Replace the Vice President
So much for humor. Here's a serious one... Condy Rice has said she wants to be NFL Commissioner... OK, so there is a joke in this. We lied.
Anyway, so Condy wants to be NFL Commissioner (but is now saying that it's not the right time). Could this be a great chance for President Bush to replace his top cabinet posts? Why would he do this? Well, he wouldn't because that would mean he would have to admit defeat, or at least mistakes, or at least admit that someone else could do something better.
Back to the point, why do it? You have his "brain" trust of Condy, Rummy and Dick. Now, Dick's the only one who has shot anyone (or as far as we know the Cheney shooting is the only shooting by a senior Bush Administration official) but the others are all for shooting. (No, we are not going to take a position on the war on these pages as this is a non-partisan, or at least centrist, blog.)
It should be easy to replace Condy and Rummy. Condy gets traded to the NFL and Rummy is ready to retire. Come on, he had a cabinet post in the Nixon Administration!
Dick Cheney is the tough one. For one, he may be the most senior person in the Bush Administration so who fires whom. Oops, did we say "fire"? Confirmation of a cabinet post is pretty standard. Replacement and confirmation of a vice president is tougher.
So who wants this, Democrats or Republicans? Democrats would be thrilled to see these three gone and can celebrate all the way to the polls in November. Republicans (at least those in Congress) would be thrilled to see these three gone and would celebrate all the way to the polls in November.
Dems want to vilify the Repulicans for all that is wrong (or that they can say is wrong) coming from the White House. Republicans would love scapegoats outside of Congress. Just look at what they did with Portgate.
So the verdict is in. Fire Rice, Rumsfeld and Cheney. Oops, there we go again with the firing.