Washington Post: **THE BUSH ERA IS OVER**

[MaryS]

I don't remember ever seeing the Vice, no matter who has been in office.... That always seems to be such a hidden position.

Cheney has pretty much stayed in the background. I liked Margaret Thatcher's remark about him when he attended her getting an award:

Remarks by Lady Thatcher on Receiving the Clare Boothe Luce Award
December 9, 2002

Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice-President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Vice-President Cheney, you pay me particular distinction by your presence here this evening, and I am delighted that you have been allowed to “break cover”.

Indeed, you remind me of another intrepid warrior for justice. As the verse goes:
“They seek him here, they seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in Heaven? Is he in Hell?
That demmed elusive Pimpernel!”

Tonight Mr. Vice-President, for once, we know exactly where you are.

(excerpt from:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/wm178.cfm

 

[Ginny]

I like that.

 

[s_gunter]

I don't remember ever seeing the Vice, no matter who has been in office.... That always seems to be such a hidden position.

Is the Veep still in that "undisclosed secure location?" Oh, I forgot, that's classified .

Yeah, I know, bad joke....

 

[.Mikha'el.]

If a leader, turns and runs when times are tough, he wasn't a leader to start with.

If we lose the President then we have President Cheney. And when times are tough then we will have President .... MInd blank, WHo is Secretary of State.

J. Dennis Hastert, speaker of the House of Representatives, is third in line to the presidency, before Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

 

[simplicity]

Mr. Bush never had an "era". I suspect he will be quickly forgotten after the next presidential race. I don't believe it's in anybody's interest for him to step down. Nor do I consider that a real possibility. If I were him I would just start kicking some butt and show more political independence - less attachment to any particular group or special interest. He's the President of the United States. He could do all sorts of amazing things if he just told the partisans to hit the road. Who cares what people think of him. It can't get a whole lot worse.

 

[Chilufya]

I don't remember ever seeing the Vice, no matter who has been in office.... That always seems to be such a hidden position.

I don't recall which vice president, but I think it was either Garner or Barkley, said, "The vice-presidency is worth a bucket of warm spit."

 

[fanatiquefou]

Billnew;
Happy Birthday.

Well there is always the possibility that we can have another 3rd party canidate that splits the country 48% Dem 46% Rep 6% Other Conservative, then we can have another Democrat president without even a Majority of the Popular vote and the Media can try and convince us what a popular guy he is by never saying anythin negative about him. That was great fun

The media never said anything negative about Clinton?? What country were you living in during the Clinton years, because it sounds like it wasn't the one I was in!

 

[nathanel]

Well it took long enough... actually my hopes aren't too high as the legacy could well be far worse than the two terms in office (if that's possible):

"Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan
Strategy Includes Preemptive Use Against Banned Weapons

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 11, 2005; Page A01

The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons..."

 

[BeamMeUpScotty]

The media never said anything negative about Clinton?? What country were you living in during the Clinton years, because it sounds like it wasn't the one I was in!

Yup. I was doing my first stint here in Japan during the Lewinsky thing and I considered myself so lucky I didn't have to watch it on TV every day. I did listen to NPR (those evil liberal *&^%^*s) to catch up, though.

 

[BeamMeUpScotty]

Well it took long enough... actually my hopes aren't too high as the legacy could well be far worse than the two terms in office (if that's possible):

"Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan
Strategy Includes Preemptive Use Against Banned Weapons

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 11, 2005; Page A01

The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons..."

Paging Dr. Strangelove, you have a call on the courtesy phone in the Pentagon.

 

[Moros]

If it's true, Americans are idiots for just now realizing, well into Bush's 2nd term, that his govt. doesn't work.

 

[EbonNelumbo]

The Bush era started when he began to pander to the religious right. The Bush era will end when the religious right realizes he is a fraud.

And when you, any of you for that matter, can judge Bush for his actions in his relationship with God then please, pick up a stone and walk forward.

For everyone in that "religious right" that does decide he is not a Christian, they too will be judged, and unless I missed the part where God came down and said everyone who bears His Son's name may judge another person's faith for their acts, please forward THAT memo to me, until then, I chose to personally abide within the zone of not judging Bush's Christianity...
now, as for his choices in government, I think he needs to seriously consider listening to his people. Bush isn't going to resign, I side with whoever before me said that leaders don't walk away, or something to that effect...it's like a rat leaving a sinking ship, and most people who rant about their dislike in Bush would agree he's a dumb *donkey* before any sort of rodent.

Furthermore, does anyone hate Bush enough to wish that Dick Cheney on us as President? C'mon now, he is an accident waiting to happen.

 

[Texas Lynn]

The media never said anything negative about Clinton?? What country were you living in during the Clinton years, because it sounds like it wasn't the one I was in!

I was gonna say...

 

[Nightson]

And when you, any of you for that matter, can judge Bush for his actions in his relationship with God then please, pick up a stone and walk forward.

Ye shall know them by their fruits.

 

[utdbear]

hmmm.....somebody doesn't know much about fruits of the spirit...oh wait...just saw your icon....of course you don't

 

[murron]

Closed for staff review.