w would fire cheney too if dick wasn't his superior.

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/469776p-395131c.html

It wasn't just Donald Rumsfeld who got the boot yesterday. The post-election shakeup also put a stake in the Era of the Neocons. Watching President Bush's pained and antsy performance, I had the sense he'd fire Vice President Cheney if he could.

But he can't, so he's doing the next best thing. Rumsfeld is gone and with him is, hopefully, the neocons' foolish and infuriating insistence that everything in Iraq is hunky-dory and not subject to change. "Full speed ahead," Cheney said Sunday, just before he went on another hunting trip. Maybe he should take his fancy Italian shotgun to Iraq where it might do some good.

His hiring should make the Bush family Thanksgiving less tense. There have been reports that father and son rarely speak, and never about Iraq. And it's a fact that members of the 41 tribe, especially former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, have been banished from the current White House because they dissented on Iraq.

By turning to Gates, who served as Scowcroft's deputy, it's as though the prodigal son is knocking on Dad's door and asking for help. The answer was yes, proving you always can go home again.

[screembloodymurder]

1. I think he'll go.

Resignation may take place before Jan.