Entries Tagged as 'Dick Cheney'

Darth Cheney

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Hilarious, but Hillary’s behind the curve - I heard this one years ago.

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Something besides his head

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

The Leader undergoes a colonoscopy. Which means he will:
temporarily hand presidential powers over to Vice President Dick Cheney
So when can we expect the bombing runs over Tehran to begin?

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Tags: War in Iran · Dick Cheney

Omerta

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Both Sullivan and Josh Marshall (and many others, I suspect) are getting mail suggesting that Bush commuted Libby’s sentence specifically to send a message that the Leader and Vice Leader will protect the loyal - so just keep lying or stonewalling for the next 18 months, until this crew is out of office; even if that […]

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Tags: Scooter Libby · Dick Cheney · Wingers

We’ll always have Paris

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

(h/t AmericaBlog)

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Tags: Scooter Libby · Dick Cheney · Conservatism · Wingers

Libby equals Iraq

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Let’s be clear, also, on exactly what we’re talking about in the case of  Scooter Libby:
Libby’s lies were employed specifically for the purpose of protecting Dick Cheney. For it was Cheney who had decided that Joe Wilson must be smeared; Cheney who did not want the public scrutinizing the rationale for the war in Iraq […]

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Tags: Scooter Libby · Dick Cheney · Conservatism · Wingers · War in Iraq

The less we know, the safer we are

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Glenn Greenwald catches Jonah Goldberg inadvertently speaking the truth:
That, of course, is the defining mentality of the Authoritarian Mind, captured in its purest essence by Jonah. Our Leaders are Good and want to protect us. Therefore, we must accept — and even be grateful — when they prevent us from knowing what they are doing. The […]

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Tags: Dick Cheney · Conservatism · War on terror · civil liberties

Drumbeat gets louder

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Impeach Cheney, writes Bruce Fein in Slate.com.

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The high crimes of Dick Cheney

June 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Cheney’s acting like Julius Caesar and must be stopped, writes Steve Clemons:
If the Vice President thinks that there is no authority to which he reports, then he has committed a high crime against this nation and its democracy.

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Tags: Dick Cheney · national politics

A sign of weakness

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Seems to me the really interesting thing about Darth Cheney’s recent claim that his office isn’t part of the executive branch is the degree to which it confirms something we’ve suspected all along:
Cheney runs this show, not Bush.
All along I’ve gotten a laugh out of those who took seriously the notion that Bush was somehow […]

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Tags: Dick Cheney · War on terror