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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:51 PM
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What would it take to get Bush to resign the Presidency?
Edited on Fri Oct-17-03 09:04 PM by grytpype
Duhbya's finally taking some heat for his vile policies.

Do you think things could get so hot he will resign?

How bad would it have to get?

ON EDIT, let me clarify the question:

How bad would things would have to get to FORCE Bush to resign? To give him no real choice?
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tlcandie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:54 PM
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1. He will never resign... he was appointed by God ..
He will never say die, never give in, never go away... :( Just think about it, what else would he do if he did? It would be the ULTIMATE failure and he's failed at everything...biz venture-wise at least.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:14 PM
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13. He's the only person I know who fails upward.
Everything he touches goes to shit, but he gets rich out of it. He gets a promotion out of it.

Wait a minute. There's a couple other ones like say Dick Meyers, Mister in charge of Air Defenses on 911. Where the f**k was he and why did he get promoted for not being where he was supposed to be?

ARrgh, I gotta stop before I work myself up again.
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mlawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:54 PM
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2. I think he would agree before his handlers would.
They would NEVER allow him too, because then their game is up. Sometimes I suspect that he would be fine with going back to Crawford, so long as the "I can do no wrong" instinct were not set off.
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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:54 PM
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3. What if it turns out that he personally approved the outing of Plame?
Would he resign then?
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JackSwift Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 10:34 PM
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22. Of course he did
He is in charge and they went to a lot of effort to get this out. They had to float this by at least six reporters. That isn't done casually. This was something Rove came up with and ran past the Shrub and Shrub said, "sure, show those blankity blank bastards what happens when they fuck with me."
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:55 PM
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4. Sneak up to his bedroom at night
and speak in the voice of god, and tell him he did a good job, and it is time to go. "I have other plans for you!"
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Democrats unite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:56 PM
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5. He will never resign but...
Edited on Fri Oct-17-03 08:57 PM by Democrats unite
Can you say evil pretzel?
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:57 PM
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6. Whack His Pee-Pee?
:evilgrin:
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:57 PM
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7. When he realizes he can't win in 2004.
Edited on Fri Oct-17-03 08:58 PM by ih8thegop
When his popuoarity dipped in 2001, Osama was there to save him. This spring, Saddam kept him afloat.

He's running out of options. If he knows he can't win, he will do what's best for the GOP, and make Cheney President.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 12:01 AM
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26. of course he will win--the voting machines are rigged just for him
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DrBlix Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 12:23 AM
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27. The voting machines are rigged for Bush's replacement
They may heave ho Bush but the neocons will not give up the power.
.
Which begs the question who have they chosen?
.
Another question? Who are "they"?
.
They are the neocons driving the US into war with Syria and Iran.
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Someone posted in another forum that there is No candidate that hasn't been compromised. Broad statement that.
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This poster went on to say that the Israel lobby and power in this country which owns a huge percentage of the media and have many in powerful positions in the WH have the power to select Bush's replacement.
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In any case after watching Mckenny get trounced in Ga. and Hilliard in Alabama for taking a stand against more funds for Israel, it is evident that they swing a huge political club when it comes to elections.
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Any candidate that does not support Israel can never be elected in America today. A sad but true fact.
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MotorCityMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:00 PM
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8. Nothing, as he will never resign
Let's face it, he is completely incapable of taking responsibility for ANYthing. The latest is blaming the media filter for reporting only bad news from Iraq. This after having every action of his being fawned and glossed over ever since he started campaigning.

Plus, don't forget, he was chosen by God.
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Jester_11218 Donating Member (914 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:00 PM
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9. The CIA Leak
First off if the media spent less time investigating vital stories like Scott and Laci Peterson and maybe spent some more time on trivial stuff like the CIA leak and Dick Cheney's secret energy policy meeting lawsuits we would be talking about jail time instead of poll number as it relates to Bush and his PNAC pals!!!

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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:10 PM
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11. The media.........
has been so humiliated by the criticism for their lack of coverage that they are finally covering the screwups. I gave up long ago on the American media and read BBC, The Guardian etc. Thank God for shows like Mike Malloy.:kick:
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CityZen-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:06 PM
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10. Journalists Will Have To Be Journalists
The only way this vile, odious facimile of a human being will ever resign, is to have all his Faustian machinations exposed through the main stream media. But I must say, to have these so called journalists behave like free press journalists would be like asking dogs to mate with cats! For they can't see the truth past their BMW's and their upper middle class digs.
I hold this so called free media responsible for this Evil Empires ability to retain it's power over what use to be called America the beautiful! They are the traitors of democracy in every sense of the word.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:13 PM
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12. HELLO, McFLY
BUSH INC STOLE THE F***ING PRESIDENCY; THERE IS *NOTHING* THAT WOULD MAKE THEM GIVE IT UP.
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:19 PM
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14. The threat of impeachment made Nixon resign.
I doubt if Shrubya is that sensitive. I think the threat of prison though would do it. Just how one can effect this would have to be left up to the Constitutional lawyers. I do think there is a cause to explore treason here and violating his oath to uphold the Constitution.
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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:36 PM
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16. When all
the dirt surrounding him is exposed they will come to him as they did Nixon and show him the door. I hope the CIA was chosen by God. "Bad boy, Bad boy, when they come for you".
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 07:22 AM
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33. make him do time
in one of his own prizons, i'm sure that all the fine criminals he helped to lock away will be verry apriciateiveof his efforts to make them understand that being black is a crime
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dofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:32 PM
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15. Remember back in the summer of 2001,
when Bush wasn't getting his way on every little thing, and he was acting like a petulant, spoiled brat? There were rumors going around that he might resign, or do the equivilent -- sulk in Crawford until he got his way. He did spend an entire month there, and then 9/11 happened and we all forgot about his behavior.

There were also rumors back then that Cheney's health was so precarious that he'd resign, although that also hasn't happened. However, Cheney is followed by an ambulance every where he goes, so far as I can tell.
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LittleDannySlowhorse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:45 PM
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17. Bush is incapable of resigning
I've been sitting here trying to imagine up a scenario so horrific that W would resign the presidency rather than let the public get wind of it. Short of him getting caught by the entire DLC as he tries to disappear a dead, naked Malaysian 11-year-old boy hooker into the Potomac, I don't see it happening.

In any case, his supporters wouldn't bat an eye anyway. It could be revealed that Bush is bin Laden's gay lover and the Republicans would still somehow try to spin it that it's all the liberals' fault.
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5thGenDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:53 PM
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18. What would it take? Eleventy bazillion ding-dong-dillion dollars
"Eleventy bazillion ding-dong-dillion dollars?," says Dopey. "But I wanted some COKE!!"
"Eleventy bazillion ding-dong dillion dollars can buy lots of coke," replies Dopey's brain.
"Explain, brain."
"Money can be exchanged for goods and services."
"Woo-hoo!!"
John
Borrowing liberally (ahem) from "The Simpsons."
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moof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 10:12 PM
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19.  LOL LOL LOL, oh, this is a serious question?
OK serious answer,

moof is not saying that bush resigning would be taken as evidence that there is a diety, but it would definitely make the possibility worth some serious thought.

As long as your dreamin why not imagine what it would take for all the grave robbers & possible necrophiliacs from skull & bones to be convicted and sent to prison.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 10:29 PM
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20. You're kidding right?
To resign would mean for him to do something that he's not done before and that's admit defeat. He's incapable of doing that. He's failed upwards his whole life. This is the office he's entitled to and he's not going to ever resign.

He could be caught on tape sodomizing boys and it would be spun that he just loves kids.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 10:31 PM
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21. Civil War Vol II!
An Act Of Gawd!
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 10:36 PM
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23. Some patriotic soul leaking his Harken file at the SEC
He wouldn't necessarily resign, though. He might just lose the nomination in disgrace.

Bush must be hiding something in those files or he would simply instruct the SEC to release them. That much seems very certain.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 10:51 PM
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24. Coulter & Scarborough expressing doubt, then Faux News
calling for an real investigation into W's actions.
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quaker bill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 11:32 PM
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25. Not gonna happen - wouldn't be prudent at this juncture
I have more been wondering what it would take for him to do the LBJ and bail on 2004.

Resignation would take impeachment, only then might he do the Nixon bit.
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Loyal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 12:43 AM
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28. He'd have to
have an affair... with an intern.... and then the Republican congress acting out of principle would impeach him for his immoral behavior!

NOT! :silly:
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 01:10 AM
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29. The chimp could star in a hard core
bondage flick with underage girls and boys filmed in the Oval Office and broadcast during half-time at the Super Bowl and the repukes would come up with a million excuses for it - starting with "It's Clinton's fault."

For damage control Rove would arrange an interview with Brit Hume. Pickles would be at the chimp's side and while he would admit to "perhaps an error in judgment" he'd solemnly intone that this was between him and God and since God had forgiven him, Murica should too.

The next day the story would be forgotten. I truly cannot see any circumstances under which he'd resign.


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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 01:33 AM
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30. make him baseball commissioner
He won't resign unless there is a way to save face. As long as he can gratify his ego in the WH, he'll never go.

Now, if the RNC considers him a liability, it could get interesting. If that happens, they'll arrange some sort of safe passage out so they don't have to admit they dumped him.

I can see Republicans mounting a primary challenger to him. If he had to fight to win the nomination, he might be inclined to go.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 06:58 AM
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31. When God holds a press conference on FAUX and tells * his time is up.
n/t
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Fish Eye Donating Member (193 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 07:03 AM
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32. what are you smoking?
be real! :)
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