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They're bluffing unless Bush & Cheney resign
People are struggling to find a way to test the sincerity of the Bushes, but I think I've stumbled across the best guarantee they can provide. Here goes...
Bush and Cheney must resign immediately. No immunity, no pardons. Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes President, promising not to run for re-election on November 4. Her term will be one of the shortest in US history, just long enough to enact the provisions of the bill being proposed by the Republican administration. If it really is the best thing for the country and not a trick, then the Republicans, being impressed by the seriousness of it, would have to insist that Bush step aside and let the Democrats execute the plan. The entire Bush cabinet stays in office through January 20, but reports, of course to Pelosi. And that includes Paulson.
It's pretty simple. If they won't do it, we know they're bluffing.
If they will, I will give my support to the plan, even though I still don't know what will happen if I don't.
PS: Background for this post on Scripting News.
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I don't know that there is any salvation for the American people. If you look at the polls McCain is still almost even with Obama. Either there are still a ton of pure racists out there, or, more likely, the trend of Americans just not liking the smart guy has continued. I know of no other way to explain how Americans can still support a McCain candidacy. McCain/Gramm contributed mightily to this current mess. McCain was involved in the original S&L scandal that bore considerable similarity to this current mess. He wants to not only continue Bush's (and his) Iraq policy, which is costing billions of dollars per month and has had a direct impact on this economy, but has his eyes set on a catastrophic war with Iran, and even wants to get Georgia admitted to NATO.
I would like to just postpone this whole bailout bill until after the election. The world markets can wait that long. I don't trust anybody right now in this caustic political environment to do the right thing, not even Obama, really. I'm voting for Obama not out of ideology but because he's simply the smarter, more coherent candidate. It's the same reason I voted for Gore. Until Americans stop voting stupid people into the Oval Office, things will continue to spiral out of control. No more stupid presidents.
Or, just maybe the pollsters are obeying the laws and only calling landlines, rather than people with only cellphones, who make up a large percentage of Obama voters.
Nancy Pelosi would have to resign, too. The Dems would then have to elect Dennis Kucinich Speaker of the House. Then Bush & Cheney would have to step down so that the brief term of President Kucinich can steamroller everything he has ever wanted to do to recreate all we Americans have lost.
O, and Harry Reid must go, too, so that Wexler can work with the Kucinich Administration as Senate Majority Leader.
Resign? Why? At the end of this mess BUSHCO comes out stronger than when GWB took office, and almost everyone else comes out weaker. They're looking at their term in office as a resounding success and are savoring serving every last minute of it. Oil will be the single greatest asset on the face of the planet for the entire forseeable future, and turmoil will extend its reign.
Resign? Hell, they're going to be given two of the most lavish retirements in the history of the planet and, within the terms of their value system, they will have earned every penny of it. (And that's whether the "bailout" works or not.)
frankly i dont trust pelosi either. after we send the gop packing, pelosi and ried and the others should be next out the door. half-measures will not do. not this time. sorry. she is as good as the getaway driver. off the table indeed.
Here is a petition to sign - just for that purpose:
http://www.democrats.com/resign
Onward
This is a terrific idea. There is no precedence but Both Bush and Cheney could resign - it is within their right.
Extraordinary times, calls for ideas like this. But I don't think you could ever get Bush and Cheney to resign. They are already standing there dumbfounded saying, "it isn't our fault this is happening"
They're not dumbfounded.
They'll just never admit that they were wrong, or at fault, or that they lied.
That's what pathalogical liers do.
This will happen right after the snowball fight starts in hell, and from the insightful lips of Alice's Flo...When donkeys fly!
Who are these "people struggling to test the sincerity of the Bushes?" Have these "people" been living in an alternative dimension where there is such a thing as a sincere Bush? And, seeing as how the Dems have said "yes" to everything Bush has demanded, there's no proof a Pres Pelosi would do anything different.
No, here's the better deal: start reminding the "people" - the taxpaying ones, I mean - that Bush has handed the "friends" in his "base" who've robbed us blind, deaf and dumb at least $25,000 of their money JUST THIS YEAR, against the average taxpayer gross yearly income of $32,000.
Notice how no one - not Krugman, not Huff contributors, not FOX or CNN or the WPost - is breaking the costs down PER TAXPAYER... because, naturally, if they did, all hell might actually finally break loose.
But here it is, again: every $1 trillion of "taxpayer" money equals $8,000 PER TAXPAYER (rounded up,) and, so far, Bush has handed out at least $3 trillion (that we know about.) $25,000 apiece of our hard-earned pittance to some of history's most notorious criminal swindlers, none of whom are even being forced to return their stolen goods.
Um, didn't Bill Clinton sign S. 900 in 1999????????
Didn't Robert Rubin leave to then steer the new business into Citi??????
Didn't the Senate vote 90-8 in favor of S.900???
Didn't the House vote 357-54?
Why would Dems get a backbone now, instead of 2006?
VoteNader.org.
yeah, we'll vote for Nader, in December.
ummmm didn't the housing bubble start AFTER Clinton left office??????
Aren't we really dealing with a combination of reduced legally required regulation, AND booooooosh IGNORING the rest of the regulation?????
BRILLIANT!
I agree, the language still needs to be fixed on this...too scary/tempting.
But then we'd also get the feminist breakthrough so many yearned for! Forget Palin! LOL
Would we have to agree not to impeach or try them for war crimes?
I'd be willing to agree to that!
i almost like it. but, no blank check still. there must be agressive oversight
I was thinking that this could have a silver lining...
Lotsa luck with that suggestion! There is no way Bush would sacrifice his "legacy" for the good of the country. When has he ever done anything for the good of the country?
Ok...I can live with this. Actually, it's a shame it couldn't have been done before.
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