheney stepping down, a second 9/11, or immediate war with Iran. They've been popping up left and right ever since 2004.

[aquart]

2. Thank you for your concern.

Naturally, paranoid hysteria is the best choice in situations like these. Be sure to give up without a fight because the fight can never be won.

Personally, to me, that's collaboration.

[JackRiddler]

6. see post #5

I'm not presenting this as a despair scenario. It's a logical set of steps from the perspective of the regime. Knowing about it is the first step to combatting it. I'm sorry if you find this paranoid -- compared to what? "Enemy combatant"? Military tribunals? USA PATRIOT? "Homeland" Security? The end of habeas corpus? The end of posse comitatus, the militarization of the police, the incursion of military into police functions? Because it's all happened, and it's pollyanna to pretend it hasn't...

[PADemD]

3. 2) Bush appoints whoever his mob wants to be the next president.

Jeb

[DemBones DemBones]

4. I wouldn't be surprised. As I've been saying

for a couple of days in "impeach them" threads, be careful what you wish for. We should all pray they finish their terms and go away.

Do we really want another appointed president like Gerry Ford??? Named Guiliani or J.E. Bush???

[JackRiddler]

5. I don't agree...

Impeachment is the only remedy under the constitution that might begin to repair the damage done. Whatever stage it reaches will be better than nothing. I am merely describing how they may attempt to get ahead of it and define events anyway.