IMHO the cabal in power will never allow him to get kicked out prior to the constitutionally-selected, minus a "live boy or dead girl" scenario. even if it means a show-down with Congress, somebody will make sure that any vote to impeach will go BushCo's way. there's too much money riding on it for them to let members of Congress muck things up.

yet i don't think they will be so brazen as to postpone his scheduled exit, either. i just don't think they'll be able to slip that one past, and it would be too much even for their own rabid base to accept. they need the base's money to keep their Congress-critters in office, ensuring the money-train of government contracts is protected.

them's my two cents.

Long Time no Tune . . . . . Until NOW . . .

Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars
Oak tree you're in my way
There's too much coke and too much smoke
Look what's going on inside you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Angel of darkness is upon you
Stuck a needle in your arm
So take another toke, have a blow for your nose
One more drink fool, will drown you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Now they call you Prince Charming
Can't speak a word when you're full of 'ludes
Say you'll be all right come tomorrow
But tomorrow might not be here for you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Hey, you're a fool you
Stick them needles in your arm
I know I been there before

One little problem that confronts you
Got a monkey on your back
Just one more fix, Lord might do the trick
One hell of a price for you to get your kicks
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyrics - That Smell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqsb9eDspBw

You live in the United States of Israel.... the super rich mans toy and the best country money can buy.

I voted for option 1, but in reality, by the time all the necessary forces get lined up, he'll be almost done anyway and people will look at the effort involved and just say "screw it, he'll be out anyway".

I'm thinking he's leaving before, but not because of impeachment. More like needing to get to the compound in Paraguay before the office stops protecting him from indictment.

John Dean has a particularly positive idea about how to approach the current unwillingness to impeach him in Congress. Having been researching very hard lately on a rogue agency under DHS; to wit: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), I have to say I hope they will start with Chertoff if they will at least have taken Dean's advice. That's some cold shit going on there, and hardly anyone is looking. I have the feeling that some older, better established, government agencies are looking, though, and I think it may be within their power to help Congress knock out the Nazis. I think, in fact, they will be avid to do this.

So. I say Paraguay before January 2009.

option 2. He will hang on till grim death. He is not a man to take hints.
Besides all the excitement of Cheney being inaugurated would kill him.
The next in line after that is a Democrat Sen Robert C Byrd.

actually, the next in line after the VP would be the Speaker of the House. in this case, that would be Nancy Pelosi.

this is proof bush & co lied their way into the Iraq War.

http://images1.americanp...s/2006/60min.320.240.mov

I see a resignation. About a year from now.

A pie-in-the-sky senario may be that that First Fart could be arrested in full public view while he's doing his last, very last State of the Union speech in early '07. He'd be arrested by a brave military general who'd finally work up the guts to arrest First Fart and his cohorts, which would be Big Dick sidekick, his mistress Rice and many others who'd have been involved with the illegal Iraqi war. I'd hope that there'd be a Special Forces break-in into the Congressional bld where the First Fart would be doing his annual BS State of the Union speech.

But who do we choose to replace all thos bastards? That's the problem. I'd choose Ron Paul as a new, temporary leader in such chaotic times, but most people don't really know about him, so likely, if this improbable senario would happen, that there'd be more "wrong" people selected to "lead" this country---in other words, "leaders" would be selected by the elites who really run this country (the "elites are the true owners of the banks of the Federal Reserve system) to "serve" (serve the elites, not the sheople) the country until "legit" (i.e. DREs) elections are run with the elite-chosen "leaders" being "chosen" to "lead" the sheople.

No matter how things turn out, the outcome in nearly any senario would not favor the People by any means. It so totally sucks that our government has been so seriously usurped by the corporate bastards. It sucks to have so many sheople fall asleep at the switch. Some are awake or awakening, like the ones who read Brad Blog, but how do we translate our democratic desires into reality when the larger realities of a massively disinformed public is in no position to competently choose the right (as in favoring the People) leaders to help us make the right kind of macro-choices to help all of us make better micro-choices?

I'm thinking that, realistically, the First Fart will somehow hang on to his Presidency to the bitter, bitter end, at which only his wife and his dog would be his steadfast supporters--everyone else will have abandoned him, including his wild daughters.

Mark my words on this: the next President will be the Terminator Governator, Ahnold, no less. I predict that he'd be a last-minute candidate and that he'd go on a whirlwind tour around the country with the media stirring up a media frenzy in support of him, just like what happened in the recall election that happened in California. Schwarzenegger will be the very last President, hence the term, "Terminator President". He's being groomed for this role and I just about guarantee that he'll run and "win" the Presidency. He'd be the "perfect" antidote to the emasculated idiot President, but, in reality, Schwarzenegger will likely drive in the final stake in the heart of America and kill her.

Just search this: " Lucifer Time Code " and read the part 1 and part 2 versions of this bone-chilling narrative about Ahnold and our possible collective futures.

I tend to think he'll resign also. The Republicans have never really liked the guy, they just use him because he does everything they want. I don't think they would stick with him through an embarrassing impeachment.

The "R" Word . . .

Bill Clinton locked in my respect and admiration durring his impeachment. I was so impressed with how well he handled the constant abuse from the entire gop (greedy old perverts) syndicate, especially at it's climax . . . the underserved impeachment!

I voted for the first option, mainly because I believe that eventually the repigs will realize what a liability he is and will force him out. And then, as 99 predicts, it will be off to Paraguay to cower for the rest of his natural, well, not natural actually, freakishly monstrous life. As for the gropenfuhrer, there isn't nearly enough time to move a constitutioal amendment through before 2008, thank goodness.

I voted for after his scheduled departure date. For 2 years I have said Bush will not give up his position as King. However, I pray I am wrong and after Democrats won both houses, I am far more hopeful he will not stay.
Bush has made a Presidential career of implementing the absolute worst case scenarios, IMHO. It follows he would therefore refuse to leave at the end of his term.
Best wishes to All for the Holiday Season! DaveM

Hilarious Link

I voted option two. The question was not what I wanted to happen, but rather what I think will happen.

The question did not contemplate the unforseen, and so I am in the middle, wishing option one would happen, so long as The Dick Cheney went out with the blush.

The only chance of option one being the reality, however, is if the powermoney republican party of the middle, such as Jim Baker, come together and give preznit blush and The Dick an ultimatum. And tell them that they will join the dems in an impeachment effort if they do not get real.

If they do not listen then the republican party is going to be destroyed by blush-cheney. The republicans will loose the '08 presidential election and loose more seats in the senate and house if the blush-cheney neoCon doctrines continue to guide US foreign policy.

The signals of a military build up are a sign that blush-cheney are telling the moderate republicans to stuff it.

These things move so slowly, however, that it is quite doubtful impeachment will evolve within two years.

More likely that the dems will investigate, subpoena, and expose the regime. The public will really stick it to the republicans in '08 because the neoCons can't understand plain english.

I believe that he'll be out fairly soon, but not because of any impeachment. I believe that there will be a veiled coup d'etat, although I don't know how it will be handled.

I don't think the Democrats will take the lead or even be involved. The current civilian power structure knows full well that if Dubya stays around for another 2 years they are doomed, and the current military power structure knows that we won't have a functioning army if he stays around for 2 more years.

They'll get together and act. We won't know it's coming until it's over. I think Dubya has been given a deadline---he has until the State of the Union speech to shape up or he's out, and Cheney with him.

Has anyone been following up on the current Iraqi oil industry?

I read one report that the oil is being shipped by tanker truck instead of pipelines.

It goes to the undercover market. Wanna bet that the CIA is in on using bootlegged oil to supplement their already secret budget?

Des, #1 - kudos to you for digging up the Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards quote. Dem. Edwards stated that he wouldn't lose to Repub. Dave Treen in the governor's election unless they "caught him in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." Edwards is now in Federal prison. His opponant in his last election - '91 was in jail but was most recently seen in Iran at a Holocost denial conference. His name? David Duke. Ah, Louisiana. I've been gone from there 11 years, but I still miss it, just for the electoral entertainment.

Mozart, #10 - Fortunately it's against the Constitution to have a foreign-born prez...

shw

Yeah, Dredd, good point! And let's not forget that the "authorities" somehow overlooked the concept of installing meters on the pumps, so, well, go ask BartCop what he thinks...

I voted for Chimpy's early exit - almost entirely wishful thinking, but I am not ruling out Chimpy's potential for a complete meltdown....

Filthy little prick has had a free ride from MSM - but even they are beginning to hold him accountable for his bullshit....he will NOT hold up under any sustained pressure for answers or accountability...

Waiting on the meltdown....

Has anyone read the Iraq Study Group's report?

I downloaded it and have read thru it.

It is as well-reasoned in many aspects as any report could be on Iraq.

I have said for a long time on this blog that the Iraq "war" is a pile of shit which the preznit blush and The Dick cannot make to smell Borat good.

I gag at the neoCons who are always telling us how good it smells.

The report of the ISG makes clear that the Iraq debacle is in fact just a pile of shit stinking up our American heritage.

He's in waaaaaay over his head and he's starting to figure that out now.

I predicted before his selection by the SCOTUS that he'd go two terms but run away from home before eight years were done because he'd screwed up the entire planet and made his mommy and daddy really mad.

I picked #3 because just prior to his scheduled exit, we will have "another Pearl Harbour" incident mysteriously materialize, he will declare martial law and keep the white house in the bush real estate portfolio for at least a bit longer. At that point, Congress may actually act on impeachment.

Dig it, Jack - I think he's gonna set off a dirty bomb on an LNG tanker in Boston Harbor - liquidate all those pesky blue states up there and let the effete Europeans eat the fallout! Best of all possible worlds. But what scares me is the implied "trifecta" link - that's only two payoffs...

Great pic, Brad! Kudos! And thank you for not doing that with the Ray Lemme pics. Let's make a resolution to get to the bottom of that can o' worms in 2007. It still makes me cry when I think about what happened to him. Every time you run a photo of Thor...

When you look in his eyes, you see he's already left. W has left the building.
Therefore I suspect he may find a way to make it official, though his pride and his followers are propping him up.
That's a psychological view, not a political one.
It will take a strong country to get through this man's disastrous reactions to his personal drama in life. They ignited a world of vengeance and hate (ever-ready to ignite under bad leadership) and the world has suffered terribly as a result. But history is full of stories like his. Babies are born and beauty is created and a future lies ahead anyway. That is what people are beginning to understand in connection to each other all over the world (in cyberspace like this) and they will work with each other for mutual truth and eventual peace.

Dredd No.18 Very astute, Sound like the repug M.O. !

Agent99 No.5 Ya, better he clear brush and shovel shit down there than up here . . .

I voted 3 times . . . . . Only Once . . .

I voted "Prior," but this may be wishful thinking on my part. I really can't bear the thought of having this nitwit running our country for two more years.

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

- Tom

Dredd says:

"Has anyone read the Iraq Study Group's report?

I downloaded it and have read thru it."

WOW! Don't you have any Christmas shopping to do??? SHEESH!!!

Sooooooooo................

Are we all chipping in, and getting "Lord Monckton" a Christmas present, Brad???

He's never leaving. Bush and his neo-con handlers do not care about the Constitution. The gov't rountinely violates our Constitutional rights.
They violate the 1st Amendment by caging demonstrators and banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon. America Deceived (book)
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns during Katrina.
They violate the 4th Amendment by conducting warrant-less wiretaps.
They violate the 5th and 6th Amendment by suspending habeas corpus.
They violate the 8th Amendment by torturing.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting 2 illegal wars based on lies and on behalf of a foriegn gov't.
If he didn't leave after all that, he's not leaving.

Big Dan #30

But what if I am Jewish? Happy bigdannuka!

Option 3...simply because he will use his executive privilege (power) to determine that at a time of war, changing the president is too dangerous for the country.

Alan

Wasn't it Doug E who said Alito would have a good effect on the Supreme Court?

This link tells me otherwise.

It won't be too long until The Dick is on the stand under oath in the Libby case.

It is anyone's guess whether that will happen before The Dick and preznit blush want to invade Iran.

Iran helped the US in Afghanistan, has offered a peaceful approach on Iraq for years, was rebuffed, and is now winning the PR wars in that region.

A vote for preznit blush and The Dick is a vote for terrorism.

JUDGE OF JUDGES #12

I'll never forget that party on the day of Clinton's impeachment when they were having with a big pot of chili. The American people knew the Republicans really impeached themselves that day.

Clinton only broke once during that whole thing and said that Rush Limbaugh could "say anything he wants". Other then that, he ran the country beautifully with Gingrich throwing pipes into his spokes the whole time. Gingrich is a sloth!

Gary #17

I like that scenario a lot!

Support the troops indeed!

Tomorrow Progressive Talk Radio on the dial in Boston . . . . . OVER AND OUT, GONE . . .

WTF!

Wishful thinking hopes gw will be gone BEFORE his term ends. However,you have to remember the logic(?) of these neocons - bad is a good thing and wrong is right. In their thinking, war is a good thing. Makes key people much richer and to them that is all that counts. They respect the dollar (bottom line) not the Constitution or people. People are just a means to the end. Sorry to be so negative folks, but this is reality. I was sorry to hear that Pelosi stated that "impeachment" isn't even on the agenda. I have completed so many impeachment petitions as others have also, maybe she will realize that is the will of the people.

I am with you Charles F # 32, he won't be leaving UNLESS the Republicans decide to grow some... They, the Democrats, with a few exceptions, and the Republicans, don't want impeachment because they don't want the American people to know that 9/11 was "allowed" to happen to give them that "great opportunity" , as Rice said, to ivade Iraq.

The only Democrat I had any faith in , Rep. Conyers has gone back on his word regarding impeachment, or has been silenced so there is no hope . IMHO

Iran is next...

Cheer up, GWN - With "impeachment of the table," Mr. Conyers will pursue "oversight," and at some point in the various investigations, will say, with due gravitas: "No one could have anticipated that these investigations might lead to impeachment." We will all then ROTFLOFAO, the nation can go through its obligatory catharsis, and we can all resume our happy lives in Pepperland!

Dredd: Happy BigDannuka: I LIKE the ring of that! Is that anything like "Festivus"???

czaragorn #42

I don't see how the Republicans can continue to play the game after Conyer's starts to bring in the witnesses.

I get hundreds of letters a year asking for financial help for this or that. Not ONE of these organization's causes wouldn't be helped by the impeachment of these corporate raiders. They should all pool their efforts for impeachment as soon as the crap starts to hit the fan!

A coalition of the MORE THEN WILLING!

Dredd #35

My, but don't they look nice in their matching red ties?

Impeach Bush. Impeach Cheney. After their convictions and removal from office (loss of immunity from prosecution) bring charges of treason against them. After that, begin the war crimes tribunal. Bring charges of treason, war crimes and any related criminal charges against Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Pearle, Hadley, Ashbrook, Chertoff, and the rest of the mid-level cabalists. Bring charges of treason against Hastert, DeLay, Boehner, and the rest of the GOP insiders. Bring election tampering, voter intimidation and related charges against Rove, Ken Mehlman and the other GOP party apparatchiks who repeatedly undermined free and fair elections in this country. There is ample evidence to accomplish all of these prosecutions. Consider this necessary to cleanse the political process of the stench resulting from years of corruptible Republicans and Democrats nakedly pursuing power at all costs.

Now, all we need is a public with the courage and moral fiber to pursue these prosecutions and to remain vigilant against efforts by men and women of undue influence to undermine these efforts. Oh, and a mass media that remembers its duty to the nation.

How could we loose the war . . . . . When so many ceo's made a KILLING . . .

Option number 1. Impeachment would be nice, but I think the man's going to crack. The divergence of reality and Bush Jr.'s stupborn pesonal beliefs will come to a head eventually. He is betting the Motherload on blind faith in Iraq, and when things continue to spiral out of control his stress levels will snowball. Add to that the incerdilbly complex and tragic prediciment America finds itself in - and all the pressures of having no good choices for the "Decider" to make and you have the recepie for a total meltdown. That's not even considering the stress to come from investigations about pre-war intelligence tinkering (lying) that will inevitably come home to roost. Bush doesn't have great coping skills (outside of denying reality) at the best of times. When sh*t really hits the fan I expect to see some unceremonious departure of a disgraced President. Ofcourse, there will be some spin applied to try to blunt the failure, but that will only half work for a short while.

I picked the 3rd option.
Having failed to steal enough seat to maintain control and with increasing Military dissent, very possible damaging Congressional hearings and the MSM finally finding their collective Journalistic Pen, I think the Bush Regime will most likely attack us again ala 911 and the Anthrax mailings. Things have not being going well for PM Olmert either. I predict an attack anytime. Nothing like the "Holiday" season to pull peoples heartstrings and instill fear.

A low Nuclear yield weapon to be used on St. Louis is my best guess. Let's not fall for it again.

Peace.

Sadly (Maybe because I am a veteran) I choose #2
I don't think he'll be removed from power by both the house and the senate, or a service member sworn to protect the constitution. Very sad, I hope they GROW SOME, but it's what I think.

To JOJ.
I like the Lynard Skynard.
Check out
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Lost Highway)
I ain't specifically Christian, but it's appropriate.
(For those in Sacramento, you can watch it at midnight Jan 6th @ Midnight CH 18. plug. plug. plug.)

By The way "HUMAN",

The corporate mainstream media has NOT FOUND THEIR PEN.
ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and even PBS have NOT broken their

MEDIA BLACKOUT
on
ELECTRONIC VOTING FAILURES.

Just a friendly FYI. Love to all I hope that 2007 kicks some ass.

George Bush is losing his mind. Even Joe Scarborough admits this. Mike Barnacle actually said Bush was "delusional." Apparently the press has thought this for a long time. The rumor has been around that Bush is not of sound mind.

How long can this go on? The leader of the free world, who has the power to annihilate mankind with the press of a button, is delusional? I think he's mentally unbalanced, and probably drinking or on medication.

He must be removed from office and locked up. We can't let al blatant liar and a war criminal remain in power.

It's time to investigate, prosecute, impeach and jail bush cheney rice rumsfailed and others. If we don't we are setting the bar for a far worse future administration. It's not a choice, it's our civic duty to protect our rights!

I sincerely hope that he leaves on his last day or sooner, though I don't have much expectation for sooner --- too many ballless poll-watching politicos in the Congress.

The 2008 election season will be quite interesting, and then they will give us MORE OF THE SAME. The 2006 mid-terms were an accident of "not stealing quite enough" because they misunderestimated how much their base hated higher gas prices and the war.

They have removed 5 Million solid dems from the voter rolls, and will probably work extra hard to remove 5-10 million more in the next 2 years. They still control the electoral process. The media are still lap dogs; they do seem to be barking a tiny bit, but they have no bite or any desire to speak TRUTH to power (Kieth Olberman excepted).

Folks, we need to work VERY hard in the next 2 years to prepare for the VERY worst, because that is what they are going to shove down our throats.

Charlie L
Portland, OR

P.S. Brad, why don't you work on keeping this site "The Premier Blog on Election Reform" and not dillute it with anything else. It's a BRAND --- you own it --- GO FOR IT! KOS will never have it. HuffPost will never have it. DN will never have it. You ALREADY have it! Don't squander it.

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