Cheney has replaced Sarah Palin as Rogue Diva »
Posted By gamahuche 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsCheney has replaced Sarah Palin as Rogue Diva. Just as Jeb Bush and other Republicans are trying to get kinder and gentler, Cheney has popped out of his dungeon, scary organ music blaring, to carry on his nasty campaign of fear and loathing.
The man who never talked is now the man who won’t shut up. The man who wouldn’t list his office in the federal jobs directory, who had the vice president’s residence blocked on Google Earth, who went to the Supreme Court to keep from revealing which energy executives helped him write the nation’s energy policy, is now endlessly yelping about how President Obama is holding back documents that should be made public.
Cheney, who had five deferments himself to get out of going to Vietnam, would rather follow a blowhard entertainer who has had three divorces and a drug problem (who also avoided Vietnam) than a four-star general who spent his life serving his country.
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 3 weeks ago
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FTA
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"He has no coherent foreign policy viewpoint. He still doesn’t fathom that his brutish invasion of Iraq unbalanced that part of the world, empowered Iran and was a force multiplier for Muslims who hate America. He left our ports unsecured, our food supply unsafe, the Taliban rising and Osama on the loose. No matter if or when terrorists attack here — and they’re on their own timetable, not a partisan red/blue state timetable — Cheney will be deemed the primary one who made America more vulnerable."
This guy is a portrait of insanity, being veiwed as relevant by the insane who believe him.
He thinks that America is the only viable country in the world.
What is scary is how many still back the raging lunatic.-
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Beau78905 months, 3 weeks ago
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Yes, it is scary how many are fooled into thinking Cheney's rants are anything but politicking.
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For someone who called dissent unpatriotic and anti-American and accused those who opposed his policies publicly of helping the enemy, Cheney certainly isn't following any of his own ideas.
To anyone who thinks Cheney's continual criticism about America being unsafe under Obama's policies reflects a genuine concern about the security of this country, I have to ask this:
Why is Dick on TV saying this, where our enemies can hear him? Why isn't he submitting his ideas for making us safer to Obama through private channels? -
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Radiofreeeuropa5 months, 3 weeks ago
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8 years hiding in an undisclosed location...now glaring from behind the primordial ooze dripping from every TV screen spouting the most obtuse nonsense ever concocted by any collection of protoplasmic cells ever assembled. Go back to your undisclosed location please. Darken our towels no more.
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gamahuche5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Hi Beau, Radio, CBGP! I guess you guys are all burning the midnight oil while I'm in crack-of-dawn mode. I must say it feels reassuring to have some human company after having invoked the undead!
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I think an extra shot of slivovice is called for this morning to ward off the other spirits!
Your health, gentlemen!
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gamahuche5 months, 3 weeks ago
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I like Maureen Dowd! Paul Krugman too, but Cheney as rogue diva was an irresistible image, even at 4 something a.m. after a late work session.
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I got a picture of him in a blue dress and lots of scarlet lipstick, more Cockette than coquette, naturally (or presumably).
What the heck IS his game right now??
I would have expected him to have already been long gone - bags pre-packed for an immediate getaway to S. America the moment that his time was up. And here he is still cavorting around, flapping his lips, larger than life and somewhat less than half-as-natural. He was always scarier than GWB whose pungent farts-for-the-interns never allowed me(or probably poor Laura)to seriously consider him as a full-grown man..
What next! Can it get worse?-
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Radiofreeeuropa5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well the image of Cheney in drag is a bit much for my gastronomic system...which is detracting from the inherent humor. But he is contributing to turning the GOP into a quaint anachronism.
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Since 1 party rule is not palatable, I would say now is the time for a new political party to take it's place. If libertarians focused on their social issues and didn't reveal their dark side (they are mostly GOPers who have been indicted, and their views on operating the federal government are less practicable and realistic than crossing Plato's Republic with Disneyland as a political model) they could easily become the new major party. The greens need more issues....maybe the socialists? There needs to be legitimate debate and watchdog-ing and the GOP is intellectually incapable of providing it in it's modern state.
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antibrainwasher5 months, 3 weeks ago
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That's what's happening fr5, in his senile phase, the Murdering Coward Chickenhawk Cheney cannot resist the spotlight and camera, like a sick vampire cant resist virgin blood.
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But, Jesus on a jetski, isn't it nice to not see the Villiage Idiot Chimpanzee's bumbling yet cocky face on the TV. Excuse me, I just threw up a little in my mouth writing that.
I hope Cheney lives a long and talkative live, since he is sucking the Repugs dry. That being said, should a glob of fat from his Yellow Belly Cowards arse squeeze through his hard arterys and clog his black heart and explode his diseased brain, I would be first in line to urinate on his grave.
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TheNewsseeker5 months, 3 weeks ago
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It belongs to the basic political talents to search for the right advisors, who are not only competent and reliable, but also have enough brain to see, where they are wrong and where they should rethink their strategy. Dick Cheney, up to now, hasn´t learned anything and was one of the disgusting ingredients that made the political mixture of the Bush administration so indigestible for the Democratic America and the rest of the world!
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myfairlady5 months, 3 weeks ago
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antibrainwasher5 months, 3 weeks ago
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A black eye for the party of black heart greed.
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Jeb Bush called a special session for Terry Shivo, spitting on hundreds of years of precident law, and causing the collapse of the repug revolution.
That was the turning point, repugs legislating between and man and his brain dead wife.
Jeb Bush is a sellout, principle-less coward, and he reminds me of Glen Goebbles Beck. A chickenhawk coward who would say anything as long as his hyena pack of lockstepping greed merchants can get thier talons on power and government no bid money. -
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Hhussk5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Poor nihiliberals, is this all you got today?
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It's humorous how easily you can be baited into a forum about Cheney or Palin, but scared off from talking the actual issues of the day.
This must be torture to you, because as we speak, Pelosi is trying to call the CIA a bunch of liars. Down she goes...
By all means, prove Cheney wrong. Oh wait, you'd have to actually release documents and be "transparent" for that. Let's see, which President ran on transparenecy? Oh, I guess not.-
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alakazam5 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t48kkwDhfw
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CRYMTYPHON5 months, 3 weeks ago
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It's hhusk!
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Here to pity us!
And he is right; we are torturing ourselves over Mr. Dick .
At least my ribs hurt, and I am not the only one laughing.
But we aren't trying to prove him wrong.
We proved that long ago.
We were just laughing at the US's sad, bad, mad ex-VP;
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jimdoze5 months, 3 weeks ago
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It is fun to watch the lunatic left go batsh*t about Dick Cheney.
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Cheney is spot on... and the reason it gets the chattering class's knickers in such a twist is because deep down they know the argument is about how we view the world. How we view the world governs our actions... and our actions have everything to do with world peace and global prosperity. Cheney has garnered the moniker "doomsday Dick" because he sees clearly how bad things could get when a faulty world view produces counterproductive foreign policy actions. As such, he is far more in tune with reality than the chattering left could ever hope to be.
As a comparative note, it is too bad that the Senate and House of Representatives did not, over the last few years, have someone with a similar way of looking at things in charge of the Senate Banking Committee and as the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee.-
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willottica5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Dick Cheney is far from spot on:
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FTA: “Well, then you’d have to say that, in effect, we’re prepared to sacrifice American lives rather than run an intelligent interrogation program that would provide us the information we need to protect America,” Doomsday Dick said.
In short, you'd have to sacrifice American lives to protect American values and freedom. Exactly what patriots did in the Civil war. What people fought for in WWI and WWII. What Americans have claimed to be fighting and sacrificing their lives for in EVERY war the country has waged.
American soldiers are not risking their lives to support torture and oppression; they're risking their lives to try to end it.
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Commodore15 months, 3 weeks ago
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I'm thankful for people like Cheney and Palin. It's interesting to see how much they scare liberals. To me Palin is a true American hero. She has character, intelligence, and raw nerve. Attributes like this are foreign to liberals. They are concepts that liberals simply can't grasp. The concepts that totally disrupt the brain washed drone-like thinking of the nazi liberals. It's almost like a comedy show to watch liberals react. I would say the liberals remind me of the Three Stooges when they react but I have more respect for the Three Stooges than I do for the liberals. A million miles more.
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gamahuche5 months, 3 weeks ago
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This may be a lovely way to view the world from your particular little "mon repos" but unfortunately this very elementary black-white type of thinking is as impressive as a fart in a thunderstorm whenever you venture out from your sheltered enclave into the big bad world. Where in the rest of the world is the US currently, post Iraq, post Guantanamo - well almost post - actually making any headway whatsoever in regard to hearts and minds??
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Obama did EXTREMELY well in Europe, starting with Berlin but the last politician from the US who actually won any respect for the US in the rest of the world was Bill Clinton!
Flawed as he may have been he did possess the common touch and his programme on his short visit to the Czech Republic was a flawless performance which touched the hearts of millions of people..
But I suppose in Peoria or wherever you hang your hat concepts like international friendship and relations are not valued so highly.
Oh and of course Mr McCain did manage to get his ass to some German diner in a shopping mall somewhere while Obama was in Berlin, in an attempt to stteal his thunder and had bratwurst with a couple of folks. Nice of him really.. -
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Desdamona5 months, 3 weeks ago
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"She has character, intelligence, and raw nerve...." for a minute I thought you had switched the conversation Hillary... Did you really say intelligence? And character - if character is making rape victims pay for their own rape kits (police evidence gatering). Hmmm well you didn't say what kind of character.
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dunkirk5 months, 3 weeks ago
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"She has character, intelligence, and raw nerve. "
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ROFLMAO, that HAS to be one of the best spin jobs Ive seen in a while for Palin. But then again you need to consider the avg neo con on here, Palin has character? She used her position as governor to bypass the law and fire someone, Intelligence? She believed Africa was a country and that she had ample international experience watching Putin fly over Alaska not t mention being able to see Russia out her kitchen window. Raw nerve? that might be the closest since she did have the audacity to use GOP money to buy clothes for her family not to mention using a downs syndrome child as a political, prop.
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Poulenc5 months, 3 weeks ago
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It's hard to know what exactly Chaney's game is (besides the usual need of the endlessly narcissistic/power mad to remain in the public eye): to redress wrongs; to cover his posterior; to keep a hand in the Repub machine and/or attempt to subvert Obama and the Dems; all of the above.
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CRYMTYPHON5 months, 3 weeks ago
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not good enough, Poulenc.
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Now you owe us another post.
Make it interesting, with a flavor of humour touched by human tragedy.
Throw in a kitten with a hurt paw trudging thru the snow on christmas eve,
but make it politicaly topicaly relevant too.
Also Gama wants something in there about Czech beer but you can skip that.
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alakazam5 months, 3 weeks ago
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The "buddy system" is just exactly what it is DW...he has been moving around behind the scenes for decades. The folks who signed on to the PNAC are thicker than thieves.
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There is no telling what the man may have been involved in. He has clearly been operating above the Law. He has covered them...they have covered him. -
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BB645 months, 3 weeks ago
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This simply makes me laugh. When Gore or Kerry attacked Bush, it was a patriotic thing to protest. Now "Cheney is being too negative."
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We're using your rule book better get used to it:
1 ) Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2 ) Never go outside the experience of your people. It may result in confusion, fear and retreat.
3 ) Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear and retreat.
4 ) Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules.
5 ) Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
6 ) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7 ) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8 ) Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9 ) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10 ) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11 ) If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
12 ) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13 ) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.-
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dunkirk5 months, 3 weeks ago
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ROFLMAO, maybe you better look over your rules those are the tactics of the Bush Administration and Republicans for quite a while now. Arent you ever afraid your Swiss Company will somehow figure out they emply you and that the tax losses you provide with your astute business sense arent really worth it?
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CRYMTYPHON5 months, 3 weeks ago
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I have seen many good democrats run in my time.
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I have seen many good republicans run.
I might be older.
Your inability to admit any virtue of inteligence or patriotism to Obama,
despite his incredible achievments, - is not news.
Like I said, it was why you lost.
I had no idea that all those networks were ours!
They keep annoying me with pics of Dick Cheney and his daughter and Rush and Steele all trashing my President.
If those are our networks we libs are incredibly more honest than I gave us credit for.
As for socialism, and communism - they are indeed failed systems.
They failed in Europe, and they will fail in China.
You believe American workers can not compete against a marxist slave
labour system;
- unless we abandon our labor laws, our clean air and water rules,
and all ambition to have a free and educated working class.
And so become temp slaves in global corportation sweat shops ourselves.
But Americans can compete against the chinese system.
They will fail; we will bury them.
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CRYMTYPHON5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Sorry, BB64;
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but there is no victory in your weird list of tactics.
Your string of rules are 13 ways to say:
lie about your enemy .
If that had been a good strategy, you would have won in 2008.
You had a rain of lies in the air,
- the birth certificate idiocy
- terrorist-connection conspiracy,
- the 'elitist' label
- the 'not really a harvard scholar' libel.
- hates the flag nonsense
etc to sad etcetera.
Good Rove stuff; quality lies.
But you lost.
You had a good man for your candidate;
a war hero, an experienced political rebel;
You ignored him.
You put all your work into lies:
in cheap attacks and the fox-news frauds,
- and you lost.
We spent our time talking about our guy;
saying Obama was a brilliant young politician
with new ideas and a great grasp of the problems.
It worked.
Trash your list, BB64. Try this:
- Find good candidates and tell the truth about them.
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Progressive5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Uncle Dick and his entranced followers:
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thesatyr015 months, 3 weeks ago
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Once again, the party that claims "tolerance" shows it's stripes as the party of hate and intolerance. Way to go,Dems. I guess anyone who doesn't goose step to Obama and his liberal agenda are now to be considered insane or demonized and thus marginalized. This is starting to feel like the early 1930s again.
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BB645 months, 3 weeks ago
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Actually, he's doing the job of a former Vice President. When the other side attacks the record of the past President, generally it's the former VP that plays attack dog. Carter really was the first president to break that rule. When he lost his bid for reelection he started sniping at Reagan from day one. Even while on the flight to Germany to meet with the hostages held by the Iranians, Carter took a shot or two at Reagan. Bush 41 didn't attack Clinton and Clinton didn't attack Bush 43 that much. Even when Clinton staffers damaged White House equipment and did around $2M in damage, Bush 43 never criticized Clinton. I am very unimpressed with Obama and his continued attacks on Bush 43.
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As to Cheney, he will be around for a while. Who do you think released the info on Pelosi attending the Water Boarding meetings? Who do you think will release information concerning Dodd and Frank as the Freddie and Fannie collapse is investigated? Who do you think released the information concerning what the UAW contributed to the Obama campaign? If your side continues to go after the conservatives, it's only going to get messy. There's a lot more dirt on your side of the isles.
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BB645 months, 3 weeks ago
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You know there's a few problems with that whole story. No one is willing to officially put their name on record for hearing him say this. One other important thing to know about President Bush is his respect for the Oval Office. He thinks of it as almost hallowed ground. He will not enter the office without a jacket and tie. He will never swear in it. He has publicly stated that he feels a connection to past leaders and understands the reverence the Office holds. The history made there is special to him. The last thing, he sees America as Reagan does. The shining city on a hill. Protecting that city are our laws based on our Constitution. He is right that it is simply a piece of paper, it's not a living document as some "scholars" try to claim. It is the basis of freedom. America is what dreams are made of.
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Neg me all you want, I'm used to it being one of 4 conservatives still left here. I know President Bush never said that.
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donald515 months, 3 weeks ago
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OTHER REPUGS BEING DECENT? You have to be kidding!
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Do you mean the ones that want to secede or are pushing revolution so everybody should get their assault weapons now while you can still get them without a background check at those right wing, gun shows?
Or do you mean all those senior repugs (at least 6 now) who have criticized Oxycontin Rush only to have to apologize to the evil man later?
Torture, preemptive war, loss of habeas corpus, eavesdropping, gitmo, etc..... Dumya said the "Constitution is just a piece of paper!"
Dumya only did what all the repugs in Congress supported him on, thus revealing the true terrorist nature of the repugs altogether! The RNC is a terrorist organization in America! -
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