In event of a Bush win, few familiar faces seem likely to stay the course

[Justice]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/08/17/in_event_of_a_bush_win_few_familiar_faces_seem_likely_to_stay_the_course/


"...Bush heads into the Republican National Convention in New York with his bulwark in place. The core Republican virtues of loyalty and consistency will be evident in the completeness of the administration: Most of the same crew that took office in the winter of '01 are standing together in the summer of '04."

"But there's no indication that this team will take office in January for Bush's second term, the one being advertised in New York. In fact, the smart betting in Washington is that almost everyone will be gone."
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Rumsfield, Wolfie, Feith, Powell, Ashcroft, Ridge are all speculated to be gone.

Talks about how Bush cares most about a unified front - and how because of that he cannot articulate plans for a second term, as that would include discussing who will be on his team.

[Citizen Daryl]

1. Unified (National) Front

Ein volk, ein reich, ein schweinhundt.

[trotsky]

2. Ashcroft? No way.

He's enjoying his power to push his religious views WAAAAY to much to leave voluntarily.

[trotsky]

3. Blatant lie in that article.

They can't even get thrown out for disloyalty: Secretary of State Colin Powell put his misgivings about the Iraq war on record in Bob Woodward's ''Plan of Attack," and no one in the White House objected.

Paul O'Neill, anyone?

[Dover]

4. Well perhaps the Pubbies will unify themselves before the convention

and choose their OWN team to represent them.

Besides, these are all hollow promises of change, particularly if Cheney remains on the ticket.

[Enraged_Ape]

5. Horseshit. They're pretending because even the (R)s hate them.

I can never see Rumsfeld or Ashcroft leaving their jobs. Ever. Not in my lifetime, if they have anything to do with it. They are absolutely giddy with power.

No, they're just throwing out Bush's next surefire campaign slogan: "Vote for me, and I'll fire all the loathsome people in my employ."

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Yeah, sure, why not?

It's not like he would have to ABIDE by that slogan or anything.

After all, this is the same guy who maintained he wouldn't tolerate even a hint of "impropriety" in his misadministration.

[Jacobin]

6. From what depth of hell will the new crones emerge?

Jeeze, they've already used the whackiest, craziest, most insane and amoral "people" around....

[Art_from_Ark]

8. The Japanese have a saying: Shita ni wa, shita ga aru

Very loosely translated, it means "Even if you think you've seen the worst, there's always something even worse."

[RFKHumphreyObama]

9. It'll be worse

If * wins a second term, he and Cheney won't have to worry about re-election and they can and appoint whatever they please.

I see Armitage or Wolfowitz (don't believe he will be going anywhere) as Secretary of State, Ted Olsen as either Attorney General or a Supreme Court judge and Clarence Thomas as Chief Justice :puke:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. B-1 Bob at Defense,

David Duke at HUD,
Pat Robertson as NSA...

Unbelievably, it could get worse. :wow:

[kskiska]

13. Olsen has already announced

he's going back to the private sector to make some money.

[dumpster_baby]

10. Michael Powell should stay on at the FCC

Although he has obviously been accomodating to media consolidation, he does seem to very much want to open up the spectrum for unlicensed usage. And that would be a real boom for lowering the cost of broadband internet. And once most Americans have broadband internet, the corporate capitalism scam is on its way out because then the mass media will be much more egalitarian, and so the ideas in most American heads will be more egalitarian.

[Catfight]

12. I thought Commie Rice was ready to leave as well?

Let's send Bush home with them all and start the trials.