Which of the following do you believe is most likely to occur in 2006?

[saltpoint]

Poll question: Which of the following do you believe is most likely to occur in 2006?

The choices are abbreviated for space reasons on the poll slots, but suggest a crude prompt to what may happen to the Bush administration in coming months.

Your comments are encouraged after you vote.

TIA

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Option two should be in the past tense.

Seeing as how it already is chaos, civil war, and unmanageable.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Had to vote "all or some of above"

Sounds like maybe, just maybe, Fitz is closing in on Rove and the economy is likely to take a downturn due to high gas prices as well as the administration's unrelenting war on organized Labor, among other things. The Harris thing sounds great, but let's face it, it's just a pipe dream to think that she will ever come clean. Sounds good though. And I may be wrong (neither the first or last time), but I honestly can't see cheney quitting unless he has another heart attack. And even then, it may be hard to get him out. I think he is just too power hungry.

[saltpoint]

3. The Harris idea popped into my head just these last couple of days.

She just isn't looking like a happy camper right now, is she?

You're probably right on Cheney. He's ornery enough to stick around.

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. I dunno about Katherine Harris...

...Her campaign staff is leaving in droves. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060402/ap_on_el_se/florida_senate

She might never come clean, but if she has an axe to grind with someone (can you say Jeb, George, Dickie, and/or Karl?), she very well might spill the beans.

[saltpoint]

6. Yes. I hope she does, in a way. It would put a huge dent into the GOP

in Florida, for one thing. I'd like to turn that state a deep blue somehow, and this might be the fastest way to do it.

And Katherine would get her mug on the cover of NEWSWEEK.

[NewWaveChick1981]

11. LOL---If she makes the Newsweek cover, do you think...

...she'll buy a new pushup bra for the photo shoot like she did when Insanity & Colmes interviewed her on Faux? :P

[saltpoint]

13. You bet! Katherine knows fashion.

[moodforaday]

9. She's complicit, she'll never talk (nt)

[saltpoint]

10. Agree. Very complicit, in fact. In exchange for immunity, though,

it might be a REAL interesting interview.

[xchrom]

5. all or some of the above.

win, lose or draw in future -- iraq is/was bush's disaster.

the question is will he be held responsible for lying to get us ino this war?

harris might resign from the senate race -- but she'd never ''tell all''.

there's no avoiding a serious economic bump n the road -- but again with nothing but bush debt as far as the eye and your childrens eyes can see -- will he be held responsible for it?

hurricane? who knows -- my magic eight ball says ''future unclear''.

rove may protected by people we can't see clearly -- so again who knows -- maybe yes, maybe no.

[saltpoint]

7. You're right on the question of responsibility for Iraq.

It sure would be refreshing to hear the president and vice president own up to their grievous errors.

[xchrom]

8. or MADE to own up.

i can dream.

[madokie]

12. I liked the all or some option, I would have put it all or most

[saltpoint]

14. Hi, madokie. Yep. It could be a real bumpy year for the Bush folks.

[Squeech]

15. I say

options #1, 2, 3 and 8 are damn near certainties, 4 (Cheney) and 7 (Harris) unlikely to the point of fantasy, and 5 and 7 are good possibilities.

Cheney isn't gonna retire, he's gonna be wheeled out. Lust for power is his only reason for getting out of bed in the morning. If there ever were a man who actually sold his soul to Satan, it's him.

There are people who have left the BFEE's employ and spilled the beans, but the common denominator in those cases seems to be that they believed their job would have something to do with governance, and were dismayed to learn how politicized their job had become: Clarke was expected to tie 9/11 to Saddam so they could invade Iraq; DiIulio was expected to distribute money and favors to their allies in the religious right; the treasury secretary was expected to keep preaching tax cuts, etc. But none of the actual criminals who engineered all of the above have gone public, and probably never will (horse heads in bed, or worse).

If we do get a majority of either chamber, I expect subpoenas, and then I expect a Nixon-style collapse.