A "what if" scenario: Bush Refuses to Turn Over Power

[Truth2Tell]

From: Ten Car Train

Amusing and creepy at the same time.

The Worrier’s Almanac’s Biggest Worry of 2008: The Bush Administration Refuses to Turn Over Power
by Pete Nicely

January 20, 2009


It’s dawn at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Lynne Cheney has been up all night rewriting the national curriculum to present to the four members of the National Press Club, all representatives of Fox News/Wall St. Journal, at noon. She’s exhausted and a bit bleary eyed from excising most of the 1960s from the American History standards, but she still has the energy to put her stuffed-bald-eagle-talon slippers on and head underground to check on her husband’s feeding tube.

Before she makes her way to the hospital ward, she does the precursory security-MRI scan so she can pop into Donald Rumsfeld’s chamber. She has a couple of questions to ask Don as she puts together the agenda for the Media Dissemination Council meeting at 10 AM.

She finds Don as she left him, leaning into his standing desk, which is more of a podium. One hair is out of place, but otherwise Rumsfeld looks as spry and collected as the day he resigned from office in 2006.

More than anyone Rumsfeld was reinvigorated by President George W. Bush’s complete suspension of the Constitution in late 2008. When Bush made his surprise announcement—just before the third game of the World Series between the Cubs and the Yankees—that Al Qaeda had completely infiltrated the Obama 08 campaign and completely dissolved Congress on October 20, Rumsfeld was the President’s first recess appointment. Rumsfeld was back, but not as the head of the Department of Defense, but as the Secretary of the newly instituted Department of Order, which subsumed the DOD along with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.

Continued at: http://tencartrain.com/?p=639

Edit to add: Read till the end, the payoff is in the last section...

[MonkeyFunk]

1. This comes up every week or so here

He's leaving. I don't think he WANTS the job, much less would fight to keep it.

[Truth2Tell]

2. It's satire. Did you even read it? nt

[cloudbase]

4. Yep.

That part about the Cubs in the world series was a sure giveaway.

[judasdisney]

3. We haven't learned anything, apparently, about how the Neocons stage their coups

The coup will not be frontal.

Cheney's Sleeper Cells <http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-23.htm > in the Federal Bureaucratic Agencies (not just CIA/DIA/NSA/DOD but FDA, EPA, State Department, Federal Judiciary, etc.) include career & lifetime appointments: The Neocons are not going ANYWHERE.

The Neocons are perfectly capable of using Diebold not to WIN elections but to SET UP the Patsy President of their choosing.

In this case, I suspect we will see:

(1) The Economic Scapegoat President, 2008-2012

(2) The Patsy Democratic President, 2012-2015

The Chess game is wide and the coup is long and slow-motion, as Al Gore has called it. As Naomi Wolf has noted, the patina of democracy and legal codification of the coup is being put in place, with the help of Pelosi's Democrats & the DLC.

The coup will be a Lone Gunman "Al Qaeda Sympathizer" crashing a plane into Congress when only Democrats are present, wiping out the national party at a moment when the Democratic President is weakest and under siege from political scandal. Or some such scenario. It won't be an unpopular Republican clinging to power.

[Adsos Letter]

5. This guy can't wait to get out of office...

whatever natural capacities he had upon entering office have been so overwhelmed by events and stupid decisions of his own making that he absolutely cannot wait to get away from everything...just my 2 cents.