Will Bush serve out his term?

[11 Bravo]

My guess is 99% yes. Don't get me wrong, the question was not SHOULD he, but WILL he. Hell, when another post asked "What should appear on Bush's tombstone?", the first thing that came to my mind was today's date. But I just can't see the Senate voting to remove him from office. Is he guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors? Of course he is! But I can't see justice being served with only a 51-49 majority.

[buddysmellgood]

1. He hasn't served the first part, I see no reason why he would quit not serving the rest.

[MadMaddie]

2. Now that he is stonewalling with what his supposed "Forward plan"

is...his ratings will continue to drop...and it also is becoming more apparrent everyday that he only cares about corporations rights versus the rights of individual Americans.....

I say that there will be a catalyst that will push the country over the edge of no return and he will beimpeached....I think he is gone in 2007

[niyad]

3. the only term I want to see him serve out is his life sentence (multiples, actually) for war crimes

and crimes against humanity.

[LunaC]

4. No

From the realm of airy-fairy, astrologically he's facing some whomp-ass karma in the near future. His sorry ass will be out of the WH sometime next summer.

fwiw

[DavidDvorkin]

5. No, but he will serve out Al Gore's term

Since he's now in the middle of what would be Al Gore's second term, if not for the Supreme Court's perfidy.

He'll probably make it to the end.

[Gregorian]

6. No way.

I was very surprised when someone I know, who is a lifelong Democrat, said they wanted Bush to run for a second term. I was surprised until they explained. They are old and wise. I think they knew something. And now I think I know what it was.

[Big Sky Boy]

8. Well in any event

I hope he keeps on this blithering idiot path he's chosen. The longer he stays the better our chances are for the White House in 2008 and the more seats we will pick up in both houses.

[TahitiNut]

7. As I've said before, I can't help but expect he'll be 'martyred' before 2008 elections.

I just can't believe his 'base' will weigh the alternatives ("loose cannon" as an ex-pResident vs. a 'martyr' for the GOP) and not find a way to get the latter. The 'bonus' would be if Cheney were replaced by the 'heir apparent' before then ... and get the 'sympathy vote.' It just makes too much snese and is too consistent with the kind of shit I've seen since November 1963.

[Monkeyman]

9. You Mean like Foster shot in the head found in park

Cheney found cleaning the gun.

[Independent_Liberal]

10. Not to change the subject or anything, but I have something I want everyone to read.

It's today's message from the World Can't Wait.

<snip>

To the World Can’t Wait Community:

BUSH MUST GO!

IF WAR CRIMES, TORTURE, AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ARE NOT REASON TO IMPEACH, WHAT IS?

The whole program of the Bush administration must be stopped. If George Bush is allowed to finish out his term, all the destruction and the whole direction he has taken society will be condoned, legitimated and made permanent. We demand Congress investigate and hold accountable the Bush Administration for criminal liability and bring articles of impeachment against the President.

Generations from now people will ask what did the people of this country do when they knew their government was committing war crimes: launching a war based on the unlawful doctrine of “preventive” war; indiscriminately using cluster bombs, depleted uranium and chemical weapons against civilians; and carrying out an illegal occupation?

What will you say when they ask why a President who decided he could order torture with impunity stayed in office?

Will your answer be that we did nothing because Congress refused to act, counseling governing from the center and working with the President and seeking unity and common ground with war criminals, religious fanatics and fascists?

Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly immoral and illegitimate war in Iraq – with Iran now in its sights.

Your government is openly torturing people. In violation of international law, with the Military Commissions Act of 2006, it has made torture legal and granted itself immunity from criminal prosecution.

Your government is creating a police state – obliterating basic constitutional protections, such as the right to habeas corpus, the right to privacy and the right to dissent.

For the war to end now, for torture to stop, to restore rights stolen, we the people must act. No one will do this for us. That which you do not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn – or be forced – to accept.

We can and must create a political situation where the Bush regime’s whole program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed.

January 4, 2007: Demonstrate in Washington DC as Congress opens!

Impeach Bush! THE WORLD CAN”T WAIT - DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!

[opihimoimoi]

11. Me thinks he be gone due to extreme pressure from those he let down the most..THE GOP

They will hound Bush/Cheney no mercy....until they both resign...The Pubs are that pissed Bush would do their Conservative Cause this much harm....