The stakes of the 2006 elections and "The Bush Endgame"

[Nikki Stone 1]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CAR20060511&articleId=2421

"The political stakes are high. If the Republicans lose control of the House, John Conyers would become the Chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee where he would wield the power to launch investigations into any of several potentially impeachable offenses. If the Republicans lose control of the Senate, Senator Ted Kennedy would become Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and he could launch public hearings into the scandals now swirling around of the Bush White House. Imagine: Ted Kennedy presiding over an official investigation into Bush’s clandestine eavesdropping, wiretapping and mail-openings aimed at US citizens or the torture cases of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. There are plenty of potentially explosive scandals, and the Republicans realize that they could face the political Apocalypse if they lose the midterm elections this November. Their fears are driving them to draft plans for a political Gotterdammerung of their own, replete with nuclear weapons and a president who has recently refused to remove the “nuclear option” from the negotiating table.

Josh Bolten’s principal mission is to reconstruct political support for the Bush presidency by ramming through a program for a tough military onslaught against Iran based on its recalcitrance to abandon their nascent – and thus far perfectly legal - nuclear program. Frustratingly for Bolten, Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld, Iran has not violated any treaties or international laws and - to make matters worse – a majority of the American people do not trust Bush to make the right decision “about whether we should go to war with Iran.”

Be that as it may, Bolten has four months left to prepare the ground for an Autumn Surprise bombing of Iran to revive the fears of Americans and to herd them into a battle formation to support a renewal of “the war on terror”. This role should suit him admirably, for Bolten was one of Washington’s most vocal proponents of war against Iraq when he was in his old position at the OMB..."

[napi21]

1. I knew about Conyers, but I didn't think about Ted Kennedy!!!!

OH MY GOD! No danmn wonder ShrubCo is scared!!!!! I know Conyers as already threatened impeachment, but he's a pretty laid back kind of guy. I'm not saying he wouldn't do it, but if YOU knew you had to appear at hearings and one was chaired by Conyers and the other by Kennedy, which one would SCARE YOU MORE? Oh man, I bet both Conyers & Kennedy are licking their chops about this dream!

[helderheid]

2. Is he scared?

[napi21]

4. No doubt in my mind HE and a lot more people are VERY scared!

The part that frightens me the most is what the pubs will do between now and Nov? I know it's been said before, but it's sooo true A cornered wild animal is very unpredictable and dangerous!

[helderheid]

5. I hear you - I just wonder if they think they can just steal 2006.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. I'm sure they'll give it their all. What ever it takes.

Rotten evil bastards! :grr:

[Nikki Stone 1]

7. How far do you think they will go?

??

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. And Kennedy has an axe to grind methinks. The article is really good, BTW

worth a read in its entirety.

[stepnw1f]

8. Anybody Assuming the GOP Won't Try to Steal This One Too

is brain-dead...