Archive for 'Dick Cheney'

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Headlines You’ll Never See At The Huffington Post, Part One

Documents Support Cheney’s Shooting Account (hey, Jane, I’m still waiting for that lull in the story to end)…

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Monday, February 20th, 2006

Quailgate: That’s SO Last Week!

How do we know for certain that the Scandal of the Century, the final nail in the coffin of the Fourth Reich of George W. Bush, has run its course in a scant seven days?
Even the Huffington Post is getting tired of flogging it…
For a look back on one of the stupidest frenzies of modern […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, February 19th, 2006

A Little of This, A Little of That

Joe Klein is quite good today on l’affaire Cheney…not so Bill Clinton…
The Huffington Post hilariously titles their main ’story’ Week 2 in an attempt to keep flogging the dead horse of the Cheney story…
Good article in the WaPo on the difficulty of keeping information censored in a wired China…
Is Kofi Annan hopelessly corrupt? The […]

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Sunday, February 19th, 2006

The Smell of Desperation

How many moments have spelled out, for the true-blue Bush hater, the end of his ‘imperial presidency’? The Downing Street Memo, Cindy Sheehan, Katrina, Plamegate, the NSA eavesdropping leak - all of these, and many others, have been grasped at eagerly by an audience united in its feeling that George W. Bush’s presidency is not […]

14 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Friday, February 17th, 2006

Alec Baldwin: A Study in Psychosis

What - and I do mean what - in the HELL is Alec Baldwin smoking? In a post that laughably asks what kind of civil suit Harry Whittington will file against Cheney(!!!!), Baldwin inflates Cheney’s one beer at lunch, five hours before the incident, into ‘a few beers’, then, bizarrely, asserts the following:
…[T]his is […]

10 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Friday, February 17th, 2006

Whittington Speaks

No doubt by now you’ve noted the whimper with which l’affaire Cheney has extinguished, as Harry Whittington was released from the hostpital after going on the record as the 4th person to say alcohol was not involved in the hunting accident, and apologized for all the fuss, decent fellow that he is…
A lot of people […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Does The Vice President Have the Authority to Declassify Information? - Part 2

Recently, with the help of our good friend Jacques, we tried to untangle the question of whether Cheney can declassify information (Jacques was good enough to point us to Executive Order 13292, which he stated allowed the Vice President to do so only if secretly authorized by the President, if the information originated somewhere besides […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Dick Cheney, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Juan Cole, Wit of the Left

Juan Cole is up for best writing in the 2005 Koufax Awards, and it’s no wonder with pure gold like this, titled Top Ten Ways Iraq Is Like Harry Whittington:
1. Cheney attacked secular Iraq, mistaking it for an ally of Usamah Bin Laden. Cheney attacked Harry Whittington, mistaking him for a small bird.
…3. Cheney did […]

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Thursday, February 16th, 2006

CDS Virus Spreads

An offshoot of the more common, easily spread BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome), Cheney Derangement Syndrome is a rapidly propogating virus characterized by delusional thoughts that a hunting accident is an event of lasting import that may, in fact, bring down a Vice President, rather than the sort of minor tragedy that afflicts all of us […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, February 16th, 2006

A Most Righteous Grilling

Hugh Hewitt absolutely skewered Lawrence O’Donnell in a live interview over his smear campaign against the VP - you can read the proceedings here…
Added bonus: Hugh gets Helen Thomas to hang up on him!…

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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

More Details On Cheney’s Fox Interview

From the NY Times:
Vice President Dick Cheney said this afternoon that “one of the worst days of my life” occurred on Saturday, when he accidentally shot and injured a friend of his while the two were hunting.
In his first public remarks on the accident, Mr. Cheney also took full responsibility for the shooting that left […]

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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Cheney To Speak To Fox News This Afternoon

Well, it’s a friendly audience, but an audience nonetheless:
Vice President Dick Cheney, publicly silent since accidentally shooting a Texas lawyer while hunting last week, will offer his first words on the incident Wednesday, the White House said.
Cheney will be interviewed by Fox News at 2 p.m. ET, White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters.
Hilariously, […]

17 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, NY Times/Media Watch, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Smearing Dick Cheney

Lawrence O’Donnell, taking a break from his usual crowing that he broke the Karl Rove connection to the disappointing Fitzmas saga, makes a remarkable smear on the reputation of Dick Cheney with not even an approximation of a shred of evidence:
The L.A. Times is edging closer to the most likely reason for the 18 hour […]

30 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

The Return of the Senior White House Officials

Who’s talking this time? McClellan? Rove? Somebody is - and they’re using the Washington Post to pressure Cheney to play the little ‘I’m sorry’ game:
Vice President Cheney’s slow and unapologetic public response to the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old Texas lawyer is turning the quail-hunting mishap into a political liability for the Bush administration and […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, NY Times/Media Watch, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Cheney Hunting Story Given Fresh Legs

Harry Whittington has suffered a heart attack and has birdshot lodged in his heart, ensuring this story won’t go away for at least another day or two. It should be said once again that, although even the White House sees the humor in the story, we all should join, left and right, in wishing […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Dick Cheney, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Monday, February 13th, 2006

Today’s What the…? Moment

From JPod:
It seems beyond question that the vice president is going to have to go before the cameras, explain what happened, and show genuine remorse for his actions, however inadvertent. It’s a difficult challenge for someone as reticent as Dick Cheney. But unless he does so, and makes a good showing of it, he will […]

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Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Does The Vice President Have The Authority To Declassify Information?

The question is asked in the comments by our good friend J.A., our good friend Gwedd says yes, and our good friend Jacques says no. The Wall Street Journal looked at this question yesterday:
Mr. Cheney, in his role as second-in-command of the country, has significant leeway, albeit not as much as the president, to […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Dick Cheney, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Cheney Shoots Hunting Partner; Senators Call For Investigation

Okay, I scrambled up the order of events in that headline for comic effect (and shame on me - it’s not funny that a man was shot, and let’s hope Harry Whittington has a full, complete recovery). It is true, however, that both a Republican and a Democratic senator have called for Fitzgerald to […]

9 Comments » - Posted in George Allen, PlameGate, Dick Cheney, Republican Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Look in the Mirror, Harry

By now, everyone has heard that Dick Cheney has moved into counterattack mode in a big way, saying: “The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone — but we’re not going to sit by and let them rewrite history.” I have nothing new to add, other than […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Republican Candidates, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, August 11th, 2005

Woodward: It’s Cheney In 2008

Bob Woodward is predicting that Dick Cheney will be the 2008 Republican presidential nominee:

If Bob Woodward is right, it will be The Old Man and the She in the 2008 showdown for the White House. Speaking in Colorado last night, the Washington Post journalist predicted that Vice President Dick Cheney and former First Lady Hillary […]

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