If He Is Not Impeached Will He Leave Office In '08?

[ThomWV]

If one part of the Constitution is meaningless so is the rest.

Term limit for the President? Everything changed with 9-11. We need continuity ......

[Poll_Blind]

1. Yes, keeping the chair warm for Jeb, the three-letter four-letter word.n/t

PB

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I think he's gonna squat there as long as the People let him.

[fooj]

5. "squat"

Good one.

peace.

[C_U_L8R]

3. If the Republican Congress does NOT impeach...

then they hand the executive branch unlimited and unchecked power.

Bush will be writing his own laws and you can be sure
that his number one executive order will be appointing
himself President for Life.

[LeftNYC]

4. Good point

Maybe he will call off the election for "national security reasons"

Bush cant wait for '08 to come. You can tell he hates the job. He'd much rather make drinking his job, if he hasnt already. he'll have to stare at himself in the mirror and realize how many people's lives he has destroyed

[Ladyhawk]

9. Something drastic would have to happen for the people to let

him get away with something like this.

This is what will happen: The 2006 and 2008 elections will be stolen and we'll move to Bush 3.0, in whatever body that happens to reside.

After my period of doubt I'm beginning to believe 2004 WAS stolen. Even if it wasn't, those infernal machines have to go before I'll believe in any election result.

[slackmaster]

6. Sorry to have to do this to you ThomWV

:tinfoilhat:

[converted_democrat]

15. Riiight....n/t

[MrSlayer]

7. No, the new President comes in in 2009.

Chimp will leave then.

[slackmaster]

17. D'OH, you're right

January 20, 2009.

[Kralizec]

8. He'll be replaced by someone who will do the same thing

as him. Another puppet.

[Ladyhawk]

10. Agreed. If not, the puppeteers will have him neutralized.

I don't trust the election process anymore.

[Hyernel]

11. He stole his way in...he'll be frogwalked out.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. If he has absolute power to eavesdrop on the DNC before the election

We can be assured that he'll be replaced by a clone of sorts.

It certainly grants an unfair advantage

[BushOut06]

13. Not if Bush has his way

Just watch...if Congress starts impeachment hearings, Bush will "allow" another terrorist attack to happen, so that he can assert more of his power. Even without impeachment hearings, I would expect another terrorist attack in either 2007 or early 2008. This would give Bush the excuse he needs to declare martial law, and grab "emergency powers". He'll bring up FDR, WWII, and how the country needs "continuity" in such troublesome times.

Once that happens, nobody is safe.

[Walt Starr]

14. Well that's the real question now, isn't it? n/t

[slackmaster]

16. No, it's a waste of time and makes us all look a little siller than we are

:argh:

Those who are old enough may remember the far right saying EXACTLY THE SAME THING about President Bill Clinton.

They looked stupid, did they not? Maybe even paranoid?

Same deal.

[Vinnie From Indy]

19. They were so darn stupid that they have taken control of the govt.

It seems their "paraniod" rantings about Bill Clinton did not affect their successful power grab very much. I am sure that as they raid the treasury and destroy American freedom they spend a great deal of time regretting their foolish words.

Also, Bill Clinton isn't even in the same galaxy as BushCo in regard to the trashing of our Constitution. Not even remotely close.

[slackmaster]

21. Your comparison of Bush vs. Clinton misses the point

To some people on the far right, Clinton was every bit as much the Antichrist as Bush is to many of us here.

George W. Bush has an extended sense of Presidential powers to be sure, but to suggest that even he would dare overstep the Constitutional end of his term smacks of paranoia IMO.

[Walt Starr]

24. Clinton didn't torture, use WMDs on civilians, spy on Americans,

dispense with the Geneva Conventions, declare Americans enemy combatants, hold prisoners without trial or charges, rendition prisoners to torture camps in foreign lands...

The list goes on...

[RagAss]

18. This man will never leave power.....I have said this here often...

[theophilus]

20. Sure he'll leave office and be replaced by another figure head

for the neo-cons. We need to understand that Bush has only minuscule power. He is just the "friendly
face" on the real powers that are operating behind the scenes. They have determined to let him take that fall and they will find a replacement that will be strong in the areas in which Bush appears to be weak. Maybe a McCain or even a Lieberman. The real control is behind the scenes so it doesn't really matter who is the president (as long as the president is pliable). This is just my opinion, of course and I hope I'm wrong......

[TahitiNut]

22. He won't be in the "chair" in January 2009.

I've said this before but I become more and more certain as time goes on that it's gonna happen - he'll be martyred before he leaves office. The political equation doesn't let me see anything else. He's an ENORMOUS loose cannon - an embarassment waiting to happen - when he's no longer on "brain support" and receiving heavy doses of narcissistic supply. He's far, far more "valuable" to the fascist right as a martyr. The guy's three suits short of a full deck. He just can't be let loose as an "ex-president." I vote for a padded cell for the rest of his life - if only to save his miserable life.

[Marr]

23. I honestly think he'd try to declare some kind of national emergency.

I still think GW Bush is basically a mascot for the broader Neocon movement, but he's not just a puppet. He's a small-minded man with a very big ego. Men like that don't just let go of power.