News Orgs Working On Stories Tying Cheney Into Plamegate… Developing…

[Fleshdancer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/10/11/news-orgs-working-on-stor_n_8705.html

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are working on stories that point to Vice President Dick Cheney as the target of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name.


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I was starting to get impatient but if THIS is why the indictments are taking so long, then I will wait as long as it takes for Fitzgerald to do this.

[hippiechick]

1. .. and Cheney resigns so Chimpy can appoint who ? as VP ...

McCain ?
Jeb ?

... obviously it's going to be whoever they want to run in 08 ...

:puke:

[INdemo]

6. It will be McCain

..then winning back the White House in '08 will be a little more difficult

[lancdem]

12. No one with any 2008 ambitions

would accept the VP position in this corrupt administration; they'd be tainted. No way McCain becomes VP.

[liberalnurse]

14. Mcain won't give a shit....he's take it anyway he can get in.

[Fleshdancer]

I agree.

Republicans will be forced to distance themselves from this administration. I doubt McCain would be offered the VP position because he's not in the inner circle but if he was, it would be a stupid move for him if he still has Presidential aspirations.

[kestrel91316]

18. Nah. Gerry Ford was a failure at re-election in large part because

people were sick of Republican corruption and he was, after all, a Republican.

[INdemo]

8. well we are forgetting

.that he has to be confirmed by the House and Senate......but then with Repubs in charge I guess that doesn't mean anything...

[afdip]

2. good things come to those who wait . . . .

[applegrove]

3. Probably McCain and then Bush will resign "for health reasons" so

McCain can save the "brand". But only if Karl is indited. Then again nobody on staff and in power is going to advice Bush to put McCain in there because they know Bush's office would loose power. Perhaps they will put Condi or some other well known commodity/pliable person there. Another Miers.

[Fleshdancer]

7. I would guess Condi over McCain

Mainly because the neocons are going to want someone that plays nice with them. McCain isn't part of their inner circle and poses a threat to their power.

[applegrove]

9. Depends how badly the brand is damaged. If Cheney, Rumsfield &

Scooter, are out - Rove too - where are the neocons? They will want to lie low and then PNAC will come out with diatribes about how Bush failed and their "utopia" would have worked if Bush and just done things properly.

That still leaves people around Bush who are power-hungry.

If the neocons run for cover - having failed at everything they tried - then that leaves Norqhuest et all at the head of the GOP. Then the political arm can take over the WH - without any theory at all behind them. We cannot assume that Rove will be out if Cheney is the one who gets indited.

Very sad.

Too bad the election wasn't this year.

[mike_c]

10. I'm with you-- it will be vice president rice in a skinny minute....

This would actually solve some difficulties with finding a proper neocon successor to the BFEE.

[applegrove]

13. Don't remember what BFEE means and don't know if I agree with it.

Darn we need a table of acronyms.

[Carolab]

16. Bush Family Evil Empire. And we DO have a place for acronyms.

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/BFEE

[applegrove]

21. Wow - I'll have to explore more often. LMAO - I've been here a year -

never ventured to demopedia.

[longship]

11. Damnit! Bush would *not*, repeat *NOT* appoint McCain.

What universe have people been living in that they would think that Chimp would ever appoint McCain? Have they been asleep for six years or something?

The neocons would *never* ever appoint McCain as veep. It would be another neocon, not a professed moderate who has a rep as a free-ranger.


Remember last week's Iraq speech? Things are going great! We're winning. We've got to stay the course.

Response to Katrina. We really need the "death tax" repealed and we need more drilling in ANWAR.

These guys do not deviate from the manual, ever. The oceans could be boiling away and the sun could go supernova and they would still stick to the neocon instruction manual.

[enid602]

19. McCain

Bush would appoint McCain, if 'management' decides it is to be so. This would be 'management's' signal that the neo-cons are now out of favor. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing McCain taking over even the top spot, as an unfettered McCain might be able to bring some sense back into government spending. The big question, of course would be his handling of Iraq. I can see McCain getting caught up in the quagmire.

[longship]

22. We'd all love McCain at the head of the Republicans.

It would mean a revolution in that party, a complete overthrow.

That's why Chimp/Cheney/Rove would *never* ever appoint McCain to dog-catcher let alone veep.

There are dozens and dozens of neocons who are qualified and possibly even a bit stealthy about their beliefs who would make a better veep for the neocons. It will not be McCain unless they're ready to jump off the ship. Remember, these guys do not want to surrender power. Letting McCain become veep, and possibly pres, would be surrender power.

It ain't gonna happen unless McCain has been extraordinarily shrewd and the neocons extraordinarily naive.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. If Scooter goes down, then Cheney will too since it is hard to

imagine that Libby was out freelancing without the approval of the dark lord himself.

[Demobrat]

5. Oh please God please please please

I have been living for this. I don't even care about the sock puppet. Let him go back to his ranch and clear brush. I want the Halliburton PIG in CHAINS!

[Ioo]

15. Huffington Post Pisses me off, (Off topic Vent)

Damn, it was great for a while, now


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[CatWoman]

17. well, they have to pay their bills

in order for you to continue enjoying their free content.

[David Zephyr]

20. I've said here for a long time now that McCain will replace Cheney.

1.) Bush picks McCain to replace Cheney who resigns for health reasons.

2.) Bush pardons Cheney because "he has served our nation well after 9/11..."

3.) Quid Pro Quo: McCain's VP postion will seal the GOP nomination in 2008 and it is dependent on McCain promising to pick Jeb Bush as his VP thereby delivering Florida's electoral votes.

4.) McCain promises that, should it be necessary, he will pardon GW Bush.