In the movie "Heaven Can Wait" Warren Beatty plays a dead football quarterback who, thanks to a Heavenly mixup,ends up inhabiting the body of wealthy industrialist Leo Farnsworth. Beatty's character is a kind hearted liberal who immediatly sets to making his conglomerate a model corporate citizen, much to the displeasure of that conglomerates officers and directors.
Now, many people assume that Vice President Dick Cheney is the eminence grise of the Bush administration. After all, Bush wouldn't even appear in what was essenially a not-for-attribution session of the 9/11 Commission without Cheney sitting right next to him and holding his hand.
Now, obvoiously, I don't know how true this is, but let's assume for the sake of argument that it is. It's too much to wish for, but just for fun, What would the consequences be for Bush is he suddenly decided to take charge of his own administration, in direct contravention to the wishes of Cheney? What if he decided to end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home? What if he decided to open a real dialogue with North Korea? What would Bush's handlers do?
In "Heaven Can Wait" everything worked out fine for Warren Beatty: The company prospered and he got the girl.
What would happen to George Bush?