Did anybody see THIS? Cheney Blood Clot May Step Down????!!!

[debbierlus]

http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thisislondon.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-23387838-details%2FWill%2Ba%2Bblood%2Bclot%2Bforce%2BCheney%2Bto%2Bstep%2Bdown%2Farticle.do

This is bizarre. Looks like Mr. Cheney was JUST diagnosed today of a blood clot in his leg & may have to 'step down'.

Incredible timing, don't you think?

Sorry, if this is a dup!

[lisa58]

1. Blood clot is yesterday's news...

...he was back to work yesterday afternoon.

[babylonsister]

2. Yes. Word is leaking out...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3147990

[CJCRANE]

3. It's all about the timing.

Let's wait and see but this has been predicted for a long time on DU that Cheney would step down due to "health reasons".

[ShortnFiery]

4. Cheney will NOT leave office before 2009. He's addicted to POWER. n/t

[IndyOp]

10. I think he will step down - GOP needs a viable Pres candidate

in the VP spot - like Hagel - so they can give him power and campaign with "Don't switch teams during a war" theme. And/or so they can steal the next election and have less screaming - it is more plausible if they win if the person was installed as VP well before the election.

[lisa58]

15. I agree with the premise...

...but Hagel doesn't like the war either.

[IndyOp]

25. Call me cynical - but I am wondering whether Hagel's recent

anti-surge, anti-war, anti-Bush sentiments might not be - to some extent - designed to present himself as the viable Republican alternative to everyone who now hates Bush. I've heard Thom Hartmann say that Hagel was, at some point along the way, a G.H.W. Bush mentee...

:shrug:

[ShortnFiery]

16. You are assuming that George and Dick give a damn about the GOP when they're out.

:wow: If there's anything that we can bank on it's that these evil men only care about their fellow corporate crooks and increased power. If Dick goes, the position will be given to someone who'll reward the Military Industrial Complex and the wealthy at every given opportunity. Out of the present front running candidates, I don't even think Mitt fits that criteria.

Wait! Newt does fit in with Dick and George. :scared:

There ya go!


If Dick can't hold on, Newt will fill the VP slot until 2009.

[Sydnie]

19. Georgie has a library to fund

He NEEDS the GOP to fund it. Cheney doesn't need anything from anyone anymore. He has his nice little Halliburton payment. He's all set to step down and "lunch" with his neighbor Rummy.

[ShortnFiery]

20. I doubt that George cares much about libraries at all, with or without his name on the front door.

:rofl: :hi:

[rasputin1952]

24. I'm willing to bet if he saw his name over the door...

He still couldn't read it...:D

[Kikosexy2]

13. He'll ...

hobble on one leg if he has to...just to remain in power...Snarl!!!

[orleans]

5. ?? i heard yesterday, and heard he is just "fine". (crap!) n/t

[WI_DEM]

6. Libby made a deal--he'll take the fall in exchange for a financial package and pardon

but the pardon won't be until near the end of Bush's term. With an appeal he may not serve a day, if he does serve it will be in some kind of country club federal prison for a short time.

[debbierlus]

7. Sorry, just saw it today

[bdamomma]

8. sorry dick, you won't be able to wheel and deal with your

terrorists friends anymore, just send George.


The vice-president's travel schedule is likely to be severely curtailed in future.

[progressivebydesign]

9. Wow.. the timing. Hello VP COndi Rice!!!

They've SO been working that angle lately... "Rice said this..." "Rice thinks that..." Setting it up all along. Do they think we're stupid?

Saw my first Condi Rice for Prez bumper sticker last month.

[IndyOp]

11. Wow - you really think Rice? I was thinking Hagel... (n/t)

:shrug:

[Bucky]

22. Hagel? Are you crazy? No way they put an anti-neocon in there.

Hagel isn't only the strongest conservative candidate, he's also the neocons' worst nightmare. Look for a safekeeper, or maybe Giuliani. But if they put a current candidate in (which is unlikely) it'll cause major hard feelings throughout the party. I doubt they'd be that ballsy.

Gates is another possibility if they want someone to fill the Cheney vacuum, but who can still fly thru the Senate without much trouble. Barring that, they may go with some senior-but-safe political figure: Tom Ridge, Mitch McConnell, or even someone out of center field like Peter King of New York. If it's a senator, it'll be someone from a state with a Republican governor. Hell, it could even be Joe Lieberman (look on his works, ye mighty, and despair!), which would solve lots of problems for lots of people, but in the long run probably help the Republicans in 2008.

[Bitwit1234]

12. Well the bush administration is getting more and more scared.

They are worried bush and cheney are going to be impeached. That would allow Pelosi to take office. If cheney steps down, they can appoint (and hope congress approves them) another vice president. This way they would keep the presidency in the republican hands. That is the only reason cheney would give up his power.

[opihimoimoi]

14. Plausible for sure...must be going through their friggen minds

[HamdenRice]

17. My guess as to how Cheney cured his blood clot so quickly --

Last night he met "Doctor" Lucifer at a secure undisclosed crossroads location and promised him a couple of hundred more souls in hell, more carnage and death on earth, and once again his everlasting fealty to his underworld master in exchange for a quick fix.

[Bucky]

23. If Cheney has a blood clot, he probably will sue the doctor who....

... drained the orphans for their fresh blood. Honestly, such shoddy workmanship.

[dkofos]

18. Shit, with our luck libby will be the next VP

After bush pardons him

[rasputin1952]

21. The scenario has been played out before, a la' Nixon....

Nixon was getting into trouble, but the Agnew situation took some heat off him for a while. Agnew was just about to get slammed, so off he goes...the powers that be in the GOP, (the ones we never really hear of), made sure Ford, a serious moderate and all around nice guy, took the VP spot vacated by Agnew.

This set the stage for Nixon to leave under a pall of scorn and the pardon from Ford, was assured before Nixon left office. I believe Ford took the helm precisely because he was not such a polarizing figure in the GOP, and certainly was far from being a radical. He was also an honest man, perhaps one of the last we'll ever see w/that amount of power.

So here we go...Part 2: IF, and that's still a big "IF" Cheney steps down, the powers behind the curtain have worked their magic once again. Once again, a moderate will be found to fill the position, and the path will be open to dump bush. Oddly enough, this is not in the Dem side of power, but strictly GOP. The solution is to get rid of the bum w/the least amount of disturbance to the structure. The GOP big guns know bush has destroyed the GOP for perhaps 4-8 years, that's two election cycles. The will sacrifice power for a time, in the hope of regaining it in the future. The big guns won't allow bush to drag the GOP into turmoil and splinter off into various groups w/their own set of agendas...they don't want to become the Dem's...:)

I know this all sounds like :tinfoilhat: stuff, but remember, this is how it was done to get Nixon out of office, and if there is one thing the GOP knows how to do, it is learn how deal w/catastrophic consequences from poor decision making.