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April 24, 2007
Reid Spokesman: Cheney's Attacks Are Desperate, Lack Credibility

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Jim Manley, Spokesman for Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, released the following statement today
after comments made by Vice President ***** Cheney:

Vice President Cheney should be the last person to lecture
anyone on how leaders should make decisions.

Leaders should make decisions based on facts and reality, two
words that seem to be foreign to the Vice President

This is the same guy who said Iraq has weapons of mass destruction
and that we would be greeted as liberators. And it's the same guy
who continues to assert that Saddam Hussein had links to al Qaeda
long after our own intelligence agency conclusively refuted this
notion. To suggest he lacks credibility would be an understatement.

The Vice President's and others' attacks on those who disagree
with their failed policies are signs of desperation. They are
lashing out because they know the days are numbered for their
failed strategy and that the American people and a bipartisan
majority are determined to force this Administration to change
course in Iraq.

I don't know what else can be said negatively about the nation's two
very unpopular top leaders without being terribly redundant at this
critical point. I support Kucinich's move to impeach Cheney, and I
await
more congressmen to move to join him, and fervently hope that Bush will
be impeached, too.
The question I have which is barely discussed among those seeking
impeachment of Bush, is: if Cheney doesn't replace him (God forbid if
he
does!), then who will be the President for the remainder of his term?

I believe Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is next in line
after the vp. The problem is if we impeach Bush then Cheney will
just pardon him. This is probably why they're going after Cheney
first. Besides, I think Cheney has more dirt on him than Bush
does. Bush is stupid and easily influenced, and while being
incompetent does mean that he shouldn't be president, it doesn't
necessarily mean he came up with some of these crazy schemes on
his own.

And, just as vexing: if that replacement President becomes popular
(bipartisan or partisan), will that person's popularity challenge the
Dems and even reorder the Republican's candidate line-up? It seems a
'given' that the previous Bush policies would be reversed or else the
replacement would be facing the same unpopularity, and continue to drag
his Party downward.
Of course, if both the VP and Prez were to suddenly exit at the very
same time (highly improbable), Nancy Pelosi would assume the Presidency
in a crisis situation.
I am reminded of the fact that Ford became rather popular, mostly on a
partisan basis, when he assumed the Presidency in the wake of Nixon's
resignation. I wonder who Bush might be considering for a VP
replacement? It would seem prudent to at least consider some candidates
just in case -- or perhaps Bush has become so deluded and/or arrogant
that he thinks the VP will never be removed (and himself, too).
Doc