Cheney Will Go

The Bush presidency needs a fall guy. Cheney is it. Cheney ran Bush. He certainly ran Libby. Libby will cooperate with Fitzgerald for a lighter sentence. There is no reason to be loyal. Maybe Libby has knowledge of Bush embarassing facts for possible executive pardon. Cheney's indictment/resignation will have the symbolic effect of purging the major bad influence in Bush administration's invaison of Iraq. The republicans can then be less apoligetic for Bush and his agenda and they will retain control of congress in 2006 elections. The democrats will have the bragging rights of helping to clean up bad foreign policy and loss of civil liberties.. Cheney will be blamed for everything. This will allow former Pentagon super-Zionists Wolfowitz, Feith and other Likudniks to slip away under the cover of blaming Cheney. Rumsfeld will probably be forced to resign to reinforce the cleansing scenario. Coni Rice, an evangelical, will probably be made vice-president because Bush may need her executive powers if anything happens to him.