Okay. I will do it.
Posted by matt at October 21, 2005 06:38 PMTom Cruise
Posted by Mr Nice at October 21, 2005 06:44 PMGeena Davis?
Posted by leftAhead at October 21, 2005 06:48 PMAndy Card is reported to be holed up with Dumbya at Camp David for the weekend [subscription]. I'm sure the new Bu$henstein's Monster will be revealed by Monday.
Posted by pessimist at October 21, 2005 06:51 PMI think Frankenstein Melman is assuming he'll get the job, so I hope it's anyone but him.
Posted by iamcoyote at October 21, 2005 06:57 PMMelman and Gannon/Gluckert, what a team!
Posted by rlp at October 21, 2005 07:00 PMAl Gore
(Hey, I can dream, can't I?)
Posted by Hannah at October 21, 2005 07:38 PMJames A. Baker III is probably who the Bushling will beg to bail him out just like he did in the Florida election fiasco in 2000.
Posted by Jeff Gannon's Pimp at October 21, 2005 07:45 PMgood question from the left coast. How about Katherine Harris. Naa, Rove was an A$$ kisser and smart. Harris on the other hand is a rewarded yes woman. Smart????
Posted by Michael Pellett at October 21, 2005 07:49 PMHarriet Miers.
She's not going to get the job she just applied for, and she thinks Dubya is really neat-o.
Posted by N in Seattle at October 21, 2005 07:49 PMMuckdog.
Posted by muckdog at October 21, 2005 07:53 PMLet's hope it is Andy Card. He is the one who birthed the Miers fiasco and is surely capable of many more.
Posted by Big Red at October 21, 2005 07:58 PMJesus. Isn't He a republican?
Posted by Anonymous at October 21, 2005 08:00 PMJesus. Isn't He a republican?
Actually, he was an essene.
Posted by sage at October 21, 2005 08:05 PMAnn Coulter. She's got the balls for the job.
Posted by tempus at October 21, 2005 08:17 PMWonder if anyone has picked up on this - I only heard through my Mom - someone was on Lou Dobbs tonight - someone the Republicans have discarded -and a package of confidential information was sent to him in error - tells of 3 of the 9/11 hijackers who were all known about beforehand and nothing was done about - he said, apparently, when he put this out, there really would be some heads spinning. Sorry, I don't have any names, but did anyone see this?
Posted by jra at October 21, 2005 08:36 PMI don't know why he needs a new brain, the old one was never used. I'd like to change my Rove-replacement to Charles Manson. I believe he and Georgie think alike, and Charlie and Karl have been pen-pals for years.
Posted by tempus at October 21, 2005 08:55 PMWow, what a great opportunity.
A new brain for Bush?
How about a bucket of shit?
Nope, that is what is there already.
I know! I know!
A frog with a firecracker up its ass!
Posted by Vinnie at October 21, 2005 09:03 PMDemocrats need a brain. Period. Since FDR, we haven't had one. Since WWII, Democrats have done nothing to show they have any vision, any fortitude, to honestly address the US place in the world. JFK and LBJ were the finale of the FDR era. It is now 37 years since Democrats have held power in a meaningful way. By 1968, it seems, the Democratic plan for America, was complete. Since then, since Nixon defeated Humphrey in 1968, Democrats have shown they have no vision. When will our Party be honest about this? When will we admit that we are so out of sync with what America has become that even now, as another Republican meltdown is upon us, we have no viable alternative to offer US voters? The only thing we offer is a rehash of policies put in place during the depression! Where does the Democratic Party want to take our country now? How determined are we to take control of the country, to ensure that Democratic plans are enacted?
America wants strong leadership. But Democrats inspire none of us, as far as I can tell, that they have the courage to take control.
Such courage is borne of conviction. Only that. Those among us who insist we believe in nothing (the anti-ideology argument ignorantly propogated by kos, e.g.) damage the cause of blind Democratic partisanship they espouse. Is this disconnect a sign of youth and inexperience? Unfortunately, it seems to be based on a belief system of its own. Clinton elevated this performative contradiction to exalted status. We all say: at least under Clinton we felt like we were powerful.
If Democrats can't begin by being honest with themselves, if we can't admit, openly, even amongst ourselves, that we do believe in something, even something that we fear may be percieved as unpopular, then we are irrelevant in US politics.
50,000 years of human evolution won't disappear just because we suddenly decide we need to pretend the things we were are no longer part of what we are now. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. People still "believe" in things. Facts as they perceive them support their belief. For the Democratic Party to abandon ideology disconnects it from the way people think, the way a human organism functions. Democrats profess to be the "reality-based" Party. It's time for it to become part of that reality again.
Let's have an ideology. Let's believe in it fiercely. Let's use the fierceness of that belief to get back in touch with everyone else who wakes up every morning and gets out of bed and makes their way through the day because of those convictions.
Posted by NealB at October 21, 2005 09:03 PMI agree with NealB. Let's cut social programs and taxes on the rich and big business, start a war or two, gut individual rights, piss of the rest of the world, lie repeatedly to our citizen's, and turn America over to a bunch of people who are looking forward to the end of the world. Now that's commitment.
I can't agree with the nutty 50,000 years of evolution point though. The Earth was created last Thursday at 11:37 AM.
Posted by tempus at October 21, 2005 09:27 PMDick Morris should do it. He just finished a book, so he should have some free time now.
Let's have an ideology. Let's believe in it fiercely. Posted by NealBIt is well know that brains come in two types, a-normal which includes most female and a few male brains, and type ab-normal exemplified by Bush and NealB. Posted by Mike at October 21, 2005 10:14 PM
Michael Brown wouldn't work. No executive could work easily with an aide who had less padding in his resume than the exec himself.
Posted by Alan at October 21, 2005 10:14 PMMaybe Bush can channel Lee Atwater.
Posted by Judith at October 21, 2005 10:25 PMAbby Normal?
(Oh...sorry...he already HAS that one...)
Posted by jillian at October 21, 2005 11:20 PMFrau Blucher!!!
Posted by palamedes at October 22, 2005 12:56 AMstick with Card. He has the right-size brain for bush. or at least billmon says so, and he's met the dunce.
Posted by benjoya at October 22, 2005 07:12 AMJ Miller, of course. Media connections up the ying-yandg and and mucho skill and experience selling pigs in polks. And would satisfy that "strong woman" fetish that Barb cursed him with.
Posted by GOboy at October 22, 2005 07:29 AMNealB,
So, what are you proposing? A more competent and "honest" form of Bu$hism? Maybe our "little" crooks won't steal as much as their big crooks do. Maybe America's decline from first world superpower to third world basketcase can't be avoided but the "compassionate" Democrats can make it slightly less painful on the common people as we slide into the eternal night of eventual extinction?
Now, that's called not having any ideas. Who in their right mind would vote for that? I wouldn't. The Democrats have plenty of ideas, the only thing that changed in 1968 was that the new deal majority that FDR built split up over Vietnam. This has allowed the forces of reaction to ascend into leadership. Now the reactive coalition is splitting. America is the only advanced country without universal healthcare access, we need to evolve our energy infastructure into systems that promote self sufficenticy and a healthier enviroment, the problem of intergenerational poverty is still with us. There are good, positive ways to deal with all of these issues. We can make the 21st century worth living in. Aping the Republicans is not going to get us there. The problem isn't about ideas and the vision to carry them out, the problem is leadership and the promotion of the ideas.
Posted by rlp at October 22, 2005 07:54 AMMaybe Bush & Brown should discuss it over dinner.
Posted by larre at October 22, 2005 09:05 AMDan Quayle, hands down!!
A fellow whose level of intelligence Bush himself admires. Besides aren't Quayles always found near Bushes?
Posted by at October 22, 2005 09:08 AMYeah, Dan Quayle, that's the ticket. They would compliment one another in their stupidity.
Posted by Judith at October 22, 2005 09:49 AMYes, Quayle and Bu$h - a critical mass of ignorance and stupidity. It would disrupt the space-time continuum and end all life in the universe.
Perfect!
Posted by pessimist at October 22, 2005 09:58 AMSince Harriet Meirs is under such mounting pressure, she will step down from her appointment and become Bush's brain!
Posted by bbtb at October 22, 2005 10:44 AMYou know if some of this stuff was not right I would not care. I think that we have a major problem. It is not simple being a president and you can not have all the answers but we need someone to come up with something right. IT JUST IS NOT THERE.
Posted by DJ at April 23, 2006 08:33 AM