Cheney Resignation Watch --->>>

[Stephanie]

From Atrios:

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_atrios_archive.html#114006725610336430

Cheney Resignation Watch

The Shrill Bob Herbert says it's time for him to go.

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/opinion/16herbert.html?hp

It's time for Dick Cheney to step down — for the sake of the country and for the sake of the Bush administration.

...

Mr. Cheney is arrogant, defiant and at times blatantly vulgar. He once told Senator Patrick Leahy to perform a crude act upon himself.

A vice president who insists on writing his own rules, who shudders at the very idea of transparency in government, whose judgment on crucial policy issues has been as wildly off the mark (and infinitely more tragic) as his actions in Texas over the weekend, and who has now become an object of relentless ridicule, cannot by any reasonable measure be thought of as an asset to the nation or to the president he serves.

Anyone have a link to the full op-ed?

"blatantly vulgur" - so true!

[meisje]

1. It will be a warm day in Cheneyville before this happens

[Dr. Jones]

3. or a cold summers day in Texas...

n/t

[havocmom]

2. 'for the sake of the country and for the sake of the Bush administration'

is probably the line that put Whettington in ICU

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. I'm not a betting man, BUT...

...I've said it before, I'll say it again.

Cheney will either finish out his complete second term or will die in office of "natural causes."

No one's resigning.

Puffy little lie machine Scott McClellan? Depends on how much of a beating he's willing to take. As long as he's the willing punching bag for the "liberal media," his job's secure.

Zombie Chertoff, MAYBE, if the frying pan gets too hot.

But further up the ladder? No way, Jose.

[LiberalEsto]

5. He's not going to resign

Quitting would be an admission that he had done something wrong.

The only way I could see him resigning is for medical resons.

[Talismom]

6. I'd love it, but...DREAM ON!!!! n/t

[Merlot]

7. "For the sake of the bushco administration...

means that they want to put someone in the VP slot to run on '08. and if he does step down, he'll be still working behind the scenes like he does now. He won't be resigning in disgrase or anything like that, you can rest assured.

[gauguin57]

8. OK, I get yelled at every time I say it, but ... if Cheney resigns, we get

CONDI ... and I don't believe for one minute that she can't be elected president. I just don't believe that.

If she's vice president, and runs for president in 2008, and the Bushies and the top Repugs tell all the Fundies and Evangelicals and party faithful to vote for her ... that evil, lying woman could well be our president.

Talk all you want about how a black woman can never get elected in this country, how the Southern rednecks will react, etc. etc. The Repug machine knows how to do every illegal, low-down-dirty thing to get their person elected. If they want Condi in the White House, Condi will have a good shot at the White House.

The voting machines are still too iffy at this point.

And, if it's not Condi, the replacement Veep will be someone the Repugs are touting as the next prexy.

If Cheney resigns, we are one step closer to that day.

Cheney is the prince of darkness, but at least he won't run in 2008.

[Stephanie]

9. But Condi's got a secret.

She's not getting that slot, I promise you.

[Dunvegan]

12. Here in San Francisco I hear rumors that Condi is keeping a secret, also.

When I lived in Hollywood there were a lot of open and well handled "secrets" that the public at large didn't know about entertainers.

I wonder if the Democrats, if forced to run against Rice, would "go there."

How would this really impact her chances?

[Stephanie]

15. I think it would be vetoed internally by the repugs before it ever got out

They wouldn't take a chance with that.

[gauguin57]

14. Wait! I thought she was George Bush's girlfriend?

Now she's "got a secret?"

Oh, MAN! I'm so confused.

[CatWoman]

10. here you go, Steph

http://edstrong.blog-city.com/bob_herbert_bloodletting_in_the_white_housecheney_will_go.htm

[Stephanie]

11. thanks!

:hi:



This story is never going away. Harry Whittington is Dick Cheney's Monica. When Mr. Whittington dies (hopefully many years from now, and from natural causes), he will be remembered as the hunting companion who was shot by the vice president of the United States.

This tale will stick to Mr. Cheney like Krazy Glue, and that's bad news for the Bush administration.

The shooting and Mr. Cheney's highhanded behavior in its immediate aftermath fit perfectly with the stereotype of him as a powerful but dangerous figure who is viewed by many as a dark force within the administration.

***

Dick Cheney is a constant reminder of those things the White House would most like to forget: the bullying, the intelligence failures, the inability to pacify Iraq, the misuse of classified information and the breathtaking incompetence that seems to be spread throughout the administration.

Mr. Cheney would do his nation and his president a service by packing his bags and heading back to Wyoming. He's become a joke. But not a funny one.

[wicket]

13. Thank-you!!!

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