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Cheney Returns As The Face Of The GOP

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Posted on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 03:52:33 PM EST
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Daily Kos gives us this video of Dick Cheney upon his triumphant return as the face of the Republican Party

To dignify Cheney as a serious person on policy is something I will not do. This is without saying the man should be, by all rights, in jail. But as the de facto leader of the worst Administration in history, Cheney is not someone whose views should be taken seriously. I certainly will not. I will point out that it is political suicide for the Republican Party to allow Cheney to reemerge as the face of the GOP.

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    At least Rumsfeld had the presence of mind (5.00 / 6) (#2)
    by andgarden on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 04:15:51 PM EST
    to disappear.

    I will say this about Cheney (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by Exeter on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 04:21:30 PM EST
    The man knows how to sound authoritative.  Even after all these years, he's still, momentarily able to mesmerize me with his school principal schtick.

    Its Ridiculous (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by WS on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 09:05:53 PM EST
    Cheney kept talking about Iraq as if they were forced to go into war and that's why they had such huge deficits.  He also glossed over Katrina as if the Administration's response was the norm.  

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    He also claimed (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by cal1942 on Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 02:29:57 AM EST
    that invading Iraq put an end to their production of weapons of mass destruction.  

    What kind of "journalist" would let him get away with making such a statement?

    Repeat a lie often enough ...

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    Of course Cheney is a good face (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by jondee on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 04:23:21 PM EST
    these people exist in a parallel universe impervious to reason in which, in order to keep the base together, you're required to believe that Dumbya will eventually be vindicated, Obama is a Marxist-Leninist and a cholesterol-laden barrage balloon with a mouth on the radio is eloquence itself.

    Cheers (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by squeaky on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 04:34:58 PM EST
    Hope it is a slow and painful death, politically speaking, that is.  

    It's a setup... (5.00 / 4) (#7)
    by oldpro on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 06:00:28 PM EST
    Cheney and every other Republican will get such statements on tape so that if/when something happens, the nooz can endlessly play their "I told you so" whether it makes any sense or not.

    They're playing the odds.

    I'm trying to wrap my head around (5.00 / 6) (#9)
    by Anne on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 07:08:12 PM EST
    a Republican Party that has Michael Steele at one end, and Dick Cheney at the other; it's like Laurel and Hardy, except that Cheney's sense of humor seems to be triggered by things that make the rest of us shudder - torture, waterboarding, warrantless surveillance, and unlimited power.  Steele, however, is showing real promise as a first-class buffoon.

    What actually needs to happen is for as many people as possible - maybe even a brave "journalist" or two - to actively and heartily laugh in Cheney's face as soon as he utters one of those oh-so-serious opinions that he makes up just to scare people to death; a loud guffaw or two and Cheney might arrest on the spot.

    On the other hand, seeing Cheney's face may just serve to remind people how bad the Bush years were, and Michael Steele bringing up the rear may warn them how much worse it could get.

    Al Gore on Bush (5.00 / 2) (#14)
    by dualdiagnosis on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 09:45:48 PM EST
        
    ..."There was then, there is now and there would have been regardless of what Bush did, a threat of terrorism that we would have to deal with. But instead of making it better, he has made it infinitely worse. We are less safe because of his policies. He has created more anger and righteous indignation against us as Americans than any leader of our country in the 228 years of our existence as a nation -- because of his attitude of contempt for any person, institution or nation who disagrees with him. "...

    ________

    In his second major policy speech in three months, former vice president Al Gore took aim yesterday at what he said was the Bush administration's exploitation of the terrorist attacks of 2001 to justify an undemocratic suspension of domestic freedoms and to create a government built on "secrecy and deception."

    "Rather than defending our freedoms, this administration has sought to abandon them. Rather than accepting our traditions of openness and accountability, this administration has opted to rule by secrecy and unquestioned authority. Its assaults on our core democratic principles have only left us less free and less secure," he said.

    ... In both cases, Gore said, the administration has "recklessly put our country in grave and unnecessary danger."

    You go, Al. (5.00 / 2) (#15)
    by oculus on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 09:47:25 PM EST


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    If he has any clout with the current (5.00 / 2) (#16)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 10:20:54 PM EST
    administration, I hope he can get that Patriot Act erased from existence.


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    I know who I'd rather see (none / 0) (#21)
    by Fabian on Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 07:15:13 AM EST
    on television.

    How does one invite oneself or get invited to appear?  Availability seems to help and it seems that Cheney is happy to grab some camera time at a moment's notice.

    But why oh why would anyone want to listen to Mister Wrong?  Has Cheney been right on any issue?  Has he been prescient ever?  Have his policies ever been long term successes (for the country, not personally)?

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    We're (none / 0) (#1)
    by SOS on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 04:14:43 PM EST
    seriously divided in this country. More so now I think then back in the 60's in some ways. Plus the media is no longer doing what it should be doing. Hard reporting on politics instead of soft serve  newz'. Informing rather then shaping the public discourse.

    Obama the uniter (1.00 / 1) (#6)
    by dualdiagnosis on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 04:44:23 PM EST
    "we're not a red America, we're not a blue America, we're one America..."

    blah, blah

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    All hail. (none / 0) (#8)
    by lentinel on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 06:12:06 PM EST
    When Cheney talks this way, it feels like a veiled or not-so-veiled threat.

    It makes me think that he and his dangerous associates are planning something.

    I think he liked being dictator. And nothing bestows dictatorship like engendering fear in the populace. He thinks we will all scurry to Papa Cheney for protection. He could be right. It happened before.

    After giving his (none / 0) (#10)
    by KeysDan on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 07:26:43 PM EST
    party a look, with the likes of Rush, Steele, Palin, and Newt its grand successors, maybe Cheney sees himself as presidential timber in 2012.  After all, reality has never been his forte, and he can hope that the gravy on his face will be mistaken as gravitas.

    Nah (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by squeaky on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 07:35:06 PM EST
    He is a shadows kind of guy, like then and now. Desperately trying to lead from darkness into darkness. Truly an evil force, if there ever was one.

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    Cheney has always supported torture (none / 0) (#12)
    by MKS on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 07:44:28 PM EST
    When Cheney was the Secretary of Defense in the Bush I administration, Thomas Stroock, a friend of his from Capser, Wyoming, was appointed U.S. ambassador to Guatemala in 1989.  Ambassador Stroock was the son of the man who got Cheney into Yale.

    In 1989, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun from New Mexico was abducted, tortured and raped.  At one point, an American directed her torturers in the torture chamber to let her go and took her in his jeep.  He told her to forget about what had happened to her.  The man spoke Spanish with an American accent and spoke English quite well--also with an American accent.  So, an American controlled the torture chamber in Guatemala.  

    Sr. Dianna had over 100 cigarette burns on her back but Ambassador Stroock said to many people that her story should not be believed.  Stroock's wife told many her story was bulls**t.  A U.S. Embassy official said that Sr. Dianna had engaged in "rough lesbian sex."  She actually had an abortion because of the rape.

    At one point, Ambassador Stroock said to a Wyoming paper that Sr. Dianna was ungrateful for his having helped her escape...

    Then-Secretary of Defense Cheney visited Stroock in Guatemala....later after Sr. Dianna had been released, at least according to one public agenda/intinerary that I have located.

    There are a few unconnected dots here...but not too many. I believe Cheney has supported torture for a long, long time.....It wasn't 9/11 that changed him, as some have stated--it only gave him the ability to do what he previously envisioned in his very sick mind.

     

    Whee the F*** (none / 0) (#17)
    by Blowback on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 10:31:29 PM EST
    were you & W on 9/11 when the biggest attack on America occurred????

    Just go away you stupid fool. you did your "duty."...dirty

    mr. cheney is, (none / 0) (#18)
    by cpinva on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 10:34:38 PM EST
    and always has been, an idiot. normally, i wouldn't care, but his idiocy has affected me personally. i hope he keeps it up. the more he spouts this nonsense, the more he, and the rest of the republicans, will be exposed as the vacant stare in front of the empty space that they are.

    he never struck me as sounding authoritative, as much as he did totally out of touch with reality, and totally unself aware. he is not a very bright man.

    Segue: Cheney. (none / 0) (#19)
    by oculus on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 11:41:08 PM EST
    Interesting from Sunday NYT arts section about paintings stolen from Isabella Steware Garddner museum in Boston:

    Mr. Amore, a former Homeland Security official who helped overhaul security at Logan International Airport here after the Sept. 11 attacks, said he has built a database of every lead that has come in since the theft. (Security at the Gardner is now "a step over" the standard for museums, he added.) He said he gets frequent tips, including one from a repeat caller who insisted that former Vice President Dick Cheney was behind the theft.

    [Italics added.]

    Happens a lot. (none / 0) (#22)
    by dualdiagnosis on Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 03:48:12 AM EST
    It's a common variant of BDS.

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