Something else we all can agree on

The right and the left are both opposed to the immigration bill which is about to die on the Senate floor and both sides seem to agree that this is about the stupidest thing to ever find it's way into a newspaper.
A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney

The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office. Even before this week's blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising.

As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq, Cheney is viewed as toxic, and as the administration's leading proponent of an attack on Iran, he is seen as dangerous. As long as he remains vice president, according to this thinking, he has the potential to drag down every member of the party -- including the presidential nominee -- in next year's elections.

Removing a sitting vice president is not easy, but this may be the moment. I remember Barry Goldwater sitting in my parents' living room in 1973, in the last days of Watergate, debating whether to lead a group of senior Republicans to the White House to tell President Nixon he had to go. His hesitation was that he felt loyalty to the president and the party. But in the end he felt a greater loyalty to his country, and he went to the White House.

Today, another group of party elders, led by Sen. John Warner of Virginia, could well do the same. They could act out of concern for our country's plummeting reputation throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East.

Now if John Warner were to actually do that, which is highly unlikely, Cheney would be Cheney and simply tell him to go f*ck himself. But now it gets even more absurd.

For such a plan to work, however, they would need a ready replacement.

And who does Ms Quinn think that might be?

That leaves Fred Thompson. Everybody loves Fred. He has the healing qualities of Gerald Ford and the movie-star appeal of Ronald Reagan. He is relatively moderate on social issues. He has a reputation as a peacemaker and a compromiser. And he has a good sense of humor.

He could be just the partner to bring out Bush's better nature -- or at least be a sensible voice of reason. I could easily imagine him telling the president, "For God's sake, do not push that button!" -- a command I have a hard time hearing Cheney give.

Not only that, Thompson would give the Republicans a platform for running for the presidency -- and the president a way out of Iraq without looking like he's backing down. Bush would be left in better shape on the war and be able to concentrate on AIDS and the environment in hopes of salvaging his legacy.

From the right we have Ed Morrissey's reaction.

I'd like to have a shot at what Sally Quinn's drinking. In today's Washington Post, Quinn tells us that Republicans have decided that Dick Cheney has to go, and will start devising plans to force him out of an office to which he has been twice elected. Quinn believes that this has reached the Goldwater-to-Nixon scenario in the summer of 1974, only this time Cheney stands accused of hurting the GOP's chances in the next election rather than any lawbreaking.

I don't know but I think whatever she is drinking is too strong for me. And from the left we have this lambert at Corrente

WaPo's Quinn floats trial balloon: Replace Cheney with Fred Thompson (then run Thompson in 2008)

Well, that’s beyond shameless, isn’t it? Anything,a nything at all to evade accountability and preserve the “Our Town,” the Beltway as a Republican fiefdom. Her and Dean Floater. Even for Ben Bradlee’s child bride. Maybe that’s why she’s got a yen for Fred?

And the belt way media wonders why they don't get any respect. It's because you are all idiots.