Cheney is the final sacrifice???

[RedEarth]

FINAL SACRIFICE. For all the talk in the '90s about how Bill Clinton epitomized the self-absorption of the Baby Boomers, the current White House occupant has magnified Clinton's failures by several orders of magnitude. All must be sacrificed to George W. Bush's whim, his need to be right, his desire to find now the affirmation and self-regard that so painfully eluded him before his 40th birthday.


All of which is preview to this prediction: Dick Cheney will be sacrificed. The Libby trial currently underway is certainly part of his whacking (to use Eugene Robinson's Sopranos metaphor from today's Washington Post column). But the story seems to me larger than trooping various White House officials into court to narrow the culprits in the Plame leak episode to Cheney and his close confederates.


Cheney is the final sacrifice -- the last layer between Bush and the disapproving public, the skeptical media, and the angry Democrats. In one sense, having him there has always provided Bush a human (and humanizing-by-contrast) buffer against the hordes who oppose him and his policies. To sacrifice Cheney is therefore to have sunk to but one level above the very bottom, the core of the presidency itself. When Cheney goes on television, as he did last week with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, proclaiming the Iraq war a success, he demonstrates that he is either (a) unhinged from reality; or (b) playing a willing role in his own, inevitable discrediting and marginalization.

Under either scenario, his neck is moving slowly but inevitably toward the noose. Somebody, after all, has to pay for the complete collapse of the Republican majority and the conservative agenda. And since Bush himself has never paid the price of his own failures in life, it is Cheney who will pay for them next.

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2007/01/post_2618.html#015296

and from Steve Gillard's newsblog........

Even without the Libby trial, and I csn't imagine him keeping his job if he testifies, Cheney is a very sick man He has fallen asleep in public. Part of his dogmatic nature is due to his ill health. He is on at least 10 different drugs for his heart and related illnesses.

It is a shock he has lasted this long.

However, if Cheney goes, Bush will be soon to follow. He has been his buffer.

If Cheney is eased out, be sure that health will be the cover.

I think when people start investigating, the conspiracy to hide Cheney's health problems will stun them.

http://www.thenewsblog.net/

[burythehatchet]

1. Our Bill Casey

[Contrite]

2. I am absolutely sure this is correct.

And I am sure Cheney knows it, too.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. Cheney will not go gently . . .

. . . he's determined and batshit crazy.

[xxqqqzme]

8. I agree darth won't sacrifice quietly.

He has worked his entire political life for where he is now. The only reason he is VP is because he knew he could never win a national election, so he found the perfect puppet, then set himself up as the puppet master.

I think darth was Fitz's target all along.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

12. Yes.

[C_U_L8R]

4. how did Rove squirm out of it?

Remember all the hubbub and panic.. it almost seemed
certain Rove was gonna fall.. and then .. nadda. What happened?

[babylonsister]

5. Cheney is wagging this dog, make no mistake.

The whole admin is about to be sucked down in my most vivid dreams. They are all guilty of so many things! RE: Plame, the only name that hasn't surfaced is the blivet's. Hmmmm. He knew nothing? That either is a lie or makes great sense.

[MadMaddie]

7. Yes and that is why the timing of the supposed leak of the Iranians being

involved in killing five of our soldiers is suspicious.

This is their last attempt to hold back the masses..but they do not have the support of the American populace nor Congress.

2007 is the year my friends to watch this pathetic spectical of an administration go down like the Titantic.

[paparush]

9. DING DING DING! We have a winner.

The Iranian headlines of today/tonight are classic Cheney / Rove.

[Mz Pip]

16. Boy that cried wolf.

That's what's going on here. Nobody believes these creeps anymore. Maybe there is a threat but they have played the fear and terro card so often than no one will buy it.

Cheny won't resign. He'll just keep spewing his venom and self righteous blather. He'll call us all traitors and enemy sympathizers if he doesn't get his own way.

I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to take over the presidency. He'll claim Bush has lost it and is delusional and demand that the 25th amendment be invoked. :scared:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

14. I just assumed it was a lie . . . but . . . maybe he didn't know!

Darth and Rummy give him cookies and milk and make sure he's tucked in bed by nine!

This is so surreal . . .


:popcorn:

[Canuckistanian]

6. That would presuppose that someone is higher than Cheney

And that's just hogwash.

[bdamomma]

10. is that noose big enough for rove? isn't he subpoenaed also?

[MadMaddie]

11. Yes my friend, yes he is....Turd blossom is probably linked in this

somehow.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. I don't see it. Cheney is way too arrogant to ever allow himself to be

"sacrificed" unless he was forced out. Plus I think he's basically running the show anyway.

[Buck Laser]

15. I'd prefer "next" to "final" sacfrifice...

[jpgray]

17. Cheney is Rowsdower?

[tservo]

18. Cheney isn't Canadian n/t

[frogcycle]

19. "Under either scenario, his neck is moving slowly but inevitably toward the noose."

is it just too, too ghoulish of me to hope that the rope is too long?

[frogcycle]

20. did I gross everyone out, or

does everyone agree - or does everyone have me 'blocked?'
I really expected a firestorm from that crack! :)

[TorchTheWitch]

21. ghoulish yet practical

After all, if the rope wasn't *ahem* sufficient in length *cough* who would ever believe he was really dead?

Edit to add: not that I wish death on the ogre (although for his sake *cough* perhaps Mother Nature would be kind to step in sooner rather than later and relieve him of his apparent extraordinatry health issues *cough*).