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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Incidentally, some people think they see signs that some more pragmatic Republicans -- think Jim Baker or Brent Scowcroft -- are making a move to get Cheney out of there before the campaign starts in earnest. If so, most of us won't know much about it until it's over.
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I don't think Cheney needs to be pushed. I don't think he wants to be VP for the next term. The guys not in the best of health and he loves his wife and family and wants to spend time with them before he dies. He is no idiot and I am betting that at his age and with his money, he doesn't need the job and the grief he takes over Halliburton isn't worth it to him anymore.
Rumsfeld will voluntarily leave at the end of the first term, too. He has done what he wanted to do.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Greenspan leave as soon as the job situation* improves. He has made his mark on history by correctly predicting the bubble would burst with his "irrational exuberance" comments when everyone else was saying the business cycle has been repealed.
We are not talking about spring chickens here.
* then all those people who Ty claims have dropped out of the job market can begin eating again.
