Sally Quinn yesterday floated a trial balloon on Fred Hiatt’s kickass party page that Republicans are congregating to secretly urge the Puppet in Chief to remove the current puppeteer from his ass and replace Smirkcheney with swoony Fred Thompson:

Everybody loves Fred. He has the healing qualities of Gerald Ford and the movie-star appeal of Ronald Reagan.

Nothing makes middle-aged sallyquinns moister than Fred Thompson:

CARLSON: He does look like the dad. He has everything that Pat says. He’s handsome, he’s charming, he sounds like a president, he looks like a president, but Pat says he might not have the fire in the belly. That could help him — not having the hunger, not being willing to do anything — could help him.

Look, this administration is obsessed with secrecy. They didn’t ask the CIA to open up the vaults and invite the world to examine Vietman-era wetworks and illegal domestic spying so George Bush could off Dick Cheney so Fred Thompson can kindle little deaths for sallyquinns.

Bushco is innoculating us with atrocity toxins. Cheney ain’t going nowhere.