Makes You Wonder...

Maybe I’ve seen too many Oliver Stone movies or read too many poliblogs, but the timing is just too suspicious on this one.

Bush had promised to deliver a speech to the nation by the end of the year outlining his new strategy for Iraq based on the findings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Iraq Study Group.

And yesterday, knowing that the Democrats planned to take control of spending on the war, he decides that he needs more time to formulate his response, and will not be rushed…and then suddenly, democratic Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota has a stroke…and if he’s incapacitated, then Mike Rounds, the Republican governor of that state will appoint a Republican to replace him, flipping the control of the Senate over to the Republicans. Destroying any chance the House would have to impeach Bush (like it would ever happen, though) and more importantly, eliminating any chance the House would have to control or even cut funding for the war.

It’s just too weird that probably the only way the Repubs could have grabbed back the Senate was for one Democratic Senator in a state with a Republican Governor be unavailable for service. Of course, that same set-up could have happened in New York, but Hillary undoubtedly has a full legion of bodyguards and Schumer, now for all intents and purposes the only working Senator in New York, is probably moving too fast for anyone to do anything to him.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m cynical, maybe my medications need to be modified, but if I were, say, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi, I’d want a full blood screening on Tim Johnson. I’d want alibis for Cheney and Karl Rove. I’d want to ask Putin if maybe he got a package deal on the polonium.

Perhaps Bush couldn’t wait until June, when Dr. Kevorkian is slated to be released from prison.