Right-wing Chicago radio host undergoes waterboarding to prove to everyone it’s not torture.
The average person, says the Marine sergeant on hand, can take it for 14 seconds.
Right-wing radio hosts lasts a grand total of six seconds, before rendering this verdict:
 ”It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke,” Mancow told listeners. […]

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Missed both Obama speech and Cheney’s speech, but in reading about Cheney’s over at GOPolitico, I get a sense that the America Dick Cheney celebrates and the one I celebrate simply are not the same place.
In Cheney’s world, the barbarians are perpetually at the gates. This war on terror will last as long as the war […]

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God just doesn’t love me this much.

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I think I said this last week:
Dick Cheney is 68, white and bitter. He is the Republican Party today.
The Republican Party has no serious wing other than the Cheney wing. The moderate wing of the Republican Party is distinguished by the fact that it does not exist, and yet it is still shrinking.
Arlen Specter, senator […]

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Darth Cheney pops up again on Hannity - where else? - to accuse the Obama administration of being weak and worthless, now drop and give me twenty.
(Incidentially, you know as well as I do that Cheney would have been president of Omega House. Why the wingers like people whom normal humans loathe in real life […]

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I’m here five minutes and already I’ve got an e-mail from a winger correspondent informing me that Obama is “on the ropes” because Dick Cheney is telling Sean Hannity that torture works, and presumably we should torture even more people.
Never saw that one coming.

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Dick Cheney, who really needs to go back to his undisclosed location and stay there:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will […]

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Dick Cheney, proving once again that just like the Bourbons, conservatives learn nothing and forget nothing:
In an exit interview with PBS’s Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour airing tonight, Vice President Cheney repeats claims that Saddam Hussein worked with al-Qaeda. Asked if he made any mistakes in his eight years as V.P., Cheney only mentions underestimating the […]

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Dick Cheney crawls out of his undisclosed location to endorse McCain, and Obama pounces:
I’d like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington’s […]

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Ron Suskind’s new book has ignited a whole bunch of controversy, particularly on its claim that a key letter - supposedly from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein linking the dictator to the 9/11 terrorists - was forged. Suskind’s sources claimed the CIA was behind the forgery, which has unleashed a flurry of […]

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So Lincoln Chaffee has a new book out. NPR’s got an excerpt, in which Chaffee talks about sitting down with Dick Cheney right after Bush wins the presidency “by a single vote in the Electoral College and a single vote in the Supreme Court.” Bush, of course, promised to be a uniter, not a divider.
Cheney […]

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And now, YA-TA-TA-TA…
In an interview with ABC News yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that President Bush “carries the biggest burden” of the Iraq war and even compared staying the course in Iraq to the pardoning of President Nixon. But Cheney also took time out to insult Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) […]

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…With apologies to Think Progress
 
La la la la, la la la la, Cheney’s World…
On his trip to Iraq today, Vice President Dick Cheney asserted there has been “phenomenal” improvements in security, hours before a suicide bomber killed at least 40 people. Cheney also asserted that Iraq has been a “successful endeavor.”

… la la la la, […]

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A failed vice president visits the Keystone State and says just about what we’d expect him to say:
“We’ve come to a strong finish. We are confident we will leave our jobs in good hands and history will show that George W. Bush has left us more prosperous and secure as President of these United States.”
Cheney […]

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If you wanted a snapshot of how out of touch the conservative movement has become, and why it is in the process of becoming so marginalized, you need look no further than this one.
The Conservative Political Action Conference is happening this week, a confab where the movement gets together, gives itself whiplash by nodding in agreement […]

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Dick Cheney manipulating intel on Iran? Ya don’t say…
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (IPS) - A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear programme, and thus make the document more supportive of U.S. […]

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Hey, maybe Dick Cheney can come hunting in Warwick!

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Cheney rattles saber, seems to explicitly endorse the manner in which the Soviets - not the wimpy softy Americans - used to deal with their adversaries. Greg Djerjian responds:
It’s really an appallingly strange time in our country. We have a singularly powerful Vice-President (compared to any of his predecessors)–openly quite enamored by the tactics employed […]

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You know what annoys me about this? Not just that Dick Cheney once again appears to be in the driver’s seat, telegraphing his intentions - but rather the fact that he’s trying to hide behind other countries.
“Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions,” Cheney […]

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Juan Cole:
What is clear is that Dick Cheney’s desperate bid to grab Iraq for US petroleum corporations and for proprietary contracts to supply the US is backfiring big time. Instead of reducing the importance of Saudi Arabia, Cheney and the Neocons have magnified it. Instead of bringing online a big new supplier (Iraq) they have […]

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