Category: Cheney
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How bad is the BP spill?
Watch this video, which will sadden and disgust you. And yes, Dick Cheney deserves much of the blame, and that’s not a liberal talking point. It’s fact. His secret energy task force decided that the remote control switches, which cost $500,000, were too costly for the industry to shoulder (sources include the Wall Street Journal […]
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the irrelevance of modern conservatism
I don’t root for it, by the way. I’d rather the right be relevant, but that won’t happen as long as its major influences are a callous, hypocritical blowhard, a messianic Mormon, an unrepentant nihilist and Sarah Palin. By a wide margin, Americans consider Rush Limbaugh the nation’s most influential conservative voice. Those are the […]
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have they forgotten?
Those yearning for a third term by Dick Cheney must be sadists or masochists. Or both. If Cheney had indeed been calling the shots, we’d be mired in THREE quagmires. *Afghanistan. Call it Obama’s war all you want, but the only thing he’s done differently in nine months (compared to the seven years the previous […]
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tortured logic
WALLACE: So even these cases where they went beyond the specific legal authorization, you’re OK with it? CHENEY: I am. John McCain dissents, which is sure to inflame Republicans who’d rather follow the lead of draft dodgers and the morbidly obese. Besides, what would McCain know about torture? Before responding with Fat Bastard’s talking points, […]
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who do you trust, conservatives?
Most on the right seem to accept as gospel Dick “We will be greeted as liberators” Cheney’s assertion that America is less safe because we no longer torture. Gen. David Petraeus, who saved the administration’s ass in Iraq, disagrees. I know the Washington Post won’t dissuade many conservatives, but their reporting here is thorough. In […]
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i’ll miss his humility most at all
In his first television interview since the presidential election in November, Cheney displayed no regrets and gave no ground to his many critics within America and around the world. He summed up his record by saying: “I think, given the circumstances we’ve had to deal with, we’ve done pretty well.”