Addicted to Love
It turns out that Dick Cheney doesn't really care how you pronounce his name, Chain-ee or Chee-nee, either one is okay. I'd been wondering about this lately, because Chris Matthews has taken to pronouncing Cheney's name "Chee-nee" in a very deliberate, sort of bossy way, as if he knew something we didn't. But apparently it doesn't matter how you say it.
As long as you go on saying it.
Dick Cheney won't go away. It's hard to adjust to life out of the spotlight, and apparently he can't. "If I don't speak out, then where do we find ourselves?" he says. This guy is not going to lick his wounds and slink off to his kennel, no way. It's just like the old days: George Bush was busy relaxing, so somebody had to do the job.
Cheney is speaking up to remind us:
- what things were like after 9/11
- that waterboarding works
- that the Republican Party is not really in trouble
He's here, he says, lest we forget.
To which I say, amen.
In some fabulous way, Cheney's ubiquity is an ongoing reminder of the eight years he was the key man in the administration; given the short attention span of most Americans, we must salute him for sticking around. He's a living memorial to the Bush years. He gives new meaning to the words "Never Again."
Sunday on Face the Nation, he did his thing: he feinted, he evaded, he alluded, he lied. He insisted there was proof that waterboarding worked in those famous files he can't quite produce. He said he would be glad to say this to Congress, although not necessarily under oath. He was asked if George Bush knew what Cheney knew about the decision to authorize torture, and he answered, "Um, I certainly, um, yeah, I have every reason to believe he knew, uh, he knew a great deal about the program. He basically authorized it. This was a presidential-level decision and the decision went to the President and he signed off on it."
Would he choose Rush Limbaugh or Colin Powell be the face of the Republican Party? Rush Limbaugh, he said. After all, Powell had endorsed Obama.
Classic Cheney. He is becoming practically Nixonian in his inability to be anything but his own charming self.
At the top of the show Sunday, Cheney made clear that he was on the show because he'd been asked, and added, "It's nice to know you're still loved." He was no doubt making what passes in his circle for a joke; but as we know, there are no jokes. Cheney wants to be loved. That's okay with me. You gotta love the guy.
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I hope all his attention by the news keeps Dick Cheney happy and inclined to keep on talking. I even pray that his pacemaker is strong and keeps him alive long enough to completely ruin the Republican Party and go through a very thorough trial. Stay strong Dick Keep Talking!
"Never again." Lol. For someone so secretive he sure is making the rounds on the cable shows. Let's make him swear under oath every time!
We need a cable company to set up The Cheney Channel....All Cheney All the Time.
Maybe then we can actually find out what really happened as he gaffes his way thru
24 cable.
As my father, an Episcopal priest, used to say, we have to love them, but we don't have to like them.
Remember when Mad Dog Cheney was Pappy Bush's lap dog as Secretary of Defense? He sided with Pappy against our moving on to Baghdad after the victory in Kuwait. Do the job and OUT was the strategy. But that must've left Mad Dog itching to go back and do it HIS way, so he worked on Baby Bush -- and encouraged torture as a means of "proving" an Iraqui-al Quaida link. Baby Bush went along with Mad Dog who now wants us to swallow the post-9/11 lies he cooked up fed to Baby Bush. Baby must realize he'd been duped, hence his silecne these days while Mad Dog continues to rant in close harmony with that other ranter, Rush.
Seems to me Cheney cooked his own goose. If he wanted to prove to the world that torture worked he should not have burned the tapes. The the entire world could view his evidence and he wouldn't have to explain to us what it looked like to see a man almost drowning 183 times and we could listen to him confess to shooting JFK or RFK or MLK , all the K's in the alphabet or "any damn body, just stop pouring water down my nose and throat, I did it, my mother did it, my daddy did it, my kids did it...anything you want me to say, just stop drowning me, please, nice white American, please.
Lest anyone forget: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3776750618788792499&ei=qFoQStvIEpaEqQODhMSCBQ&q=The+New+American+Century+&hl=en Their legacy is sickening.
More 6'th grade Michael Moore logic. If the left puts out a certain perspective on a story, then gets their friends in a room together to agree with them. They later site their own noise as evidence. If you despise Cheney, that's your right. But I don't look to a project emanating from Katrina Vanden Heuvel as an honest purveyor of information about the man. http://theclosetconservative.com
I believe that "loving" D i c k Ch e ney requires the kind of love that is called "willed love". Since willing requires considerable effort, I think I'll pass on this one.
Some of the most delusional reasoning I've ever read. First off, we conservatives do not concede to the idea of the English language being prostituted for a partisan wich hunt. If you want to know what torture is, research the Nazis, Bolsheviks, or the Iraqis under Saddam. Contrast that with pouring water down a suspect's nose or placing a caterpiller in his cell and telling him it's a stinging insect. Learn those things and see if you can call what the previous administration did "torture" with a staright face. We have the former VP to thank for the fact that President Obama has changed course and decided to fight the ACLU on the release of detention photos. http://theclosetconservative.com
You guys define the term DELUSIONAL with every word out of your mouths. We are not buying it! Ever!!!
Love him like a pustule on my bottom.
Good article Nora but I can't love Cheney either !
I think what we should all remember come the next election is #1 Remember how Bush won the elections and damn well fix the voting system so it can't be done again .#2 Remember that the Republican party was complicate to everytyhing the Bush/Cheney administration did and they still defend what they did and use Fox Faux News and Rush Limbaugh to promote their agenda . #3 Never allow another Republican become president again ! Keep your eye on the ball or history will surely repeat itself only 10 times worse next time around !
We need billboards for 6 months of the '10 election cycle to remind people of what the Bush admin did!
Kept our shores safe from attack since 9/11. Cut taxes and brought about an economic expansion after inheriting a recession. Unfortunately Bush never vetoed a spending bill and the Democrats economic stink bomb of forcing banks to make loans they knew wouldn't be paid back finally blew up in time for the 2008 election. http://theclosetconservative.com
No I don't have to love him and I won't.
Although I find it disturbingly amusing that we hardly saw or heard from the guy the last 8 yrs and now he all of a sudden, he's every where all the time.
Don't go away mad, Dick, just go away! You made your money and had your way with us, so shut up already.
Cheney did for America just what the Inquisition did for Christianity.
I call him war criminal.
The thing is, all kidding aside, that thousands of humans are dead. mutilated, and suffering because of this man and President Bush, all for no real reason.
It's unforgivable.
because of them, people like you were kept safe and you dont appreciate it yes thousands of people are dead they were killed on 911 or did you forget about them too???ANTI AMERICAN
What did Iraq have to do with 9/11? Nothing, thats what. So you're Anti-American if you don't want to see young boys die for oil and politics?
Sorry but Dubya & Dick made us less safe, not more. You're missing Rush's show so run along now,
Saying the mantra (without any proof whatsoever) doesn't make it so, but it's indicative of the fascist mind set: I am right, you are wrong and I'll put my boot in your face just to prove it.
These people are the non-Americans, oblivious to our shared history and ideals, blind to decency, and insensitive to the dead victims they create, all for nothing, nothing, nothing.
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