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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:10 AM
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tinfoilhat prediction -- shrub to resign for health reasons
Edited on Wed Nov-16-05 01:12 AM by unblock
i think the shrub presidency is effectively toast. the rats are quickly deserting. it's not so much the bad news that's come out lately, it's the news on the horizon. there's just too much potential for more bad news and not enough potential for good news for the shrubbies.

there's not enough time for the banana republicans to really resurrect shrub to be useful for the '06 elections, and after two full terms, he won't be very useful for the '08 elections either, especially not with marginal (at best) popularity.

so they have to get rid of him. they can't afford to carry him as a lame duck for over 3 solid years.

but there's no way in hell they'll ever impeach him. talk about shooting yourself in the foot!

nor will they permit shrub to be hounded into resignation amid ever widening and deepening scandal. it's bad enough as it is, and cheney's no ford.


so here's the deal: they work out a cushy retirement and very comfortable private life for shrub after he goes quietly. the pretense will be over his health. they may say he's had a mini-stroke. not enough to truly worry about, but he nobly feels that the people shouldn't have to worry about their commander-in-chief, and so he steps aside.

:tinfoilhat:

where this gets really interesting is to figure out what happens to cheney. does he drop out first? or does he take over? and what impact does a health-related resignation have for dick 'crash-cart' cheney?

also the timing makes for interesting speculation. shrub won't do it anytime soon, but another 3 or 4 months of this crap and he'll be itching to take his ball and go home.

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:14 AM
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1. Maybe they'll pull a Bob Roberts..
Stage a fake accident, make it look like some "crazed liberal" tried to shoot him, get him some sympathy... This whole administration has played out like some crazy movie, why not let life imitate art for a change...
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:29 AM
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10. They did that in Russia, the guy with the dud grenade
...and NO ONE CARED.

But hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. Who knows what they will cook up?
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:17 AM
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2. He will not do it willingly. He will be holding onto the doorjambs of the
White House while they are trying to forcibly drag him out if they really want him out of there. He will be kicking and screaming and they will have to sedate him.
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loudsue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:21 AM
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4. True. He'd never be able to look Poppy in the face again.
He's SO determined to be better than Poppy for a change. Of course, even as bad as Poppy is, it ain't gonna happen.

With this crowd, I wouldn't be surprised if Poppy had his own son Wellstoned. None of them appear to have any feelings or any morals.


:kick::kick::kick:
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unrepuke Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:25 AM
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7. ...and go play golf the same day.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:27 AM
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8. There had beensome rumors about Poppy's private plane crashing
Edited on Wed Nov-16-05 01:27 AM by BrklynLiberal
a while back...just before it was supposed to have picked him up.
Some said there were Oedipal overtones there.
Guess what is good for the goose is good for the gander..so to speak.
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Zan_of_Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:38 AM
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11. Not a rumor. It happened. In the Houston area.
I don't think it was Poppy's personal plane, rather a charter. It was coming in to Houston to pick him up, take him somewhere out of the country, maybe Central or South America. It crashed on the outskirts of Houston before getting to Houston.
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lies and propaganda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 04:00 AM
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14. from what i hear, they dont talk much as it is
and i dont believe much out of Drudges mouth, but its funny and it works, so il use it ;)
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Shyriath Donating Member (160 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:18 AM
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3. Ahhh, if only it would be so...
But somehow Bush doesn't seem like the type to back down in that fashion, not even with the other Republicans urging him to. He seems more like the sort who, in the face of utter defeat, will insist all the more vehemently that he's right, even if he's the only one who sees it.

But what that would lead to, I shudder to imagine.
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DemInDistress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:25 AM
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5. If bush becomes a liability would the neocons
JFK him? It would get rid of a problem {he's boozing}plus the country
would mourn the loss maybe some "Martial Law",it could also serve as a distraction from invading or bombing the shit out of Syria and Iran.
Even the GOP in congress are wary and troubled with him plus he's so
damn stupid always butchering the language he many times looks tortured by his choice of words or his famous bushisms..These power
brokers play for real,{stolen 2002 election}{911}{anthrax}{Iraq wmd lies}{patriot act}{Iraq war}{Hariri assassination}{Jordan blast}.I can
envision a tragic death for GW.
George W. Bush has become the person the world hates most..and rightfully so !!!
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:25 AM
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6. "family reasons", Karin Hughes steps in as Cheney hospitalized
As the worm turns.
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petgoat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:27 AM
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9. I sure hope he goes peacefully
My greatest fear is that he will be assassinated, thus becoming a
martyr, and then his crimes will remain forever unexposed.

Cheney's 19% approvals mean he has to go too. First Cheney resigns
for health reasons, then Bush appoints a moderate and popular Republican
as VP (like McCain) and then Bush resigns for health reasons.

I hope it doesn't happen. I want him to fight every step of the way,
with his last defenders circled around him to the end like Custer's men
at Little Big Horn. This country needs its face throughly rubbed in
Bush.

86 43! Pelosi for President in '07!

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serryjw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:52 AM
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13. I agree with your scenario
Chaney steps down and George Allen takes his place, then after 2006 Bushit steps down if things don't get better. That way George Allen moves into the Presidency and can still get elected TWICE after his half term!..aren't they clever. Actually it isn't as far fetched as it sounds. right now they have a chance like a snow ball in hell of taking the WH in 2008. IF George Allen was there as an incumbent they may have a shot
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ugarte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 01:46 AM
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12. Maybe that's why they're talking up bird flu
:rofl:
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 04:23 AM
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15. Floating that balloon alrady
in the scream sheets

and I paraphrase from the globe

"I'd walk away if the price were not so high."

25th ammendment, but first they need to get rid of El Presidente Chenney
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 05:46 AM
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17. i figured it out! PRESIDENT MIERS!!!
remember how they always promote failure?
remember how ashcroft lost and election to a dead guy so they promoted him?

now that miers has proven herself worthy by coming in second in a non-elected position, they'll appoint her vice-president after fitz forces cheney to resign.

maybe this is why they are tolerating the investigation!!!

then shrub resigns and miers is president! it's only for a year or so by that time and she'll just be a caretaker president anyway and could hardly be worse than an 8th year of lame shrub.

wow, this :tinfoilhat: business is fun!!!!!!!111
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 04:32 AM
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16. Rats do NOT "desert!"
We "dessert!"

I love your :tinfoilhat: Let me wear one too :tinfoilhat: because I think Bushler is toast! :tinfoilhat:

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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 06:04 AM
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18. He has been thrown over the side
Edited on Wed Nov-16-05 06:04 AM by annabanana
by the big money people... When the DC Times (moonie paper) starts saying anything other than "Mr. Wonderful is doing everything right" he has been deserted.

Now he's insulted the Chinese (our OverLords) and he knows he's been hung out to dry.
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:02 AM
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19. Your first paragraph is the reason Bush will leave or become completely
irrelevant. The house of cards has started to fall. He can't recover, because there is no competency in his administration. Once the bullshit stops working, they're left with nothing -- no skills, no experienced professionals, no plans. Things are going to go much further downhill for this reason. Bush will be reviled in his own lifetime and destroyed in history books afterward.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 08:29 AM
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20. My own recurring nightmare...
Cheney leaves for "health reasons." In an "unprecedented gesture of bipartisanship"--Leiberman is named VP.

Then, Bush's popularity continues to plummet & he's convinced to leave. The "health" excuse would work for him, as well. If he's not willing, his meds could be "adjusted" & he'd flip out on the podium. Then be led away to retirement.

President Leiberman supplies pardons for all.


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