Reply #16: Bush impeached by Spring. [View All]

Over the holidays and the following months the string of embarrasing leaks will continue. However, unlike the previous 5 years, they will continue to be fingers pointing directly at Bush, like the recent NSA leak. This will focus all ire at this administrations wrong doing on Bush, giving what I refer to as the real power brokers a chance to duck and run.

PNAC has made great gains in its plans. Rather than go down in flames right now, it will patiently wait for its next future opportunity.

Cheney will have a health setback and will resign for that reason and "to spend more time with his family." This is his way to get out of the spotlight. He will disappear into his new estate in Marylands eastern shore and will not be seen again, publicly, for years.

Rumsfeld will get highly involved in Iraq. His plan is to win the Iraq war and thus achieve hero status and float above all criticism. Delusional. This will result in higher body counts on both sides as well as worsening the political/strategic status quo in that country.

Condi Rice, now freed from the requirement of doing PNAC's bidding, will actually be able to apply herself. Will all the claims that she is super intelligent and that Secretary of State is a perfect role for her turn out to be right? We might find out. I've not been impressed up to this point. But then again, I doubt anyone could make PNACs game plan look good.

Both Rove and Libby will see the writing on the wall with this NSA leak. They'll see blaming Bush as their potential get out of jail free card. Expect more shots of them driving into confessionals with Fitzgerald following the holidays, and a rush of reports as the investigation closes in on Bush.

The thing to pay attention to, in the following months, is whether the investigation narrows its focus to only Bush, or if it keeps its net wide. Will Fitz be too tempted by the big fish, or will he try to net the whole stinking mess? I dunno.

But, by Spring, it will be obvious that Bush is thoroughly toast. His whole mental picture is that people love him, that they are loyal and support him. They are his friends. The sudden, repeated, and targetted political backstabbing he is just starting to recieve will shatter that picture. ANd he is not equipped to handle that. The strain will devour him, and he will lose touch with reality. If his aides cannot convince him to resign, which I can't imagine him doing, he will become an obvious danger in the White House.

All this just before the '06 election season starts its swing? Bush will be a huge albatross around every single Republican Congressman and Senator in DC. Iraq will be aflame due to Rumsfelds meddling, and the various money laundering investigations will have numerous RW'ers in their sights. The Republicans are looking at a major distaster in '06. And if they fight against Impeaching a clearly unstable President who also, personally, ordered unconstitutional invasions of Americans? Dead meat, and another seat delivered to the Democrats.

Instead, they will portray themselves as heroes, who were willing to set aside political bickering and reach across the isle and invite even Democrats to do the right thing for the nation and all Americans and, regretably, remove this President from Office. They'll view it as a tragic necessity, and write ballads about the 2001 Dubya and how he martyred himself in the course of his White House duties, yadayada.

Impeached by Spring. That's my scenario.