David Corn

DC,

Obama opened the door to Cheney when he started blaming Bush Cheney for all his inherited problems like a whiner instead of a leader.

Now Cheney is schooling Obama in politics 101 like he did Lieberman and Edwards in VP debates.

By the way building another super max prison? Really? How ya gunna pay for that? Another stimulus package,since the first and second one work so well, why not?

After Spiro Agnew had to resign the vice presidency for accepting bribes while he was governor of Maryland, I didn't think that I would ever see a worse VP. But, Cheney has plunged the Office of the VP to a new low.

His legacy will be one of lies, torture, and support for war profiteering. A sneering bully who talked tough, but couldn't even muster up the balls to serve in the military when it was his turn.

Hell, he can't even handle a shotgun properly.

He will be remembered rightly as the worst VP in our country's history.

Freddie, 99.9% of Obama's troubles are the fault of Cheney/Bush.

No need for another supermax. Place all the prisoners in Cheney's undisclosed bunker and weld the door shut. Be sure that Cheney is in there with them.

Stuff happens. Granted 44 stepped in it by not presenting a plan for Gitmo, but it's still a glaring shmear of hypocrisy to let it stand. Perpetual detainment (on American soil) thru a tribunal, doesn't sound very inviting either. Ship em' to Montana where they need the work, or send em' to Chavez!
BTW, Cheneys' hot air = fearmonger, fearmonger, fearmonger = same old, same old, same old...

The only people who take anything Cheney says seriously are inside the beltway drones or idiots.

*brushes shoulder*

Cheney's assertions of lives saved is hard to prove

Arguing against Obama's policies, he says that the Bush administration's approach to terrorism spared 'perhaps hundreds of thousands.' Experts say no evidence of that has emerged.

http://tinyurl.com/oummpt

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And yet the M$M give Cheney his own bully pulpit to spew his lies.

Hmmmmm

Establishing the connection between the Bush White House and Abu Ghraib

Denying that White House policy was directly responsible for the vile abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib has been the central goal of a five-year disinformation campaign by Bush officials. 'Torture Team' author Philippe Sands argues that newly-disclosed records show how blatantly Bush officials were willing to lie in order to lead reporters away from the truth. Eighth in a series of articles calling attention to the things we still need to know about torture and other abuses committed by the Bush administration after 9/11.

http://tinyurl.com/qpe8b4

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Facts are facts. Cheney has created a false reality for so long he just started believing his own lies.

From the comments at the link above:

""We’ve got what amounts to a reverse Nuremberg defense, where Bush administration officials are let off the hook because they were only giving orders.""

Liz Cheney's Pro-Daddy Media Blitz

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That's 12 appearances, in nine and a half days, spanning four networks. (On today's "Morning Joe," Liz Cheney was on for an entire hour -- effectively becoming a co-host of the program.) And this is just television, and doesn't include Liz Cheney's interviews on radio or with print media.

There's no modern precedent for such a ridiculous arrangement. Dick Cheney launches a crusade against the White House, and major outlets look for analysis from Cheney's daughter? Who everyone already realizes agrees with everything he says about torture?

This is just crazy.

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The SCLM strikes again!

Cheney Seeks Book Deal on Bush Years and More

http://tinyurl.com/qtwfxu

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

~ Ronald Reagan

Cheney’s daughter Liz revealed that fear of prosecution is indeed a motivating factor in the former vice president’s current media campaign:

L. CHENEY: I don’t think he planned to be doing this, you know, when they left office in January. But I think, as it became clear that President Obama was not only going to be stopping some of these policies, that he was going to be doing things like releasing the — the techniques themselves, so that the terrorists could now train to them, that he was suggesting that perhaps we would even be prosecuting former members of the Bush administration.

Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJDbGfzuD4

Freddie, 99.9% of Obama's troubles are the fault of Cheney/Bush.

No need for another supermax. Place all the prisoners in Cheney's undisclosed bunker and weld the door shut. Be sure that Cheney is in there with them.

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Only one problem Kal Pal, The current moron VP Biden has already disclosed where the secret bunker is, which makes it no longer a secret!

Intel experts: Dick Cheney was wrong about Bush administration moves

WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s high-profile speech Thursday defending the Bush administration’s policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements, according to intelligence officals and the historical record, including:

Cheney said waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques produced information that “prevented the violent death of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people.” He also quoted Director of National Intelligence Adm. Dennis Blair as saying the information gave U.S. officials a “deeper understanding of the al-Qaeda organization.”

In his statement April 21, however, Blair said “these techniques hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.” A 2004 CIA inspector general’s investigation found no conclusive proof that the information helped thwart any “specific imminent attacks,” according to one of four secret Bush-era memos released last month. And FBI Director Robert Muller said in December that he didn’t think that the techniques disrupted any attacks.

http://tinyurl.com/qeqvq9

BS over facts.

For GOP, A Southern Exposure

Republican strength in the South has both compensated for and masked the extent of the party's decline elsewhere.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20090523_2195.php

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Maybe Cheney lying about everything will help?

Deep Thought

Why is Dick Cheney's daughter the only person he can find to go on TV to defend him?

--Josh Marshall

Hmmmmmm?

As for Cheney, I'm no longer convinced we'd be better off if he just slunk back to his undisclosed location and left the running of foreign policy to the incumbent administration.

It has taken some adjustment to get used to watching the formerly reclusive veep clawing for airtime with the likes of The Donald and Britney. But no one caricatures Cheney as deliciously, or makes the case for Obama's slightly more nuanced perspective as articulately, as Cheney himself, and I've begun to enjoy his TV appearances the way I used to enjoy watching Wile E. Coyote unpacking the Acme Company's latest bird-catching technology.

Meep meep!

http://www.freep.com/article/20090524/COL04/905240403/?imw=Y

RIDGE: I think a lot of our commentators are being shrill. I mean, I don't disagree --

JOHN KING: Rush?

RIDGE: Yes, Rush Limbaugh has an audience of 20 million people. A lot of people listen daily to him and live by every word. But words mean things and how you use words is very important.

KING: I want to be clear, though. You think Rush is among those being too judgmental, too shrill?

RIDGE: Well, I think Rush articulates his point of view in ways that offend very many. It's a matter of language and a matter of how you use words. It does get the base all fired up and he's got a strong following. But personally, if he would listen to me and I doubt if he would, the notion is express yourselves but let's respect others opinions and let's not be divisive.

Let's lead our party based on some principles that have been very much a part of who we are for decades. And let's be less shrill in terms of -- and particularly, let's not attack other individuals. Let's attack their ideas. Let's explain in a rational, thoughtful, responsible and reasonable way why our ideas and our approach are more acceptable and why they should be more acceptable to the average citizen.

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No no no - please GOP never change - you're just so right . . . lol

Dick Durbin pwns Newt over Nancy Pelosi and the CIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaqjboQo7xg

I say let Cheney keep on blathering. Simply blog about what he omits and his lies.

Had Cheney been willing to release his own office papers, I might have had some sympathy for him. Rumor has it that he shredded most of his documents before he left office. Since he is neither part of the executive or the legislature according to his staff lawyers, he is not bound by either the constitution nor by any laws or treaties ever created by this nation or any others. He is in fact lawless, reckless, amoral unethical and lacking in integrity. (He is the essential conservative Republican.)

Liz Cheney considering run for public office?

The Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen has been keeping a close watch on Liz Cheney, noting that the ubiquitous daughter of the former vice president “practically lives on cable news” these days. “She also lies routinely, accuses the president of helping terrorists, and is so mindless in her attacks on the nation’s elected leadership, she’s something of a national embarrassment,” Benen writes. And according to close friends of hers, she may be the next Cheney to run for office:

“She’s awesome. Everyone wants her to run,” said a close friend. [...]

“She’s a chip off the block!” said a longtime friend. [...]

“It’s a two-fer. She comes off a bit better than he does sometimes,” a conservative consultant said.

Asked about the possibility that Liz Cheney might make a run for office, Republican operative Karl Rove responded, “She might!” Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IplaZHZebiE

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Monday, suggests that 70 percent have a favorable opinion of Powell, who was Secretary of State during President George W. Bush's first term, and who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Persian Gulf War.

Only 30 percent of those polled have a favorable view of Limbaugh, the popular conservative radio talk show host, with 53 percent saying they hold an unfavorable opinion.

In poll numbers released Thursday, 37 percent say they have a favorable opinion of Dick Cheney, with 55 percent indicating they hold an unfavorable view of the former vice president.

http://tinyurl.com/rckmc7

Something about fooling some of the people all of the time...

Fear just never gets old for those who call themselves "conservative".

The only way I can think of to put an end to the fearmongering is to Cheney (or whichever person is fearmongering at the moment) a scared little child and tell him to go hide behide his mommy's skirt while the adults sort things out.

Fear is not working so well anymore, and I think this tactic will actually work. If it doesn't work, it will at least feel good.

If you want to worry about something, don't worry about being the victim of a prison escapee. Your chances of being struck by lightning are considerably higher.

That won't stop the fearmongers, of course. Remember Willie Horton?