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Bush-gate

What scandal will Bush face in his second term?

  • Revelations about extra-legal torture/murder/assorted illegalities in Guantanamo/Iraq/elsewhere

    Votes: 3 20.0%
  • Domestic covert ops/political shenanigans- a la Watergate

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • Financial shenanigans - a la Teapot-Dome, Checkers, or White-watergate

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Extra-legal funding of terrorist/"counter-insurgent" organisations, a la Iran-Conta

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • Sex scandal - ewwwwww

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • Dubya's been hittin' the booze and nose-candy again

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • Only a dirty, dirty Canadian socialist would suggest such a possibility

    Votes: 6 40.0%

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The Vegetative State
We all know that the President's second term is a time when folks in the Adminstration put their collective head up their collective ass and do something so incredibly stupid that it boggles the mind to comprehend it. Given the intellectual deficit endemic to the current admin, one would find it difficult to believe they will avoid such a blunder.

So, what form will it take, class? A sex-scandal I would personally find difficult to fathom. I do think that once the full picture of what's been going on at Guantanamo is revealed - if ever - there are going to be some hard questions. Although with all of Dubya's close personal connections to the world of morally-challenged corporate officials, this also ranks as a high possibility...
 
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yychobbyist

No "all of the above"?

I'd love to see him face a sexual scandal. That's one that the Rep's would have a very hard time dealing with. I can see it now:

Reporter: So, Senator, how is Mr. Bush's indescetion and subsequent misleading of the national press any different from what occured to President Clinton.

Southern Senator: Well, it's patently obvious to anyone that these are very different situations and there is absolutely no comparison.

Reporter: Can you tell us why there is no comparison?

Senator: Well, ok, with Mr. Clinton, he....ummm.. had sexual relations with um.....a rather....um...overweight intern and...ummm. in the case of the President he....ummm. seems to have had a tryst of some sort.....apparently a tryst involving the removal of clothing and the touching of genitals with....um... a demure Texas socialite. And then....ummm. there is ......ummm of course the question of Cuba.

Reporter: Cuba?

Senator: Yes. Mr. Clinton's despicably horrific actions, actions which I must reiterate were dealt with through the process of impeachment, included the use of a cigar and....umm... we are all aware the best cigars come from Cuba.


Reporter: Surely, you can't be serious?

Senator: Don't call me Shirley.
 

Asterix

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No way will there be a sex scandal. Mama Barbara Bush would have GW strung up by his balls if he ever tried, and he knows it. I'm guessing that now that the Pentagon and Rummy have effectively taken over covert operations and intelligence from the CIA, they'll get themselves involved in some ill conceived clandestine operation that will blow up in their face. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.
 

Mcluhan

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Speculation as to what could bring down Dubya? I think this administration is pretty much beyond getting it’s hand caught in cookie jar, at least by outsiders. I thought the Valery Plame affair would go somewhere, with two high ranking officials implicated in outing a federal agent over the Nigerian nuke papers, and yet… they are even unwinding the CIA. Maybe demoting them is a better word.

Nixon was actually in charge, and was his own worst enemy. Paranoia did him in. In this Admin, we have Cheney in charge, with Rumsfeld as the lieutenant. These guys are unshakeable It’s unlikely they are going to make any grossly stupid mistakes, unless you count invading a sovereign nation on the basis of lies and deceit, racking up a trillion in debt by 2008, and losing the war, a grossly stupid error. These men are too careful, too practiced, and too powerful to get caught off-side.

Let’s say there was something diabolical like the Mousad having advance knowledge of 9/11 (which BTW I believe they did just on the basis of logic and common sense) and someone in the administration knew about it…even then…someone would take the fall. As the Mousad is far too ingenious, they absolutely never left a trail.

Guantanamo will be another non-starter, especially now that the Justice Dept has legitimized torture when it’s in the interest of the state.

My guess is, (if anything), we are going to see something on a level with Seven Days In May , only with a reverse twist. In this movie, it’s a General who attempts takeover of the Administration in order to save the country from a weak President. I think there must be people in the Pentagon who realize the madness of fighting a war they cannot win, a war that could spread like wildfire to inflame the region, and a war that is bringing their institution into discredit internationally. I think these ones must see the expansion written on the wall and fear it. I would expect there are those among them, good and ethical men, who would expose a scandal in the defense dept. if they could find an opening…and if such a scandal actually were to exist. Looking at Rumsfeld’s punitive, cold, calculating, and ruthless approach, it’s doubtful there is any opening.

Bush is going to go after more territory in the region, of that I am sure. So there could be an Oli North brewing somewhere. It will be a black opps screw up, maybe with Israel's hand involved. The exposure will need to come from within. The days of Woodward and Bernstine are long past. The holes have been plugged. So my vote is, it will come from within the Pentagon, if it’s going to come from anywhere.
 

onthebottom

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With "dirty Canadian Socialists" having twice the votes of any other option (a whopping 4) restores my faith in this forum.

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