Your Predictions Here

[joe1347]

Cut and run will lose the election unless he can blame it on the democrats.



In two years time the dems will use the resulting mess against the republicans.



I doubt Colin Powell will ever come back.



By time of the Manhattan project most of the theory had been worked out.



With the number of people who want to "take back" the party that isn't going to happen.



Flip flopper!!!



No it will keep the democrats safe. The democrats now have to spend the next two years dodging blame.

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So it looks like dumping Rumsfeld was the token sacrifice before going back to business as usual.

Democrats bristle at Bush's push to confirm Bolton
POSTED: 10:25 p.m. EST, November 9, 2006
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On the same day President Bush promised a new bipartisan Washington, he began efforts to get two of his most controversial decisions approved before the Democrats take over Congress.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/09/bolton.congress/index.html

Looks like everyone of my predictions has pretty much been proven wrong over the course of just a few hours. I foolishly thought that the election results would change the Bush Administrations direction. I guess I need to 'study' the Sylvia Brown method of making predictions. IMHO - The moderate wing of the Republican party needs to start asserting itself or face extinction along with the rest of their brethren in 2008.

I don't think that the American public will tolerate business as usual from the Bush Admin over the next two years. By not tolerating - I mean that yet more levers will be pulled for Democratic candidates in 2008.

President Hillary

So much for trying to be a moderate Republican again. Time to head over to the local Moveon.org celebration. yuck.

 

[joe1347]

it looks like dumping Rumsfeld was the token sacrifice before going back to business as usual.

Actually upon further thought - I wonder if dumping Rumsfeld was necessary to protect the Bush Admin from the inevitable barrage of subpoenas from Democratic House and Senate investigative committees? The remaining high-profile architect of the Iraq Fiasco - Cheney - will likely claim some form of executive privilege and hide under a Supreme Court bench for the next two years. With Rumsfeld gone - who should or will the Democrats hit with subpoenas? Beating up on the Generals doesn't seem like a good idea (need to look like you still support the troops). I wonder if this is the reason why Rumsfeld was kept around to just after the election - since if Rumsfeld was replaced say 7 months ago. That replacement would actually know something that could be damaging to the Bush Admin - while the new guy brought in post election can just claim that he doesn't know anything. Especially since the new Sec Defense isn't part of the existing Admin and can therefore claim complete ignorance of the Iraq Fiasco.