Posted on 12/29/2005 9:43:03 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The only thing more bizarre than the DUmmie THREAD featured in the DUmmie FUnnies this morning where the DUmmies fantasized about a reality-challenged scenario where Bush gets chimpeached is this DUmmie THREAD titled, "The post impeachment administration: Powell-Gore?" As you might have surmised from the title, the DUmmies are already assuming the fantasy of a chimpeachment and are now planning on the makeup of the post-chimpeachment administration. Colin Powell isn't even in government any more but that small fact doesn't seem to interfere with the DUmmie fantasy as you shall see. Even more bizarre is that Powell would somehow choose Al Gore to be his vice-president. But wait, DUmmies! Why stop there? I mean since we are in your Alternate Reality, wouldn't Powell say to himself that Gore was really elected in 2000 and then meekly step aside and let Gore take over the presidency? As usual, the DUmmie Fantasies being channeled from the Alternate Universe are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, envisioning my own Alternate Reality of Petra Verkaik and Salma Hayek battling it out in a hotel room over who gets first dibs at my body, is in the [brackets]:
The post impeachment administration: Powell-Gore?
[Or Tooth Fairy-Kucinich?]
I believe that if the Democrats take the House after the mid term congressional elections, there will be an impeachment. Moreover, the Democratic majority will give cover to disgruntled Republicans to join the impeachment effort.
[How kind of you to give cover to the disgruntled Republicans of the Alternate Universe.]
However, we have to keep in mind that it is almost a certainty that impeachment will not change Republican party control of the executive branch. This is because the outgoing president will control the appointment of a vice president.
[Damn that Constitution!]
As during the Nixon administration, once Congress decides that impeachment is a real possibility, they will first have to force out a corrupt vice president -- then Agnew, today Cheney. It is inconceivable that Congress would impeach Bush, but allow the author and instigator of most of his crimes, Cheney, to assume the presidency.
[And don't forget Denny Hastert. We must get rid of him too! Plus everybody down to about the 145th level of succession.]
This raises an important question for Democrats: Who will be the post impeachment president and vice president?
[Why ask the Democrats? They have NO input as to the post chimpeachment president and vice president.]
Almost all the Republicans in the administration and the Senate are simply too tainted either by the crimes of the administration or corruption in Congress. Both parties' leaders will be trying to clean house, signal a move by the Republicans from the extreme fringe right policy positions and send a message to the international community that the US is ready to return to the "reality based" international community -- all in the same appointment.
[Your use of the term "reality based" already has me doubling up in laughter.]
Frankly, the only viable Republicans are John McCain and Colin Powell, and given the international crisis that Bush has created, Powell is the far more likely candidate.
[Thanx for just killing McCain's primary election chances in '08. Any "Republican" considered "viable" by the DUmmies needs to be prevented from getting the presidential nomination by REAL Republicans.]
At this point, however, because of the unprecedented fiscal, military and international challenges the federal government will face, Democrats need to insist on some kind of "government of national unity" -- in other words, the appointment of a Democratic vice president. The only Democrat with the stature to be vice president under those circumstances is Al Gore, both because of his experience as vice president and because he actually won the popular vote in 2000.
[This fantasy scenario will only happen with the proper astological alignment. Namely Uranus must be aligned in front of your face.]
You may disagree with this analysis and proposed administration, but I hope you'll agree that it's time for progressive Democrats to look ahead and begin planning for the post-Bush administration.
[How about the more modest goal of planning for your institutionalization, DUmmie HamdenRice ? And now on to the other DUmmie comments...]
powell is an asshole solidly in the bush pocket and the world knows he is a liar who likes to advance his own interests ... existing patriotic feelings in powell? NONE! so, why get rid of an asshole to put in place another asshole? sorry for the foul language. i have no other way to express my utter contempt for powell.
[Nice to see you get all worked up over a fantasy that WON'T be happening in this Reality.]
I don't disagree at all ... but the point is, that the Republicans will control the successor to Bush-Cheney. Powell lied about the war, but he has bee furiously apologizing and leaking his embarrassment ever since he left office. Surely you can see he is positioning himself for the succession?
[Yeah. Powell has nothing better to do with his time than planning for a DUmmie Fantasy scenario that WON'T be happening.]
republicans would never vote for GORE and on principle GORE should not stand with any republican in a ticket nor take second place to it. he would be another asshole if he, for a second time, would willingly accommodate the assholes.
[How noble of Gore to turn down a position that WON'T be offered to him.]
After all this national trauma, would you prefer .... Powell-McCain? Or Powell-Santorum? If we are going to control a post-Bush administration, I think we need someone in at a very high level.
[Powell-Energizer Bunny?]
i am not dreamin' republicans are not going to let go of power and control and without the bush machine to act as their backbone...neither sanctoroom nor mackane have the charisma to do what bush has done...unless they are using diebold machines, i have the feeling that even with those two running the country, much of democracy would return to these shores. although, i may be totally wrong.
[Or totally deluded for extending even the least bit of credibility to this thread.]
The succession to the presidency is defined...I don't think your scenario accounts for the fact that the Constitution was amended to provide a clearly defined succession of the Presidency. How is your scenario going to get around the 25 amendment?
[By leaning back, closing his eyes, and clicking his heels together three times while wishing real hard.]
I guess the OP thinks it would go like this: Dubya is impeached and removed from office. Cheney becomes President and appoints a VP, say, Powell Cheney is then impeached and removed from office. Powell becomes President and appoints a new VP.
[Tinkerbell?]
However, Bush will not be removed by the impeachment process. That is just a pipe dream.
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
So who will be the post-Bush prez if not Powell?
[ET]
I agree with this, what is the harm in sending the actual threads, return receipt requested?
like commonguymd said, pitt and a pal could have been intercepting calls.
is pitt a trustworthy DUmmie, even for the DUmmies....i think not.
Great stuff! I nearly strangled myself trying to stop laughing.
Hey, and make sure to include some of his other worldly ramblings and wacked out posts. Don't forget to include the inane ramblings whereupon he basically "murdered" one of his good friends by questioning him at a time of need - which in turn created an internet furor.
You got a call from PITT?! And you're still awake to talk about it?!!!
Yeah. His amazing claims kept me awake: PDA worked with A.N.S.W.E.R. on the Sept. rally in D.C. yet Pitt supposedly remained simon pure because he NEVER EVER talked with anyone himself from A.N.S.W.E.R.. Oh, and he never read the Daily Kos piece about what an embarrassing failure the Sept. rally was. Then there was the fact that Ty supposedly read, in a bar, the entire piece about him written by Pitt in just a 5 minute period. How? Was there a computer conveniently there?
Does NOT compute.
Maybe it was the magic of Pitt slipping a Jackson into Ty's pocket. I've heard that can greatly improve one's reading speed and comprehension, if you catch my drift.
BTW, even though Willie Pitt now lives in Boston, I seem to recall that he may originally be from Georgia. I think his dad is/was some muckety-muck in the Georgia state Dem Party. Not 100% on all that, but that seems to ring a bell.
It's interesting because Ty's response reminds me of the John Wayne character in the movie "Fort Apache" that I saw again yesterday. When some reporter remarked on the slaughter of Col. Thursday's men, he talked about a painting depicting the Indians attacking in columns decked out in feathered war bonnets even though the Apache attack and their style of style of attack was very different. The Wayne character who had been there and had seen the massacre, replied hollowly, "Correct in every detail."
Alabama or Mississippi. I think his dad was a Democrat chairman of one of those states.
I think you are correct sir.
I call "Farce"!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rivers_Pitt
William Rivers Pitt (born 1971) is a writer and current editorial director of Progressive Democrats of America, where he writes a blog titled "We the People." Pitt is the former managing editor of the left-wing commentary website truthout.org. He is also a frequent contributor on the Internet forum Democratic Underground under the username "WilliamPitt."
He is the author of the books War on Iraq and The Greatest Sedition is Silence.
Pitt was born in Washington, D.C., and lived several years in Alabama (where his father, Redding Pitt, now chairs the state Democratic Party) before eventually moving to Boston.
Thanks!
grumps around a bit and pings mister
MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Democratic Party Chairman Redding Pitt, who took considerable criticism for his party's lackluster performance in the 2004 general election, has told party leaders privately that he plans to step down in the near future, Pitt confirmed Tuesday.
"It's time for a change," said Pitt, a Birmingham lawyer and former U.S. attorney. "For next year's election, I think the best strategy would be to have a new chairman." . . .
Many party activists have blasted Pitt, a law school classmate and friend of failed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, for spending state party funds on television advertisements for the Massachusetts senator in a state where President Bush is immensely popular. Bush eventually carried the state by a 25-point margin.
Pitt also took heat for campaigning out-of-state for Kerry shortly before the November election, in which Republicans swept Democrats in four statewide court races, leaving just one of 19 appellate court seats in Democratic control. . . .
"Also I can spot phony Southern accents."
I live in Northwest Florida and it seems half the people I know are from Louisiana. None of them have the typical southern accent.
That is pure gold. Pure gold!
Apple is still on the tree.
thanks, common
I saw that date, but I saw more results that said Wee Willie was born in 1973. So he is either 34 or 32.
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