Dems Raise Money to "Send Cheney Packing" Back to Wyoming

First published at WashingtonTimes.com

The Democratic National Committee is going after Dick Cheney with a new fundraising pitch — asking supporters to donate money for a one-way bus ticket to send the former vice president back to Wyoming.

The email from Jen O'Malley Dillon, who worked for the Obama campaign before taking the DNC executive director post, pulls no punches.

"Have you ever had a guest who overstayed his welcome and wondered, 'why is he still here?' After some of his recent interviews, former Vice President Cheney has shown that he clearly doesn't know when to pack it in," she wrote in the Saturday pitch.

Dillon blast Cheney for his recent television interviews, calling them "an effort to tear down President Obama's agenda."

"I don't know about you, but I think it's time for him to stop sniping from the sidelines and let President Obama usher in the changes Americans demanded after eight years of Cheney's disastrous policies," she wrote. "That's why I want Cheney to go back home to Wyoming, and why I want you to help me get him there."

Dillon says in the email a one-way ticket from D.C. to Jackson, WY costs $202 and asks supporters to "chip in" to send Cheney "packing."

"Normally, when a Vice President leaves office with a disastrous legacy and the support of less than one quarter of the public, I'd expect him to keep out of the spotlight," she wrote. "But with the Republican 'Party of No' out of ideas and without any new leaders to provide real solutions, failed leaders like Dick Cheney and Karl Rove have once again taken the helm of the GOP."

She blasted Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration, saying the Republican has been "bashing" the president.

"If there's one person who should understand the crucial need to get this country back on track, it should be the man who took it so disastrously off course — but he doesn't seem to get the message," she wrote. "That's why we need to help him off the national stage and back home to Wyoming. Please take a look at the itinerary we put together and then chip in to get him on a Greyhound bus out of town."

Dillon sends supporters here to make the donation.

The email includes a graphic showing Cheney riding a bus with his head out of the window.

 

 

— Christina Bellantoni, White House correspondent,
The Washington Times

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Comments

[pinedalewyoming]

We don't want him. He is an embarrassment to the great state of Wyoming. Send him back to Houston.

[doublels]

I completely agree with the author but there is a point she is missing. Cheney doesn't think he did anything ''disastro­us''...not one iota. He thinks he was totally right & justified.

[Bilboo]

Make in Leavenworth and I'll kick in.

[AmericanWarrior]

No way Baby. I like hearing him confess to war crimes. Should make the evidence gathering that much easier.

[ECB]

Let him stay - he hurts the GOP, more than he helps.

[Brovnikk88]

From Dick Cheney to President Barack Obama

Dear Mr. Obama:

I'm very disappointed that you haven't yet cleaned up the mess that George W. Bush and I created for you, starting in 2001. We successfully added well over $5 Trillion to the national debt that former President Bill Clinton had been paring down from the previous Reagan and Bush "41" administrations..

You have already been in office for almost 100 days as of this writing, and we still have the $11 Trillion national debt that we left you with.

It's time to "get the lead out", Mr. President.

Dick Cheney

[Producer1]

I'm against sending him packing. The more he stays in Washington the less credible both he and his party are. I'm surprised that he hasn't aroused more Democratic fund-raising which is the best use I could think of for him. Let him continue to help the Republicans languish.

[DoTheMath]

You have a point there. Remember how the Republicans avoided him like the plague and kept him out of the limelight during the election? I wonder what happened to that strategy?

[TexasDem0]

Get him drunk and put him on a plane to the Netherlands.

[jealousmonk]

How about a one-way ticket to Leavenworth?

[DoTheMath]

Now there's a worthy cause.