Cheney defends economy ("remains the envy of the world")

[sabra]

Source: phillyburbs

In Northeast Philadelphia Thursday morning, Vice President Dick Cheney said that America's economy “remains the envy of the world,” and that a recent economic “slowdown” could have been much worse without President Bush's economic policies.

Cheney said that because of those policies, particularly tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003, “the slowdown that did come was a fairly mild one.”

“For the better part of six years now, this nation's economy grew without pause,” Cheney said.

On Thursday morning, the average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the region crept to a record $3.67 a gallon, global food prices continued to soar and a Gallup poll showed that 86 percent of Americans believe the economy is getting worse. Yet Cheney said Americans should be “confident of the road ahead.”

Congressman Patrick Murphy ripped Cheney for his view of the economy.

“To tell Pennsylvania families that our economy is strong when so many of them are struggling is a slap in the face,” said Murphy, a Democrat who represents Bucks County and small parts of Montgomery County and Philadelphia. “It's time for Democrats and Republicans to start working together to solve problems instead of pretending that there are none.”

Read more: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-05092008-1531520.html

[Demeter]

1. So Cheney Is Delusional, Too?

Call the psych ward and get some thugs out to suit him up and take him away.

[sasquatch]

7. No, he's just so used to lying that he can't tell the truth anymore

[jonnyra]

19. My thoughts too sasquatch

They know exactly whats going on. They just lie with impunity because they know the media will not call em on it. To the criminal Bush administration perception management is their whole game. And when you control the media that job is made much easier. They say everything is great not because they are delusional...its because they are all serial liars and will say anything...ANYTHING as long it makes them look good.

[liberal N proud]

16. They must all have the same prescriptions

There isn't enough perfume to cover the stink of this fucking mess.

The worst part is they sit there doing nothing but deny.

[FVZA_Colonel]

25. He's too busy masturbating while thinking about torture to come up with real solutions.

eom.

[gateley]

2. That is just so fucking bizarre --

Tell that to the proud American tourists visiting some foreign countries who are told the preferred currency is Euros -- not the dollar.

[Happyhippychick]

3. Dickie really should get out of his bunker a little more often. The fresh air will do him good.

[Night_Nurse]

12. Yes, but the sun will make him disintegrate...

happens to bloodsuckers when they go out into the daylight.

[Happyhippychick]

20. What a beautiful picture I have in my head....a pile of Dickie disintegration.

[bdamomma]

33. he's more like a cockroach.

[barnel]

4. what do you expect him to say?

Hitler didnt leave an apology to the world in his suicide note

those guys never do

[Night_Nurse]

14. you're right

megalomaniacs - they are never wrong, never will admit they are wrong, don't even believe that they are wrong; center of the universe, all-powerful and omnipotent (in their eyes); everything bad is denied or blamed on others.. sociopathic... yep.

We've got that going on with the Mayor of Detroit right now, too.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. What 'world' would that be, Dick? The one in that other universe you and Bush live in?

[Hidey]

6. As if..

Cheney said that because of those policies, particularly tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003

But there were no tax cuts. It's impossible to cut taxes while in a deficit situation, because you're already spending more than you take in.

What Bush actually did was BORROW EVEN MORE MONEY, then give to taxpayers as a loan which they (and their children, and their children's children) will have to repay with interest.

That's NOT "cutting taxes" It's robbing Peter to pay Paul.

(Which will always gain you the support of Paul)

Then there's the targeting of those cuts, er.. loans to consider.

[madrchsod]

8. if it`s so good where are the jobs?

[Night_Nurse]

9. They are

ALL delusional, and in denial.

Everyone I know (including myself) is struggling right now - it's frightening.

But I'm sure that McCain can relate to that struggle while he sips a martini aboard his suga-mamma's private jet... :sarcasm: Wonder what it costs to fuel up that little toy?

[lligrd]

10. It Has Been Good

For Cheney. Nobody else matters to the SOB.

[LynnTheDem]

11. "I have not suggested there’s a connection between Iraq and 9/11."

Saddam Hussein has "a hidden biological weapons program capable of producing deadly agents on short notice."

"I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had now for over three years,"

Some of the lies of Cheney the dick.

[ToughLuck]

13. This is beyond political spin..his party should tell him to shut the fuck up now

But then again..let him keep this crap up..I can see the ads now, his voice of this while the video explores the reality of the situation.

[sabra]

15. it appears that even local GOP aren't too happy about his comments...

[Night_Nurse]

18. Interesting thought - I concur. Let him keep spewing nt

[Mist]

17. Darth is totally incapable of telling the truth. Or, he's happy in his parallel reality. nt

[Warpy]

21. They're coming to take him away ha ha, to the funny farm....

Damn, only the destruction of the state mental health system has allowed these lunatics to prosper at our expense.

In a more rational time, these people would have been drugged and plugged into the mains until the men in white coats decided they were enough in touch with reality that their families could take them home for short visits.

They sure as hell didn't get into high office.

[mcollier]

22. The names of Bush and Cheney

and their family decendents will go down in imfamy for hundreds of years... Shame they had to be leaders of America...

But America's reputation will be repaired and grow stronger. We'll get it right this time...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

28. In Cheney's case...

I don't think all three legs of a 440-3 phase would make much of a dent in what is wrong with him.

[Warpy]

29. No, but I think we'd all like to try...

[Mike Daniels]

23. Did DC spike the water supply running to the White House and Old Executive Building?

I keep trying to figure out how anyone in this administration is able to make statements that clearly run opposite of every measureable index.

The only think I can think of is that someone dosed the water supply running to that area of DC with some serious mind-altering substances. It's the only thing that makes sense.

I guess there is the off chance that if they just faced up and say "well, we were wrong about everything....sorry" that we'd see the first lynching to ever take place on the White House grounds. However, by continuing to stick to their "everything's just dandy" approach they can still bilk the dead-enders for appearance fees after they've finally gone out of office.

[Occulus]

35. This is what happens when we refuse to allow people in power to say publicly

that someone is, stated flatly, a liar. Doing so is considered "unprofessional". We are completely hobbled by our own sense of decorum and high-mindedness. There is a place for those things, it is true, but we have to begin to realize that there are those who will exploit that as a weakness rather than bow to it as a strength.

We need to start using uglier language when they pull this kind of crap. I'd like to hear something like "Mr. Cheney is full of shit" out of one of the mouths of power. Or, perhaps, strong accusations such as "I'm beginning to believe the vice president is becoming clinically insane, and I think we need to have a doctor examine him for fitness of office" or some such.

There's a time to be nice, a time to be mean, and a time to be just plain brutal. We're still being nice when we should be being brutal.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. LIAR OR DELUSIONAL?

I vote CALLOUS LIAR! ...a recent economic "slowdown" could have been much worse without pResident bush's economic policies.

Never mind that his "economic policies" were/are directly responsible for the deliberate "slowdown" :crazy: in the economy.

[pansypoo53219]

26. cheeney is as stupid as georgee.

dickie just appears smarter.
and his people are doing fine. make that super.

[Canuckistanian]

27. That's it - he's snapped

The man is so isolated from reality he doesn't even attempt to look at cold hard facts.

What a pair Darth and Shrub are.

[OhioChick]

30. Tell That to All of

The people who lost their jobs with their homes being foreclosed on and have nowhere to go, asshole.

[Orsino]

31. I think we're seeing the last throes, if you will, of Cheney. n/t

[bdamomma]

32. Cheney is a sick man isn't he?

"remains the envy of the world" Geez, he is out of his mind!!!

[bdamomma]

34. his answer to us is SO

[bdamomma]

36. Yet Cheney said Americans should be “confident of the road ahead.”

Cheney should Fuck off with that comment.

[chelsea0011]

37. So as long as there are countries like Haiti we are always in good shape?

So what did he say about the weak American dollar?

[bdamomma]

39. or the countries that do not want American dollars no more.

someone should challenge this SOB.

[classysassy]

38. Sir

return to your secure cave.

[Tippy]

40. Heard Mexicans and Guatamalens were having second thoughts

about crossing the border......

[MisterP]

41. Peanut Gallery: "Yeah, the Third World!" n/t

[melody]

42. He speaks, of course, of the World of the Invisible Scary Skeletons

World of the Invisible Scary Skeletons copyright Jack Handy :)

[HughBeaumont]

43. Cheney . . .

Go back in your hidey hole, you stupid FUCK.

Republicans
Here's hoping people NEVER come to their senses.
Otherwise, they'd be in deep shit.

[mcollier]

45. John Bush McCainey

Has an erie ring to it, doesn't it.

[eringer]

44. Cheney Has A Lot In Common With Hoover

Both were totally out of it.

[and-justice-for-all]

46. Why couldn't this fascist asshole shot himself in the face!

Europe is booming; the states I am afraid, is stagnate.

[truthisfreedom]

47. The moment he drunkenly shot his friend in the face he lost all credibility.

Every time he opens his mouth now, it's obvious nothing but vomitous spew will be effusing.