Dick Cheney joins his daughter alone on the GOP side of the House

[Recursion]

That is Dick Cheney standing next to his daughter (with a security person behind them). Alone on the Republican side for a moment of silence for the officers killed defending the Capitol a year ago.

The DU of old would not understand that Dick Cheney is somehow the least-untethered end of the GOP today.

[MagickMuffin]

1. So only one Representative from the republicon party had the gall to show up

And brought her daddy to work day.



APPALLING!

[Wounded Bear]

22. Rep Kinzinger said he was on baby watch...

doing the daddy thing today.

Excusable, I guess.

[wryter2000]

26. Okay

I can easily believe he has a good reason not to be there.

[MagickMuffin]

30. Yeah I heard that's why Adam wasn't there

But no one else even bother to pay respect to what happened on January 6. Especially showing respect to the ones who saved their rotting brains.

Oh well I don't ever expect much from them as far as being truly patriotic.

[Hekate]

50. "Baby watch" means the wife is about to give birth. Being there is pretty important. nt

[xmas74]

76. Very excusable

Babies show when they show. Last thing he needed was to be stuck dealing with an unknown situation when baby decided it was time.

[Walleye]

2. That's good. A little show of power

[orangecrush]

51. Tip of the iceberg, Walleye

Trust me on this.

I once worked in a firm that had Halliburton contracts, as well as Lockheed, Grumman, Hughes Missile, and much more.

These are not people to fuck with.

[azureblue]

56. Yep

His appearance sent so many messages-

I stand behind my daughter and what she is saying
By showing up and standing with her, I am refuting the GOP's position on backing Trump
I am badass enough to make this statement at such a critical and public time.

Take heed, you Trump lovin' GOPers - you are now on my enemies list. And you dare not do battle with me, because I have more power than all of you. You mess with my daughter, you mess with me. And you do not want to mess with me...

Now the Repub yoyos will ignore him.. And the hammer will come down..

This was huge...

[orangecrush]

67. They must be very stupid

Or deeply compromised.


Very well said, and your comment is 100% dead on.

[Mysterian]

78. The corrupt and evil Bush cabal helped bring us the Trump idiocracy

and the corrupt and evil Bush cabal (including the Cheneys) are intelligent enough to want nothing of an imbecilic dictator like Donald Fucking Trump.

[rgbecker]

3. I detest Dick Cheney with all my being.

His post 9/11 response including the illegal invasion of Iraq was despicable.

That said, it's nice to see he doesn't need a wheel chair and is feeling strong enough to stand with his daughter.

[PatSeg]

16. My mixed feelings about this are really unsettling

[Piasladic]

37. I just said some unkind things about Dick Cheney the other day when Harry Reid died.

I almost regretted it until I remembered the lies and torture.

People can be such mixed bags. Some love their country and hate its inhabitants. Some people die too young, and others live too long. Some, like Pence and Quayle, can shine in the critical moment and suck regularly.

[PatSeg]

74. Yes, very true

I suppose that is what makes Trump the most vile person on the planet. He is never a mixed bag and he never shines in critical moments. At least he is consistent though - a monster through and through, forever and ever.

[mountain grammy]

47. Yes very unsettling.

[SergeStorms]

43. I remembered what my grandmother told me...

"If you can't say something nice about somebody, don't say anything ".

My silence speaks volumes.

[elleng]

57. Dad's regular line: If you can't say anything nice,

don't say anything at all.

[SergeStorms]

60. The message is the same.

When I was young I hated all of those grownup witticisms unloaded on me.

Now I use them all the time. 🤔 I guess the older I got the smarter those grownups became. 😉

[orangecrush]

68. ...

[bedazzled]

77. If you can't say anything nice about someone

They are probably a republican

[bahboo]

4. That photo says all you need to know about

The repub party of today. Traitors and cowards. Fuck every last one of them...

[calimary]

61. Consider it this way - YES to everything you said. And the ONE anomaly to that was Dick Cheney.

His staunchly Republican daughter, Liz, continues to acquit herself with nobility and truth - at least on this issue.

Can't believe I have anything nice to say about her dad, but in this one particular case, I do. VERY surprised to see him there, standing with his daughter, who's standing with the Dems.

One from the "Now, I've seen everything" file.

[MustLoveBeagles]

73. Agreed on all points

I was glad to see them both there.

[Bettie]

5. When a couple of Cheneys are

the "decent" part of your party, well, there's a problem.

[Raster]

20. No shit!!!

[Wounded Bear]

23. Indeed! nt

[crickets]

52. Yes indeed. nt

[EarlG]

6. Pretty amazing

It's a telling scene in another way, too. It was Cheney and his peers who were responsible for sowing the seeds of today's GOP. They used another national tragedy, 9/11, to drive a partisan wedge down the middle of the country, and fanned the flames of the "with us or against us" mentality -- the idea that you either stood unquestioningly with the GOP or you were a traitor to America -- to gain and retain power. As part of their electoral strategy, they gave quiet legitimacy to the extremist rantings of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the rest.

Dick Cheney is not dumb -- he and his buddies knew that they were playing with fire. They just thought they could control it, and use it for their own personal gain. And of course, the fire got out of control and burned their house down. And now look at him, standing there on his own. Meanwhile the rest of his political party is somewhere else -- currently, trying to downplay a deadly partisan assault on the U.S. Capitol Building by Republicans who wanted to violently overturn a presidential election won by a Democrat.

That's Cheney's legacy. He's doing the right thing by standing up in this manner, of course. But I wonder if he feels even the slightest twinge of responsibility.

[leftstreet]

7. He's just using another national tragedy

It's the neocon playbook

And now he's launching his daughter's bid to regain control of the GOP and be their 2024 frontrunner

[FoxNewsSucks]

10. That's what I think also.

Mainly, the nutbags are in their way. Secondarily, she's using this to appear normal, patriotic, sincere etc. I've always expected her to run for president

[evolves]

8. Prescient quote from JFK:

[msfiddlestix]

21. Spot on. exactly my feelings

But you articulated much better than I ever could.

Good question you ask here:

But I wonder if he feels even the slightest twinge of responsibility.

I seriously doubt it. I have yet to see any evidence to that effect, unless this particular day he feels duty bound on some level is evidence of modicum of conscience and personal responsibility.

But somehow, I just don't believe he does.

[Sogo]

32. Dick Cheney trying to rehabilitate his image

on the back of the gigantic f-up that was the former President?

[orangecrush]

44. Slightest twinge of responsibility

I agree.

I am amazed to see him standing there.

[bullwinkle428]

9. I'm going to assume he voted for Chump twice, just like his daughter.

[dalton99a]

28. +1

https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/06/politics/dick-cheney-donald-trump/index.html

Cheney says he will support Trump
By Tom LoBianco, CNN
Updated 5:44 AM EDT, Sat May 7, 2016

Former Vice President Dick Cheney will support Donald Trump, he told CNN Friday, an important move as the presumptive Republican nominee is encountering intense resistance from senior members of his own party.

The announcement makes Cheney one of the few Republican Party elders to announce their support of Trump and comes a day after House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNN he is “just not ready” to back Trump.

Former President George W. Bush, who Cheney served, said this week he would skip this summer’s Republican convention where Trump will be formally nominated. Former President George H.W. Bush and John McCain and Mitt Romney, the GOP’s 2008 and 2012 nominees, also don’t plan to attend the convention.

[ShazamIam]

11. Impressive and moving, but let's remember, He and W did subvert an election, successfully.

[OnDoutside]

12. Where was Kinzinger ?

[maxsolomon]

14. Or the others who voted to Impeach?

Where was Jr.? Where were all the Trumpists who resigned in protest on 1/7, like DeVos & Chao?

I guess they objected to it being "political"?

[wryter2000]

27. See upthread

He's on "baby watch." Sounds like his wife is about to give birth.

[OnDoutside]

70. Thanks, that's a good positive reason.

[Fla Dem]

13. Sad picture. No Republicans to honor the officers that kept them safe, not only on 1/6 but always.

No respect for anyone except their own self interests.

[spanone]

15. Adam Kinzinger is on baby watch or he would be there.

He said so on cnn earlier today.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. TWO Republicans show up? And one isn't a current member and is related to the other one?

Sick.

[wryter2000]

25. Be grateful

Congresspeople are speaking right now about 1/6. I would NOT want Gym Jordan getting up to speak. Let them hide like the roaches they are.

[Pepsidog]

18. Hell has frozen over as I am applauding the Cheneys.

[orangecrush]

45. Icicles

On the gates of hell!

[Lemon Lyman]

19. Wow

Dick Cheney has done incredibly well health-wise with all of the heart issues he's had. Dude has a heart transplant 10 years ago in March, and he'll be 81 at the end of the month. Look at all this from his Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Health_problems):

Cheney's long histories of cardiovascular disease and periodic need for urgent health care raised questions of whether he was medically fit to serve in public office.[201] Having smoked approximately 3 packs of cigarettes per day for nearly 20 years,[202] Cheney had his first of five heart attacks on 18 June 1978,[203] at age 37. Subsequent heart attacks in 1984, 1988, on 22 November 2000, and on 22 February 2010 resulted in moderate contractile dysfunction of his left ventricle.[204][205][clarification needed] He underwent four-vessel coronary artery bypass grafting in 1988, coronary artery stenting in November 2000, urgent coronary balloon angioplasty in March 2001, and the implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator in June 2001.[204]

On September 24, 2005, Cheney underwent a six-hour endo-vascular procedure to repair popliteal artery aneurysms bilaterally, a catheter treatment technique used in the artery behind each knee.[206] The condition was discovered at a regular physical in July, and was not life-threatening.[207] Cheney was hospitalized for tests after experiencing shortness of breath five months later. In late April 2006, an ultrasound revealed that the clot was smaller.[206]

On March 5, 2007, Cheney was treated for deep-vein thrombosis in his left leg at George Washington University Hospital after experiencing pain in his left calf. Doctors prescribed blood-thinning medication and allowed him to return to work.[208] CBS News reported that during the morning of November 26, 2007, Cheney was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and underwent treatment that afternoon.[206]

On July 12, 2008, Cheney underwent a cardiological exam; doctors reported that his heartbeat was normal for a 67-year-old man with a history of heart problems. As part of his annual checkup, he was administered an electrocardiogram and radiological imaging of the stents placed in the arteries behind his knees in 2005. Doctors said that Cheney had not experienced any recurrence of atrial fibrillation and that his special pacemaker had neither detected nor treated any arrhythmia.[209] On October 15, 2008, Cheney returned to the hospital briefly to treat a minor irregularity.[210]

On January 19, 2009, Cheney strained his back "while moving boxes into his new house". As a consequence, he was in a wheelchair for two days, including his attendance at the 2009 United States presidential inauguration.[211][212]

On February 22, 2010, Cheney was admitted to George Washington University Hospital after experiencing chest pains. A spokesperson later said Cheney had experienced a mild heart attack after doctors had run tests.[205] On June 25, 2010, Cheney was admitted to George Washington University Hospital after reporting discomfort.[213]

In early-July 2010, Cheney was outfitted with a left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute to compensate for worsening congestive heart failure.[214] The device pumped blood continuously through his body.[215][216] He was released from Inova on August 9, 2010,[217] and had to decide whether to seek a full heart transplant.[218][219] This pump was centrifugal and as a result he remained alive without a pulse for nearly fifteen months.[220]

On March 24, 2012, Cheney underwent a seven-hour heart transplant procedure at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Woodburn, Virginia. He had been on a waiting list for more than 20 months before receiving the heart from an anonymous donor.[221][222] Cheney's principal cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, advised his patient that "it would not be unreasonable for an otherwise healthy 71-year-old man to expect to live another 10 years" with a transplant, saying in a family-authorized interview that he considered Cheney to be otherwise healthy.[223]

[orangecrush]

46. Cheney' heart

Was flown in an SR-71 to Walter Reed from Area 51

[erronis]

64. Chilled to -459F (Absolut zero) and inserted into his cardiac cavity.

Still down at Absolut zero but beating to his own drummer.

(Absolut is on purpose - guy likes a swig or two.)

Funny? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney

Dick was from Devizes and had balls of many different sizes - one was so small it was hardly at all whilst the other won several prizes.

[orangecrush]

65. ....

[wryter2000]

24. I can find it in my heart to embrace Liz Cheney's work on 1/6

Her father is a loathsome war criminal. I will never see him as a hero in any situation.

[FakeNoose]

29. With all the airlines cancelling flights since before Christmas

... maybe some couldn't get to Washington in time. It would have affected both Dems and Repukes equally. We know why Tim Kaine didn't make it to work today.

I don't know, but maybe the Cheney's own a private plane? Or perhaps a close friend gives them rides on a private jet? There could be more to this.

But yeah, for the most part, the Repukes are chicken-shit.

[orangecrush]

38. Dick Cheney

Was teleported by a secret CIA project developed in a trade agreement with aliens that we won't be made public for another hundred years.

(Snark)

[Sogo]

31. Like many here, I have mixed feelings about this picture.

Liz Cheney has gained my sincere respect.

Her father, not so much....

[twodogsbarking]

33. Me too but at least there is some recognition of right from wrong.

[Sogo]

34. Yeah, but as I posted above,

Dick Cheney trying to rehabilitate his image on the back of the gigantic f-up that was the former President....

[orangecrush]

40. He is in his final years

And I don't think he gives a fuck about his "image".

I am not a fan either, but give him my grudging respect.

[ShazzieB]

63. This is about where I am.

He's literally living on borrowed time at this point, and he damned well knows it. Image schmimage.

[orangecrush]

66. Same here

And I agree.

[Sogo]

82. My bad....Wrong choice of words....

Should be rehabilitate his "legacy."

[xmas74]

79. Is it that or is it because it's his daughter?

Maybe it's just him still supporting his daughter. Everyone knows today's GOP has no respect for her. He flies in and stands beside her as the former veep who still holds lots of crazy level power with security contractors and energy contractors worldwide. (Read it as the people who can dry up most big dark money political contributions and the people who can track someone's every movement.)

I don't see it as rehabilitation of his image. I see it as a doubling down. He's there to remind them that he has power the Trumplikans can't imagine and to maybe think twice before they take aim at his kid. Idc how old your kid is- that's still your kid. And 80 something year old parents get just as defensive when they see their kid smeared by a group.

The rest is secondary.

[Tickle]

35. makes me miss my father nt

[orangecrush]

49. Same here

[orangecrush]

36. Holy shit

I was completely opposed to DIck Cheney and what he represented during the Bush years.

I have a grudging respect for his support for his daughter against the Trump fellators.

I also have a grudging respect that this man ran a legitimate multinational corporation, as opposed to Trump who made his living as a grifter, carnival barker and con artist, not to mention peddling his ass to Putin.

Lastly, grudging respect that Dick Cheney is an immensely powerful man, who demonstrated by his actions today that he has some decency and decorum.

And, with his CIA connections, I wonder if the traitors are going to live to regret putting their chips on Trump and Putin.

[Autumn]

39. Cheney. Reaping a small part of what he has sown. Fuck him.

[orangecrush]

42. Understand that

But Cheney never tried to have a mob murder people to stop an election.

If he is willing to use his power and influence to stop these scumbags, I'll take it.

[Autumn]

53. I remember differently. Google the Brooks Brothers Riot.

I wouldn't take a damn thing from that scumbag.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brooks-brothers-riot-trump_n_5fa44256c5b623bfac4d4043

And that’s when chaos struck. On Nov. 22, under the pretense of an organic uprising of concerned citizens, dozens of paid Republican operatives descended on the recount center, where they shouted and banged on windows, kicking and punching several officials in a violent stampede. The proximate target of their ire was Joe Geller, the chairman of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party, whom they falsely accused of trying to steal ballots — who had, in fact, merely requested a single sample ballot to test the theory that a machine error was responsible for an undercount of Gore votes.
Feel familiar yet?

A snapshot of the Brooks Brothers Riot, in which dozens of paid Republican operatives pretending to be concerned citizens descended on election workers recounting ballots to determine whether Al Gore or George W. Bush won Florida's electoral votes in the 2000 presidential election.
A snapshot of the Brooks Brothers Riot, in which dozens of paid Republican operatives pretending to be concerned citizens descended on election workers recounting ballots to determine whether Al Gore or George W. Bush won Florida's electoral votes in the 2000 presidential election.REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHER / REUTERS
“This one guy was tripping me and pushing me and kicking me,” Geller later recalled to The Washington Post. “At one point, I thought if they knocked me over, I could have literally got stomped to death.”

Because the ersatz protesters wore button-up shirts and ties more befitting congressional staffers rather than, say, random people who happened to be on vacation in Florida, the incident became known as the Brooks Brothers Riot. And indeed, its participants include a who’s who of GOP operatives then and now. As Rachel Maddow memorably summarized, the “spontaneous” protest photo above included 10 GOP staffers, including aides to Reps. Tom Delay, Van Hilleary, Don Young and Jim Ross Lightfoot, and Sens. Fred Thompson and Jim DeMint. Then-Rep. John Sweeney set the whole thing off by urging a crowd to “shut it down.” Convicted felon and President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone claims to have been the riot’s architect, although his account is disputed by Bush consultant Brad Blakeman, who claims credit as well.
This mob’s actual target was not just Geller but the process in which he played just a small part: the constitutionally mandated and imminently feasible fair count of all votes cast by Miami-Dade citizens. By creating the perception of public unrest, the rioters made clear to county officials that a social cost would be extracted if they continued to perform these legal obligations.

The gambit worked. The Gore campaign, fixated on and trusting of the legal process, was caught flat-footed, and had not planned a comparable counter-mobilization. Mere hours after the riot, the board voted unanimously to suspend the count, citing, in part, the protests. “This was perceived as not being an open and fair process. That weighed heavy on our mind,” the supervisor of elections, David Leavy, told The New York Times.

[colorado_ufo]

41. I think he is there to support his daughter,

and I am glad. Liz is doing a stellar job on the committee, and she does not seem to have another agenda. She sacrificed her career in the Republican party.

[SCantiGOP]

54. but it is amazing to realize

that the GOP has gone so far off the rails that even Darth Cheney looks good by comparison.

[colorado_ufo]

71. Ain't it th' truth?

[ColinC]

48. I imagine ads that include this fact will be very effective this fall...

[catbyte]

55. You know that the republicans are truly lost when Darth Cheney is one of two

members of the party that recognizes how close we came to losing it all on January 6, 2021. But he enabled this clusterfuck that is currently the GQP, so he can go to hell. But I'm glad he came. You know what I mean. I'm so confused...

Damn. I used to call the Bush/Cheney administration "the Dark Times." How naive I was.

[HUAJIAO]

58. What's HE doing there?

[DownriverDem]

62. Pretty simple

He's supporting his daughter. History will be kind to her.

[obamanut2012]

75. Supporting his daughter and Nancy Pelosi

He is an evil fuck, and I disagree with his daughter on basically all policy, but she will be remembered in a very positive way in future history books.

[Deep State Witch]

59. Who'da Thunk It?

We'd find a bunch of Repigs more evil than Darth Cheney?

[orangecrush]

69. It is incredible

[Progressive Jones]

72. The rest of the Republicans were probably having sex with teenagers. nt

[MandelaObama]

80. Credit where credit is due

Both to Dick for in this circumstance and Liz for consistently being on the right side of history with her consistently principled and courageous stance on the insurrection.

That having been said, the Bush-Cheney Administration did in large part lay the foundations for the rise of Trump, just as the Reagan Administration did in large part lay the foundations for the disastrous tenure of the Bush-Cheney Administration

[MarcA]

81. Maybe some PR groundwork for Liz 2024.

Especially if it is Liz vs Kamala.