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White House and Capitol Hill staffers contributed to The Washington Post's hatchet job on Dick Cheney and Sally Quinn today wrote a thinly-veiled opinion piece that suggests a GOP plan to have Cheney step down this summer for alleged health reasons (he's due to have his pacemaker replaced next month) and to replace him with Fred Thompson. Cheney's popularity is remarkably bad even without the Post piece, and the article does everything but hand Congress a portfolio of charges to impeach the Vice President.
It is known that the GOP is unhappy with their election chances and would love to have an electable vice president in place to help boost the GOP image in the minds of voters come next November. Cheney is increasingly seen as a liability and occupier of an office that would best be served by a high-profile GOP member who could use the office to springboard into the election. Thompson would give the Republicans a popular and prominent face in a discredited administration. With Thompson's popularity combined with GOP-sponsored Congressional measures to patch-up the Iraq situation in Thompson's name, the GOP believes it can turn around the abysmal election position they're dreading to face.
When articles like The Cheney Vice Presidency are written with so many cooperative, high-level, internal sources, it's usually because they have the tacit approval of their bosses. Something this damaging doesn't occur by accident and not in The Washington Post, which is used by those inside the Beltway as a modern Greek chorus; when you lose the Mandate of Heaven, you'll read about it in the Post before you know yourself.
Might depend on how certain the Republicans were that Cheney would not face criminal indictments upon leaving office. They clearly would not want the day-after-day drumbeat of legal proceedings dragging on in the media through Election Day...which they most assuredly would...
I don't know why Bush picked this guy in the first place. I'd laugh if he announced he was running for president.
Dick Cheney was the worst choice for a Vice President ever made. Way to devisive and his links to Halliburton should have disqualified him. But moron Bush picked him!
Even if Cheney put his halliburton stock in a blind trust and donates it to charity, it still looks bad.
White House and Capitol Hill staffers contributed to The Washington Post's hatchet job on Dick Cheney and Sally Quinn today wrote a thinly-veiled opinion piece that suggests a GOP plan to have Cheney step down this summer for alleged health reasons (he's due to have his pacemaker replaced next month) and to replace him with Fred Thompson. Cheney's popularity is remarkably bad even without the Post piece, and the article does everything but hand Congress a portfolio of charges to impeach the Vice President.
It is known that the GOP is unhappy with their election chances and would love to have an electable vice president in place to help boost the GOP image in the minds of voters come next November. Cheney is increasingly seen as a liability and occupier of an office that would best be served by a high-profile GOP member who could use the office to springboard into the election. Thompson would give the Republicans a popular and prominent face in a discredited administration. With Thompson's popularity combined with GOP-sponsored Congressional measures to patch-up the Iraq situation in Thompson's name, the GOP believes it can turn around the abysmal election position they're dreading to face.
When articles like The Cheney Vice Presidency are written with so many cooperative, high-level, internal sources, it's usually because they have the tacit approval of their bosses. Something this damaging doesn't occur by accident and not in The Washington Post, which is used by those inside the Beltway as a modern Greek chorus; when you lose the Mandate of Heaven, you'll read about it in the Post before you know yourself.
Oh my gosh, this is so exciting. Nonetheless, I must have guarded optimism as the Admin as managed to REALLY screw up out country and things don't look good.
Well, putting in a fellow like Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney may give them a leg up on the competition, and all Cheney would be avoiding is the lame duck period of the administration.
Could be a good party move if they can select the guy most likely to be the 2008 candidate.
I don't know why Bush picked this guy in the first place...
During the transition, Bush placed Cheney in charge of producing a list of candidates for VP. Seriously. I'm not making this up, and I'm not trying to be funny. Cheney is way too scary to ever joke about.
During the transition, Bush placed Cheney in charge of producing a list of candidates for VP. Seriously. I'm not making this up, and I'm not trying to be funny. Cheney is way too scary to ever joke about.
You are right about Cheney being in charge of Bush's Vice Presidential Candidate search, but I don't know about him "picking himself".
It is ironic that dummy Bush ended up picking that prick.
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Ironically, Cheney was the man Bush had tapped to lead his vice presidential search efforts. After three months of deliberations and "vetting" of potential candidates, Bush has chosen a trusted family adviser with whom he has already forged a close working relationship.
"I believe you are looking at the next vice president of the United States," Bush said Tuesday afternoon, as he and Cheney appeared side by side with their wives. "The person most qualified to be the vice president has been working by my side," Bush added of Cheney.
Bush, Cheney officially debut the full 2000 Republican presidential ticket - July 25, 2000 (http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/25/bush.vp/index.html - broken link)
Here is a better article about Dick Cheney being in charge of Bush's search for Vice President.
Bush picks Cheney for VP, Republican sources say - July 24, 2000 (http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/24/bush.vp/index.html - broken link)
Didn't he end up telling Bush that he had considered everyone on the list and decided that HE was the best choice?
Well, I think a pundit put it very well earlier today that when Bush was Governor of Texas he really didn't have a huge role in governing. The way their system is set up - the LT Gov actually does the majority of the heavy lifting. I think Bush knew he needed a "brain" to guide him. If I weren't so angry with how he's handled nearly every crisis presented to him (Katrina, homeland insecurity, iraq, afganistan (because of iraq), etc...) I'd feel bad for him. I'm too angry though.
I'm glad the Dems aren't pushing for impeachment of these fools. That can happen after they are gone. We have too many important issues to deal with in the meantime and the administration is so hamstrung at this point that they don't really pose any more of a threat.
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