Wednesday, July 18, 2007
What if....2008 came and there was no election....?
Here’s some excerpts from an op-ed in The Toledo Blade. It mentions, toward the end, one of my little unplesant fantasies, that the current junta will figure out a way to stay in power past 2008. A “terrorist attack” or some sort of national security “crisis” would give them the excuse.
What would anyone do about it? Take to the streets? Right. Stones against Humvees, uh-huh. Arrest the president and vice-president? Who? How? Congress would shit and make all kinds of threats, but in the end, they’d sputter and spew and not do much.
© 2007 The Blade. Back to: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070718/OPINION04/707180321 Article published July 18, 2007
Vice president hurts GOP's chance to retain White House
Dan Simpson, a retired diplomat, is a member of the editorial boards of The Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
THE DECISION of President Bush to keep Dick Cheney on as his vice presidential running mate in 2004 may have been the worst thing he has done to America.
***
Instead, Mr. Bush and the rest of his and Mr. Cheney's loyalists are continuing to hardline it with the same lies and fear-mongering they used to get us into the war in the first place. More practical Republican candidates whose seats will be at risk in 2008 are either jumping ship or drinking.
***
There is also the late-at-night, eerie concern that Mr. Bush has in his head some sort of scenario where, for reasons of national security - real or drummed up - the 2008 elections will have to be postponed and he will get to stay on.
My suspicions have at their base the feeling I have that, given their operating style now, this bunch will not leave the White House easily in 2009.
***
Dan Simpson, a retired diplomat, is a member of the editorial boards of The Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
What would anyone do about it? Take to the streets? Right. Stones against Humvees, uh-huh. Arrest the president and vice-president? Who? How? Congress would shit and make all kinds of threats, but in the end, they’d sputter and spew and not do much.
© 2007 The Blade. Back to: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070718/OPINION04/707180321 Article published July 18, 2007
Vice president hurts GOP's chance to retain White House
Dan Simpson, a retired diplomat, is a member of the editorial boards of The Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
THE DECISION of President Bush to keep Dick Cheney on as his vice presidential running mate in 2004 may have been the worst thing he has done to America.
***
Instead, Mr. Bush and the rest of his and Mr. Cheney's loyalists are continuing to hardline it with the same lies and fear-mongering they used to get us into the war in the first place. More practical Republican candidates whose seats will be at risk in 2008 are either jumping ship or drinking.
***
There is also the late-at-night, eerie concern that Mr. Bush has in his head some sort of scenario where, for reasons of national security - real or drummed up - the 2008 elections will have to be postponed and he will get to stay on.
My suspicions have at their base the feeling I have that, given their operating style now, this bunch will not leave the White House easily in 2009.
***
Dan Simpson, a retired diplomat, is a member of the editorial boards of The Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
