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They lost the House and the Senate in one night with one savage blow. Even the Confederate flag at Senator “Macakaw’s” house was flying at half-mast. Suddenly the Reich that was “built to last a thousand years” had been reduced to small blocks of dusty-rubble extending from sea to shining sea. At the very epicenter of the twisted-iron and smoldering wreckage; was George W. Bush, President Hologram, the celluloid executive whose smirking puss had appeared daily on every American TV and in every American newspaper spreading the “good news” of domestic repression and nonstop war. Now, here he was, once again, convening a news conference, dazed and ashen, propped up amid the scattered debris of a midterm massacre; his party left in utter ruins.
Ouch!
In a moment worthy of Shakespeare, the Fraudster-in-chief had been scuttled by his own party; knifed in the back by his own friends and family who knew that it was finally time to extract the drunken driver from behind the wheel of a Mack Truck.
The Democrats didn’t win anything; that’s all hogwash. Bush was buried beneath an avalanche of bad news which was timed to begin with the release of Bob Woodward’s book “State of Denial”, followed by the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), Lancet’s Iraqi casualty report, the Mark Foley page fiasco, and a barrage of ethics-scandals, corruption investigations, and intensified coverage of the war. It was a carefully-coordinated coup intended to install “adults” (like Robert Gates) in positions of power, change the policy in Iraq, and remove Rumsfeld and Cheney from office.
One down; one to go.
The “vanilla” Democrats had nothing to do with Tuesday’s results. It was a “planned demolition” from the get-go.
Robert Dreyfuss said it best in a recent article when he opined that
Bush was handled in the same way “a family confronts an alcoholic. You
bring everyone in, and you say, ‘Look, my friend, it’s time to
change.’” (And then you remove the bad influences)
Elite powerbrokers and Republican Party kingpins extended their hoary
grip all the way into the Oval Office and took the country back from
the teenagers. But the boulder is still only half way up the hill.
After all, what are their plans for Cheney?
Cheney wisely decided to go hunting when he discovered that friend
Rumsfeld was being led to the gallows. Cheney’s no fool. He knew that
if he hung around, he’d be blamed as the co-conspirator of the Iraqi
debacle and the subsequent destruction of the Republican Party.
So he did what Cheney always does; he skedaddled. He suddenly
discovered that he “had more important things to do”; just like Vietnam.
He said he was going hunting, but that’s rubbish. He wanted to be as
far from the political fallout as humanly possible, so he vamoosed.
There’s nothing more to it than that. Besides, there’ve been no reports
of “downed lawyers full of birdshot” this week in Wyoming so we know
that Cheney’s firearms are still safely tucked-away in the family vault.
Right now, Cheney is probably huddled somewhere with his national
security team, rubbing his sweaty-hands together, figuring out how he
can get back in the game and keep his fetid plan moving forward.
Cheney is smart; real smart. Smart like a cobra. He’s not going down
without a fight and he doesn’t give a damn if he takes the whole
country with him.
This is all about Cheney now; Dick Cheney, political survivor and
skilled bureaucratic infighter. If anyone thinks that he’s going to sit
around waiting for the Democrats to start sniffing around the
Republican corruption-cesspool; they’re crazy.
He knows what’s going on. He knows that Bush Senior, and Brzezinski,
and Baker, and the rest of the “old order” Republicans have muscled in
and are taking over. He knows he won’t be able to bomb Iran, kill
another 650,000 Iraqis, or declare martial law at home. And, he also
knows that Conyers and the rest of them will be nosing-around the
Halliburton “no bid” contracts; going through every sordid detail with
a fine-tooth comb, and dredging up new scandals on a daily basis.
He grasps all of that. He understands the political climate and he knows that he only has two choices left; offense or defense?
Either he steps down or he collects his wits, gets his team together;
Addington, Abrams, Chertoff, Gonzales etc; all the guys who are “one
step ahead of the hangman”; and slaps together one “last-ditch” effort
to establish absolute-dictatorial power that will put him forever
beyond the reach of the law or of any future accountability for his war
crimes.
It’s a tough task. Bush is teetering and he’s probably left the
Cheney-Rumsfeld orbit already. Robert Gates’ job is to influence Bush,
to win him over with reason and, thus, move the country away from the
brink of disaster. Cheney has been removed from the policy-making
apparatus and he knows it.
So, what’ll he do next?
What will Cheney do now that he’s been backed into a corner and his
power is oozing away like the blood from a sucking chest-wound?
Will he quietly retire and disappear into the political vapor or “lock-n-load” and go down with both guns blazing?
Here’s a clue: Cheney is a “dead-ender”. He won’t go peacefully.
Bang or whimper: who cares written by Jimmy Montague,
November 10, 2006
I don't care how the sumbitch goes, as long as he goes to prison. The gas chamber would be better, but I'll call it a good deal if he gets 20 years in a REAL prison.
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What will dick do written by g levin,
November 10, 2006
He will cut a deal! A deal with Baker that is, He needs a deal to safeguard him from congretional oversight and crime exposure. The question is how can Baker get Dick a free pass considering how much he's hated by the democrats for his involvment in the Florida 2000 election?! If all fails - a presidential pardon will be offered for sure.
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Doesn't mean dick! written by Clarity Vendor,
November 13, 2006
Rummy is the sacrafice. A true court card of a bad, bad, hand. Bush, the suicide king, and all his men will easily unravel all that is left of our freedoms and way of life. The power shift is an illusion. Cheney is going no where. in fact, it is almost time for a ramp up. My guess is by April 07.
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Take away the Presidential Pardon written by Jerry Sarvas,
November 13, 2006
First item of new business for the new Congress should be to greatly reduce the President's ability to pardon as this is the "Get out of Jail Free card" that every loyal member of this war crime's regime is counting on in the end.
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Why isn't Cheney in Prison? written by Mike Scirocco,
November 13, 2006
I would like to know why Cheney isn't in prison.
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Cheney is likely to go quietly written by Californian,
November 14, 2006
The man is a dodger. He dodged the draft, he will get out before there is a fight. I don't know that he has any sort of track record for taking on any challenge head-on. As a passive aggressive pussy, he may try to 'tweak' things on his way out the door but it seems unlikely that he will be able to handle a direct confrontation.
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