Cheney Follies-Our vice president is both a national joke and a national nightmare

[babylonsister]

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Cheney Follies
Our vice president is both a national joke and a national nightmare.

By Matthew Yglesias
Web Exclusive: 02.27.07

I'm not sure what part of it is that Nancy disagreed with. She accused me of questioning her patriotism. I didn't question her patriotism. I questioned her judgment. Al-Qaeda functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That's their fundamental underlying strategy. My statement was that if we adopt the Pelosi policy, that we will validate the strategy of al-Qaeda. I said it, and I meant it. And I'm not backing down.
-- Vice President Dick Cheney, February 23, 2007

Having your judgment questioned by Cheney must be a bit like having your intelligence insulted by a sea cucumber. (Or, as Jonathan Zasloff observes, having your racial sensitivity questioned by a longtime congressional defender of apartheid.)

Cheney is a joke. An embarrassment the White House has struggled for years to keep out of sight and muzzled. The kind of guy you send on a trip to Australia, which used to be an actual criminal punishment before the invention of airplanes. The only element of Pelosi's judgment I would question at all was her initial response to Cheney's first attack. It was during an earlier ABC interview that Cheney claimed that "if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we'll do is validate the al-Qaeda strategy." All Pelosi needed to do in response was note that if Dick Cheney thinks she and Murtha are badly wrong, they must be on the right track.

This is "Twenty-Nine Percent Approval" Cheney we're talking about. There was no need to "hope the President will repudiate and distance himself from the Vice President's remarks." She should have just smeared Cheney's remarks all over the White House and driven home the point that, in opposing Democratic efforts to change the course in Iraq, Bush is once again taking Cheney's advice -- a strategic approach that works exactly never.

Remember, Cheney also "cited the recent push by Iraqi forces to crack down on insurgent activity in Baghdad" as a success. Only the interview in which he did that was conducted on May 30, 2005. The same one, famously, in which he explained that "they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

If I will!

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[BOSSHOG]

1. cheney has to

fly off to Australia or hide behind the cowardly limbaugh's microphone to communicate with the ignorant trash that props him up. He had to get his wife pregnant to stay out of Vietnam. He had to depend on donald rumsfeld for a path in politics. And its sad to say but he "represented" the folks of Wyoming at one time. That's sad. And halliburton reached out to him when they needed a heartless corrupt motherfucker to "run" their business. A pathetic, hateful human being and the face of the republican party.

And what about that politics stops at the border nonsense? I guess it doesn't apply to miserable human beings.

[nitpicker]

2. If you want to know where Cheney will resurface

Look at the FR website.

[yellerpup]

3. Cheney is the one who

'functions on the basis that he thinks he can break our will." I admit, I often want to stab myself in the throat after hearing him spout his hateful rhetoric. I don't believe that 29% approve of him--maybe they don't dream of him on trial at the Hague like I do, but how could anyone approve? To call him a snake is to insult the snake. K&R! :kick:


Edited for k&r

[NJCher]

5. oh, is it up to 29?

Last I knew, it was 18!



Cher

[yellerpup]

6. Eighteen does seem more like it.

I took the figure from the OP. "This is "Twenty-Nine Percent Approval" Cheney we're talking about."

[The Blue Flower]

4. "Dick"

In the book "Dick," Cheney's biographer lists all of the screwups and scandals that took place in his wake in adminstration after administration. His career is a long litany of being wrong and causing trouble. It would be a good idea for someone to put all of his wrongs together in a single list. He's bad news, and has always been.