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Gee. I’m having Deja Vu all over again. It seems like just yesterday that VP Agnew was resigning in the face of criminal charges, and then wouldn’tcha know, President Nixon resigned, too!

Now, we’re only one week into the trial of Scooter Libby, and already things are starting to look dark and grim for VP Cheney. Or is it merely the fevered over-active imaginations of a few activists? You decide. For a current assessment, take a look at Scarecrow’s

The Decider and Dick Cheney

Here’s an excerpt:

This week we got repeated reminders of how much trouble a dishonest and arrogant Vice President can create for an Administration. Official Washington and its media are being reawakened once again by the Libby trial, in which the ever loyal Scooter is on trial for lying, but in which the defendent in waiting may well be Mr. Cheney himself. By the end of the week, government witnesses were detailing Mr. Cheney’s and/or his trusted deputy’s guilty knowledge of Ms. Plame’s identy and status, while Ms. Martin, a trusted member of Mr. Cheney’s own communications staff, described under oath how fixated Mr. Cheney had become about anyone who might reveal how badly he and the Administration had spun the facts to gin up a pretext for going to war. . . . .

In any other regime, a Vice President in this much trouble with the party’s potential Presidential candidate [McCain], the country, the Congress and perhaps the law would be looking forward to retirement and the unspoken promise of Presidential pardon. Or as Paul Begala put it, “If he had any decency, he’d simply resign.” h/t perris). But as we’ve learned to deep regret, in the Bush regime, none of the rules that lead to well-deserved firings or honorable resignations for the good of the country apply, so we are stuck with the man until folks start reading their Constitution and realize the Founding Fathers actually gave us a solution for exactly this sort of thing. In the meantime, one wonders what he’ll say or do next.

(Emphasis added.) And this is only the beginning of Scooter’s trial. Most of the chief witnesses yet to come. Oh, and did I mention that interest in this trial is really heating up in Washington?

Bob