DBWI: President Bush not assassinated in 2005?

As you know, President George W. Bush was assassinated in Tbilisi by Vladimir Arutinian in 2005. Had Bush survived the assassination attempt, would we live a better life?

Surely President Bush would not have repealed the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy, but he might have handled Hurricane Katrina a lot better, as indicated by his wartime leadership on September 11.

In the 2006 midterms, Democrats very narrowly retook the House, and Republicans were only able to hold the Senate, thanks to the tie-breaking vote of Vice President McCain.

Would President Bush have rescued the Lehman Brothers like Cheney? Also, who would be the Republican presidential nominee in 2008?

OOC: No change from OTL before May 10, 2005 allowed.
 
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This is a very interesting question. I suspect tat Bush would have rescued the banks. Love him or hate him, he was a populist at heart. As for 2008, Romney would have been the nominee.
 

JoeMulk

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We wouldn't have seen Patriot Act III introduced and the essential suspension of the fourth amendment. If Cheany will be remembered for anything it will be the way he essentially turned this country into a police state. To be fair President Richardson hasn't done a goddamn thing to reverse the fascist tilt of the country.
 
Well the man DID get re-elected despite some less-than-stellar decisions after 9/11. Maybe he would've decided to take this second chance given to him by the American people and try to make things right. Like try to fix the housing bubble, the Social Security issues and the problems with the subprime mortgage crisis and whatnot.

Granted with the midterm results... who knows if he'd get ANYTHING done. :rolleyes:





(OOC: is this scenario even plausible?? Bush being killed by some "crazy foreigner" would probably martyr him in some way, or at the very least wipe away some of the criticism for past screw-ups, and there'd be a mourning period that would last a while. A president hasn't been killed since Kennedy. I'd like to think that'd shake some things up. Just saying.)
 
We wouldn't have seen Patriot Act III introduced and the essential suspension of the fourth amendment. If Cheany will be remembered for anything it will be the way he essentially turned this country into a police state. To be fair President Richardson hasn't done a goddamn thing to reverse the fascist tilt of the country.

If anything, his health reform law that accidentally reversed the privacy protections within HIPPA may have worsened things.
 
President Bill Richardson and Vice President Dianne Feinstein have at the very least served to restore America's reputation overseas. President Dick Cheney's support of the "ethnic cleansing" campaigns by President Vladimir Putin starting in 2006, served to send the message to the rest of the world that America was at war with the religion of Islam....
 
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President Ann Richardson and Vice President Howard Dean have at the very least served to restore America's reputation overseas. President Dick Cheney's support of the "ethnic cleansing" campaigns by President Vladimir Putin starting in 2006, served to send the message to the rest of the world that America was at war with the religion of Islam....

Er, I think you mean Ann Richards, who died in 2006. In any case, Dean agreeing to be VEEP is ASB.
 
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President Bill Richardson and Vice President Dianne Feinstein have at the very least served to restore America's reputation overseas. President Dick Cheney's support of the "ethnic cleansing" campaigns by President Vladimir Putin starting in 2006, served to send the message to the rest of the world that America was at war with the religion of Islam....
I hate the extreme policies of President Cheney, but President Richardson's decision to pull out troops from Iraq immediately after his inaguration, has left Iraq in a state of civil war. The world now is more dangerous than it was when Cheney was in power:mad:
 
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Surely President Bush would not have repealed the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy.

Almost certainly not, and Bush never would have even considered touching something like Cheney's the Marriage Equality Act. I suppose that was the one advantage of deciding from the start to be a one-term President; you can afford to tell off your base and stand up for matters of principle.
 
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