Who will replace Dick Cheney next month

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he's in the hospital already and I think he'll retire for health reasons so the GOP candidate for 2008 is appointed as VP.

Who will that be?

in spite of his pathetic kowtowing in to bushco there are still way too many who still see him as the independent maverick

All his views, IIRC are conservative.

--IMM

Bush is a worst-of-both-worlds "president": he combines the free-spending ways of the stereotypical liberal with the extreme social conservatism that might be found in a John Birch Society member and stirs in a bloodthirstiness not seen since Lavrenty P. Beriya (http://www.cold-war.info/people/beriya-lavrentiy-pavlovich.html) walked the earth.

McCain, on the other hand, is more of a pure conservative. I don't think he would have launched a war against Iraq. I think he would have had F-16s in the air to shoot down the four 9/11 planes, assuming the terrorists hadn't all been rounded up before they got to the planes. And we would have gone into 2005 with a small job gain over Clinton, not a massive loss.

--IMM

If he had any integrity, he wouldn't have shilled for a rich AWOL frat boy who denigrated his patriotism and hinted he had a black bastard child -- especially to help trash a fellow war hero.

There's a point beyond which one cannot go and still retain a shred of personal honor. McCain is so far beyond that point, he can't even see it in the rearview mirror.

:grr:

I'm kind of caught here in a relativistic bind. I guess I could have said, "Compared to Bush..." in my statement which would give it some validity.

--IMM

then we'll have a Dem pickup in the Senate. Remember, TN has a Dem governor.

Their Thanksgiving dinner coversation this year will reveal the next victim of "freedom".

...he looks like hell, postponed his physical, and has whatever apparatus we saw at the debates hooked up 24/7.

The Congress will be picking the next president....mark my words.

There is no other way to get rid of him

to have the job!

He's been whoring for the job since 9/11.

in my house. This is my only news source anymore. So what is supposedly wrong with the old fucker this time??? Hope it's terminal. Can I get arrested for that?? It isn't a threat, only a wish.

Isn't that the way it's structured

He would be the less messy pick to replace in any event.

I bet he'll be the guy.

president, vice president, then speaker of the house

in this case, HASTERT

ugh

The president picks the replacement. Nixon picked Ford in 1973 and then Ford picked Rocky in 1974.

The constitution was changed following President Kennedy's death that if the VP office is vacant the President replaces the VP.

Turman did not have a VP after FDR's death nor did LBJ when JFK was killed.

Pick your poison time.

Speaker of the House. He is next in line after Cheney.

If Dick steps down or dies W would pick a new VP.

Bush nominates one and if both houses approve it, he's the new VP.

George H.W back!!! Makes the monarchy complete in a sick sort of way. Then we can watch Babs and Pickles try to remain civil to
one another in public.

Hey, at least it would be something to laugh about for the
next four years.

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and we know any list bush has has gotta be pretty short.

Is that how you spell her silly name?

Bush is going to take great glee in making sure the rep party has the first woman in the whitehouse.

He's been an incompetent as Majority Leader, but he's Rove's boy. Trust me (or maybe not, considering that I really thought Kerry would win) - Frist will run in '08 with the WH's blessing.

That would also allow Senate Republicans to pick someone more hardcore, like Santorum.

Don't even dream of it being a moderate Republican. It's going to a be a far right-wing guy, no question.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

he won't go with a moderate because his base would be furious and he won't go with his brother because that would be just too awkward and odd, that would sound more like a dictatorship ticket.... not like we're far away from one though.

Colin Powell would be the logical choice.

This would be a major kick in the balls to the progressives, but this guy's run for reelection in 2006 is doomed to failure.

Let's hope it doesn't happen.

If D**k is calling the shots now, who will be calling them if he leaves?
They would really have to get someone who is willing to be #2 and toe the line - There's no way I could see His majesty Rudy doing that.
It would be an insider loyalist.

Forget Catkiller Frist: Tennessee's Democratic governor means that any replacement for Frist would be a Dem, not a Republican, and Bush needs all the Republicans in the Senate he can possibly get. He needs all of the House Republicans too, so none of them will be tapped. He's gonna go to the business community.

I'm going to throw two names out there for your perusal. Both of them would make a better president than Shrub is, and they're both Republicans.

One of them is Bob Nardelli. He runs The Home Depot. Nardelli's strength is logistics. He runs a corporation with well over 300,000 employees. He is not my first choice, but he's going to be on any Bush CEO shortlist.

I think Carly Fiorina from HP will be the next vice-president. Carly has a Harvard MBA but she didn't come to class stoned the way Bush did. She's smart and, more importantly, she's a grand opportunity for Bush to make the GOP the first party to put a woman in the White House. I think she's more moderate than Shrub, but that goes without saying: Attila the Hun is more moderate than Shrub.

One thing that might kill either one's chances is their personnel policies: I know Home Depot, and I think HP, has same-sex partner benefits. HP would have had them longer than we. This would piss off the fundie base. My third choice is Norm Miller from Interstate Batteries--who gets the nod primarily for his rabid evangelism. I would say Truett Cathy from Chick-fil-a, but he's older than Cheney and Bush needs a young person.

But it's going to be a CEO. He can't afford to pull one of his precious Republican votes from Congress.

And how big of a stretch is it to think that BushCo would install a shining new veep, so he could run as a semi-incumbent in 2008?

Everything Cheney does now (basically running foreign policy) could phoned in.

Look for it to happen.

I did not know that! My friend in Tennessee is all fired up to get him out of office in '06.

Of course when he termlimited himself, was he even dreaming that he would become Majority Leader? Probably not.

My grandfather's doctor was Senator Frist's grandfather, and yes they were big time Democrats. They also started Hospital Corporation of America. I think everybody in the family is a doctor of some kind or another. Bill's brother is a plastic surgeon, I think.

Well, under the 1964 succession act, if the VP dies or is otherwise unable to serve, the president can appoint a successor, who must go through Senate confirmation ( I am old enough to remember all that happened with Nixon/Agnew.) If the president should die or otherwise have to leave office after that then the appointed VP becomes President (re: Jerry Ford) and gets to then appoint a new VP who must be approved.
Ford appointed Nelson Rockefeller, a Republican who would be a democrat if he were alive today. So from the time Nixon resigned our Pres and VP were NOT elected by the nation as a whole, although Ford was elected to Congress and was in fact House Minority Leader when Nixon tapped him to succeed Agnew

Thats the scoop I've heard.

Yes, it's possible!

They are grooming him. I'm sure B*sh could change a few rules to get away from the citizenship clause. But with Jeb in the wings, maybe dubby needs a loser as VP. Who will run the country is still in question.