Prediction: The Bush Presidency will end just as it began

[dave29]

A lot of lawyers, a constitutional crisis, and a supreme court, owned by this President, put on the spot to decide whether or not it will ever be relevant again.

[Toots]

1. I sort of suspect you may be correct

It is a scary thought is it not. Bush*'s hand picked judges being the ones to decide whether the Constitution is a valid piece of paper or not..

[Nimrod2005]

2. I agree. I am hoping there will be some kind of situation at the White House

When asshole is scheduled to move out or scheduled to be taken out by DC police to get booked for the many crimes he committed. I imagine him and Dick holed up somewhere in a basement refusing to come out!!!

:rofl:

[UTUSN]

3. Yes, but different description: Cloud of illegitimacy, LOW polls, uncertainty.

A whimper not a bang.

[emlev]

25. Another piece of the puzzle

Is at this link.

[Venus Dog]

4. Totally agree

This bunch of criminals have always hidden behind on-the-take lawyers & judges. I said from the beginning, that this was one of their main goals - to take over the judiciary - so they would never be prosecuted. They almost did.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Assuming they're going to get away with it,

maybe we should start thinking in "Risk" terms and try to figure out their strategic move?

[johnaries]

14. One word - Iran.

edit to add: Yes, I believe that he'll hit Iran. With the US in 3 major Mid-East countries, other Mid-East countries will join in. Then NATO and other countries will have to get involved with all that oil at stake. Then, WWIII.
I hope I'm wrong.

[knight_of_the_star]

19. I doubt we would have that much help

The other ME countries would probably cheer us on but that would be about it, the Saudis use us as their protection, Syria wouldn't do squat to help us, Israel might lend air support if that, Egypt wouldn't jump in, and the smaller ME countries wouldn't do squat. That and I doubt NATO would jump in with us, they have no obligation to do so and would not have the popular support to do anything.

On the other hand, lots of Russian and Chinese "volunteers" might suddenly beef up the Iranian military in such a situation.

[Kahuna]

5. I agree too.

:scared:

[William769]

6. Theres the money shot!

[francislholland]

7. It doesn't seem as though he will be impeached. n/t

[emulatorloo]

8. I think you are right. Recommending. n/t

[Perky]

9. So long as it ends.

[EST]

10. The bush limosine parade was "egged"

when they arrived to install themselves into our government.
It would not be too much to expect the same sentiment when they leave, however they leave.

[nolabels]

22. I was thinking of futures in the egg market myself !

Sad and pathetic is of little matter to me, i just hope his petulance lasts the rest of this term so everybody has the possibility of despising him equally :shrug:

[glitch]

12. I see them escaping from the roof of the White House via helicopter bound for Paraguay.

And I see Paraguay not letting them land.

[formercia]

13. If they get that far... n/t

[glitch]

15. True. They may decide to retire to their underground bunkers instead. Probably more appropriate. nt

[loudsue]

16. There was a re-run of the movie "The Interpretor" on HBO last night.

Nichole Kidman and Sean Penn....really good movie. At the end, the bad guy president from a country in Africa gets sent, by the U.N., to the International Criminal Court at the Hague to be tried for crimes against humanity.

I told my husband: "Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld should be sent to the Hague & tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity." I REALLY wish there was some deliberative body with teeth (which leaves out our congress) that could get these assholes tried.

:kick:

[smoogatz]

17. Well, his best presidential exit strategy at this point

is certainly to stonewall, drag his feet, claim executive privilege, use his clemency powers whenever he has to, crank up the rightwing shriek-o-sphere, and litigate every subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court--to not do so would lead very quickly to his impeachment, IMO, if not his conviction in the Senate. It's likely he'll be able to run out the clock--561 days isn't all that long, in legal-system time (though a great many judges were willing to speed up the process in Clinton's case, if memory serves). I fully expect Cheney to resign or be impeached before it's all over, though, and I expect that Bush will take the unprecedented step of pre-emptively pardoning most of his cabinet and himself before he leaves office. But I think ultimately he'll go quietly (if not meekly), and it may be that the wiser course of action will be for Congress to let him do so.

[Independent_Liberal]

23. If Cheney resigns, Bush will be on his way out not long after.

My prediction: He's not going to be president come January 1, 2008. Neither will Cheney.

[Sir Jeffrey]

18. I just always assumed it would end that way nt

[Annces]

20. I feel like we don't have a real government anymore

and whoever takes over will have to build it from scratch.

[cascadiance]

21. And even if he has house arrest like President Logan of 24 did, he'll leave life LESS honorably...

... than Logan did on the show this year!

[L. Coyote]

24. Can Bush v. Gore be reversed?

[KAT119]

26. Anything is possible in establishing the TRUTH of the criminal

2000 'Election'. The facts are all out there now that Al Gore in fact legally won the presidency B/4 a Rethuglican Coup d' Etat!!!