Did anybody see THIS? Cheney Blood Clot May Step Down????!!!

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This is bizarre. Looks like Mr. Cheney was JUST diagnosed today of a blood clot in his leg & may have to 'step down'.

Incredible timing, don't you think?

Sorry, if this is a dup!

...he was back to work yesterday afternoon.

Let's wait and see but this has been predicted for a long time on DU that Cheney would step down due to "health reasons".

in the VP spot - like Hagel - so they can give him power and campaign with "Don't switch teams during a war" theme. And/or so they can steal the next election and have less screaming - it is more plausible if they win if the person was installed as VP well before the election.

...but Hagel doesn't like the war either.

anti-surge, anti-war, anti-Bush sentiments might not be - to some extent - designed to present himself as the viable Republican alternative to everyone who now hates Bush. I've heard Thom Hartmann say that Hagel was, at some point along the way, a G.H.W. Bush mentee...

:shrug:

:wow: If there's anything that we can bank on it's that these evil men only care about their fellow corporate crooks and increased power. If Dick goes, the position will be given to someone who'll reward the Military Industrial Complex and the wealthy at every given opportunity. Out of the present front running candidates, I don't even think Mitt fits that criteria.

Wait! Newt does fit in with Dick and George. :scared:

There ya go!


If Dick can't hold on, Newt will fill the VP slot until 2009.

He NEEDS the GOP to fund it. Cheney doesn't need anything from anyone anymore. He has his nice little Halliburton payment. He's all set to step down and "lunch" with his neighbor Rummy.

:rofl: :hi:

He still couldn't read it...:D

hobble on one leg if he has to...just to remain in power...Snarl!!!

but the pardon won't be until near the end of Bush's term. With an appeal he may not serve a day, if he does serve it will be in some kind of country club federal prison for a short time.

terrorists friends anymore, just send George.


The vice-president's travel schedule is likely to be severely curtailed in future.

They've SO been working that angle lately... "Rice said this..." "Rice thinks that..." Setting it up all along. Do they think we're stupid?

Saw my first Condi Rice for Prez bumper sticker last month.

:shrug:

Hagel isn't only the strongest conservative candidate, he's also the neocons' worst nightmare. Look for a safekeeper, or maybe Giuliani. But if they put a current candidate in (which is unlikely) it'll cause major hard feelings throughout the party. I doubt they'd be that ballsy.

Gates is another possibility if they want someone to fill the Cheney vacuum, but who can still fly thru the Senate without much trouble. Barring that, they may go with some senior-but-safe political figure: Tom Ridge, Mitch McConnell, or even someone out of center field like Peter King of New York. If it's a senator, it'll be someone from a state with a Republican governor. Hell, it could even be Joe Lieberman (look on his works, ye mighty, and despair!), which would solve lots of problems for lots of people, but in the long run probably help the Republicans in 2008.

They are worried bush and cheney are going to be impeached. That would allow Pelosi to take office. If cheney steps down, they can appoint (and hope congress approves them) another vice president. This way they would keep the presidency in the republican hands. That is the only reason cheney would give up his power.

Last night he met "Doctor" Lucifer at a secure undisclosed crossroads location and promised him a couple of hundred more souls in hell, more carnage and death on earth, and once again his everlasting fealty to his underworld master in exchange for a quick fix.

... drained the orphans for their fresh blood. Honestly, such shoddy workmanship.

After bush pardons him

Nixon was getting into trouble, but the Agnew situation took some heat off him for a while. Agnew was just about to get slammed, so off he goes...the powers that be in the GOP, (the ones we never really hear of), made sure Ford, a serious moderate and all around nice guy, took the VP spot vacated by Agnew.

This set the stage for Nixon to leave under a pall of scorn and the pardon from Ford, was assured before Nixon left office. I believe Ford took the helm precisely because he was not such a polarizing figure in the GOP, and certainly was far from being a radical. He was also an honest man, perhaps one of the last we'll ever see w/that amount of power.

So here we go...Part 2: IF, and that's still a big "IF" Cheney steps down, the powers behind the curtain have worked their magic once again. Once again, a moderate will be found to fill the position, and the path will be open to dump bush. Oddly enough, this is not in the Dem side of power, but strictly GOP. The solution is to get rid of the bum w/the least amount of disturbance to the structure. The GOP big guns know bush has destroyed the GOP for perhaps 4-8 years, that's two election cycles. The will sacrifice power for a time, in the hope of regaining it in the future. The big guns won't allow bush to drag the GOP into turmoil and splinter off into various groups w/their own set of agendas...they don't want to become the Dem's...:)

I know this all sounds like :tinfoilhat: stuff, but remember, this is how it was done to get Nixon out of office, and if there is one thing the GOP knows how to do, it is learn how deal w/catastrophic consequences from poor decision making.