In this morning's Wall Street Journal, Fred Barnes suggests a real shakeup is needed to put the life back in the Bush Presideny:
The president's most spectacular move would be to anoint a presidential successor. This would require Vice President Cheney to resign. His replacement? Condoleezza Rice, whom Mr. Bush regards highly. Her replacement? Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, whose Bush-like views on Iraq and the war on terror have made him a pariah in the Democratic caucus.
Mr. Cheney would probably be happy to step down and return to Wyoming. But it would make more sense for him to move to the Pentagon to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, a job Mr. Cheney held during the elder Bush's administration. The Senate confirmation hearing for Mr. Cheney alone would produce political fireworks and attract incredible attention. At Treasury, Mr. Bush has a perfect replacement for John Snow, someone he already knows. That's Glenn Hubbard, former chairman of Mr. Bush's council of economic advisers and currently dean of Columbia's business school. He is in sync with Mr. Bush ideologically and has the added value of being respected on Wall Street.
Now how, really, is that a bold shakeup from what we have now? It's not, it's just the same deck chairs faces in different positions. Of course The Beadle's point isn't to actually do anything different, just look different and fool the press: "The goal: rejuvenation of his presidency by shocking the media and political community with a sweeping overhaul of his administration."
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