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Tue Mar-24-09 08:39 AM
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Go back into hiding, GOP begs Dick Cheney |
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Source: The HillGo back into hiding, GOP begs Dick Cheney By Molly K. Hooper Posted: 03/23/09 08:10 PM
Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input.
Displeased with the former vice-president's recent media appearances, Republican lawmakers say he's hurting GOP efforts to reinvent itself after back-to-back electoral drubbings.
The veep, who showed a penchant for secrecy during eight years in the White House,has popped up in media interviews to defend the Bush-Cheney record while suggesting that the country is not as safe under President Obama.
Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, “He became so unpopular while he was in the White House that it would probably be better for us politically if he wouldn’t be so public...But he has the right to speak out since he’s a private citizen.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/go-back-into-hiding-gop-begs-dick-cheney--please-2009-03-23.html
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Tue Mar-24-09 08:45 AM
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1. Actually, he can go back into hiding now that he's accomplished his mission |
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of criticizing Obama on Bush's behalf.
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Tue Mar-24-09 08:46 AM
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2. But cheney's mission isn't yet accomplished. |
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America isn't bankrupt yet.
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Tue Mar-24-09 08:53 AM
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3. Or a Fascist state (quite) yet. |
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Tue Mar-24-09 12:14 PM
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we are bankrupt. he got his company no bid contracts. the rest of his oil buddies are in iraq swimming in the stuff, where the last i heard about 30% of the oil was 'missing'....
seems to me he did accomplish what he sat out to do ... sure , he woulda wanted more to happen for himself... but if you ask me, he got all the 'must have' things he needed.
hes richer, and not going to jail for anything.
looks like he won to me.
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:13 AM
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4. Some Repukes have gotten the message that |
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paranoia no longer equals patriotism. That shit doesn't work anymore and they know it makes them look worse every time Cheney pulls his "we're all going to die if they don't do it my way" stunt.
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:28 AM
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5. He's destroyed the rethug party for good. Everything great about America died because of cheney. |
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:45 AM
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I think those 3 pretty much did us in for quite a while.
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:40 AM
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31. yeah - maybe . . . I always saw her as a tool of the others |
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a black woman - well educated - there to bring some credibility to their cabal.
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Tue Mar-24-09 04:11 PM
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38. She's a brilliant woman. What makes her a tool of the others any more than Rummy? |
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Tue Mar-24-09 05:17 PM
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40. it always seemed to me that she was just being used by the neocon cabal |
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yes - she is very intelligent - I said that. I didn't see her in the same role as rove, cheney, and rummy.
Just my opinion.
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Tue Mar-24-09 05:23 PM
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41. She went on the same TV blitz in the run up to Iraq as they all did. She is still saying the |
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Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 05:26 PM by No Elephants
invasion was necessary, the intelligence was blah blah, Saddam had to be taken out, etc.
I don't know how someone who is about five times as smaart as Dummya and at least twice as smart as Cheney gets used as a tool, unless she very much wants to be--in which case, she is using them, or the using is mutual Powell may have been used as a tool. Brownie may have been used as a tool. Even Rummy to some degree. He was certainly used as a scapegoat. Not Condi, though.
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Tue Mar-24-09 06:22 PM
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43. I think she has been a tool of the bush family since bush 1 |
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:45 AM
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32. But, but . . . they all wear flag pins! Isn't that enough to prove their love for America? |
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Oh, wait, that would mean caring for someone or something other than themselves. Boy, that love stuff is just anti-Republican.
Hey, you remember when George W. Bush claimed to be a "compassionate conservative" and everybody looked all stunned and said, "Is that even possible?" Good times. We all knew he was lying anyway, but some people did debate the possibility that it could be true, you know, in theory.
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:23 AM
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18. a great Tom Tomorrow cartoon |
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from a couple of years ago had Rove, Cheney and Bush as radical leftist hippies in the late 60s. They decided the best way to overthrow the system was to pretend to be Republicans and screw up so bad that they would discredit everything they stood for. As they kept screwing up (ignoring 9/11 warnings, Iraq, Katrina, etc) they were astounded that the right wing continued to support them. It ends up with them saying "What can we possibly do to make them throw us out?" The 27% that supported Bush at the end of his term wouldn't have gotten the joke.
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:22 PM
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45. Uh, you mean the Republican Party was great prior to Cheney? |
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My guess is that I'm just seeing an implication by proximity, but from my point of view, the Republicans haven't been great since they stopped being the more progressive party. Conservatives have generally sucked from what I can see.
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:29 AM
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6. poor Dick Cheeney, no one wants to play with him |
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that's what happens when you don't play nice
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:38 AM
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7. Putting him in prison, esp. in Syria, woud solve all our problems. nm |
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:14 AM
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15. Oh, sure. Pick on Syrians. |
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:39 AM
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8. Cheney: "I find your lack of faith disturbing. |
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Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 09:40 AM by Ian David
"Why don't you go fuck yourself with the greater magellanic cloud."
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:05 AM
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10. And they'll be apologizing to Rush for this soon n/t |
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:07 AM
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the title of this post.:patriot:
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:09 AM
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12. I encourage all of them to just keep talkin'--as often and as publicly as possible! |
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Is there ANY outspoken RRRepublican who isn't assisting the RRR's over the cliff?
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:17 AM
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16. Cheney's probably on the payroll of the Bush Legacy Project, better known as the |
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the largest history revision effort EVER. Ah, where is Goebbels when they need him most?
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:24 AM
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20. Lord Vader wants to create a kinder, gentler history regarding himself. |
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And he could give a shit less about Junior or the GOP. They wanted a CEO as veep and they got one. Too bad for them, this is the way they operate. People like Cheney will do anything at all if they think it will advance their own selfish interest.
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:25 AM
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21. Bush legacy project can also be named as |
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"lame excuses regurgitated for window-dressing and white-washing ugliness" project
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:17 AM
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17. Cheney to GOP: "Go fuck yourself." |
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He doesn't give a fat rat's ass about anything or anybody but himself (oh, and Scooter ...).
Bake
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:29 AM
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22. That episode damaged Lord Vader's image of omnipotence |
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That's the only reason he gave a shit about Scooter.
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:24 AM
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He makes a perfect target for President Obama to trash. He is unpopular and he can be cerebrally disassembled for the immense joy of viewers like me!
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:35 AM
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23. He needs to be in prison for war crimes period. |
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and of course he shouldn't be alone he can take his neo cons friends with him.
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Tue Mar-24-09 10:44 AM
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24. Wow, he's turning out to be even more persistent |
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than those big red weeping boils on his ass that kept him out of Vietnam.
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:30 PM
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47. That was Rush, Dickhead just had other priorities. |
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:00 AM
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25. I don't see how Dick could warn us about Pres Obama - his spying on us |
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Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 11:22 AM by peacetalksforall
is still going on as far as we know. Torture, imprisonment, renditions, no-fly, all of HS is still in place and Chertoff is still there. At this point in time, Cheney has little to find fault with. He's still in the government. His presence is still there. He conveniently (for him) removed all the money. And he sold all our nuclear secrets, pocketed the profits. And he's not consulting with his lawyers for the defense of his innocence pending Congressional or civil suits against him. The only thing he has to worry about are some world courts.
I know. The truth hurts.
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:01 AM
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26. May Cheney Infuriate the GOP So Much That They Decide to Prosecute Him |
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for treason, and then ship him off to the Hague for war crimes!
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:15 AM
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I hope that somewhere within the process of the GOP's image revamping they discover that adopting MORE liberal policies will benefit them and the American people. Evan http://www.beyondrace.com
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:29 AM
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28. They only wear their "American Hats" every fourth year. |
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Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 11:30 AM by 40ozDonkey
"I want to thank my fellow Republicans as we take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats" -- John McCain,
They'll never adopt liberal policies. Their politics are tied to their identities, anyone who is currently a proud Republican just hates Democrats more than they love America.
I know a handful of intelligent Republicans who voted for Obama this time around. The ones who didn't, are the ones who scream socialism and appeasement at any attempt to do things differently. The latter can't be helped, they can only be shamed. The former are all that's required to maintain this country, and so far they don't have any harsher criticisms for Obama than what I've read on these boards on any given sunday.
Americans can be worked with, they understand the need to use the best of both ideologies to succeed. Republican Hatters are just a selfish, treasonous disgrace. They can't be reached.
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:49 AM
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33. I am currently reading Joseph P. Lash's "Eleanor and Franklin", |
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and have just finished reading about their activities in the 1920's and Eleanor Roosevelt's growing political activism and social awareness and her influencing of FDR. It is truly astounding how the Republicans really haven't changed all that much in terms of their obstructionist let-them-all-die tactics and strategies. They were fighting against lowering the workweek from 54 to 48 hours against the establisment of a minimum wage, trotting out the old canard of "jobs will be lost", with businesses forcing their workers to testify against it. They were fighting against better working conditions (and the conditions in many workplaces at that time were simply horrendous, there was no such thing as OSHA or safety regulations and worker deaths were common). They were even against the abolition of child-labor laws or any laws easing working conditions for children; at that time, it was quite common for tenement and poor children as young as four and five to be working many hours a day in bad conditions. Incredibly, even the Catholic Church was against child-labor laws.
It's truly astounding just what greedy, cruel, mean-spirited, arrogant, elitist motherfuckers they were then and still are now. Of course, it wasn't just them, there were plenty of Business is King obstructionist Dems, too, just like there are now. But for the most part, at least in the eastern states (the Southern Dems were a different breed), they were the progressive, socially-minded ones.
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:33 AM
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29. Cheney reminds me of O.J.! |
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Rather than just being happy in the knowledge that he got away with murder, he feels compelled to remain in the limelight, chiding authorities until they nail him.
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Tue Mar-24-09 11:36 AM
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Tue Mar-24-09 12:33 PM
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35. I'd rather see the Dick out in the open where we can watch what he's doing . . .. |
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Tue Mar-24-09 01:43 PM
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36. yea, he is like a snake just slithering around. |
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Tue Mar-24-09 01:54 PM
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37. From what I've heard about Rumsfeld at the Pentagon ... |
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and about Kissinger . . . I wouldn't presume any of these people are just
"fading away" like old soldiers!!!
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Tue Mar-24-09 05:48 PM
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42. and I Say... Keep Up the Shit Talkin', Dick |
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You're doing a wonderful job. Hell, we see you more now than we ever did in the last eight years you ruled as a despot's sidekick.
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Tue Mar-24-09 06:27 PM
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44. Yeah, they don't need Dickhead's help to look like Nazi fascist assholes..nt |
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Tue Mar-24-09 09:28 PM
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46. I have a great undisclosed location for him... |
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