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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:00 AM

Bush makes nice, but Dick is still a killer

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:51 AM

Poor Fellah

He sounds fussy. Little children get fussy when they are used to getting their way, and suddenly a parent comes in puts a stop to it. There, there Dickie. In two years you'll get a multi-million dollar chairmanship of some oil company where no one will question you, and you'll have your way no matter how much you screw up. And meanwhile the adults will fix the messes you've made of our government.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:57 AM

Wrong word

Cheney is not a killer. Yes, he'll gladly send someone else's kids to kill for him, but he's a scared little man who speaks from behind a curtain, who is protected day and night by a huge security apparatus, who can't even shoot a bird unless it's been raised for the killing and released right in front of his gun. I'm betting when he was a child he thought there were boogey-men under his bed and that fear has informed his rise to power and his use of power. Because Dick Cheney knows, were he stripped of his power and his protections, he would quiver and quail and call for his mommy to come save him. You don't have to be a psychiatrist, folks.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:58 AM

So in Cheney's world...

It doesn't matter that over 30,000 Iraqis died in the past year, or that the country is on the verge of complete civil war with our soldiers trapped in the middle of this mess, or that Al Qaeda now has a firm foothold in Iraq. No, apparently the only thing that matters to Cheney is that Saddam Hussain is no longer in power. Hmmmm...

Would someone like to explain to our esteemed Vice President about the concept of the cure being worse than the disease? Or killing a fly with a sledge hammer?

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:58 AM

Banzai!

God save us!

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:58 AM

ManCrush

If I were a woman I would have Jim Webb's baby. That was awesome.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:00 PM

OOps

wrong article. Cheney is the devil.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:07 PM

Desperation?...with a ray of hope?

Old Dick must be feeling a lot of pressure that he feels that he has to venture out of his coccoon of Fox News interviewers!

He never gave the appearance of being a happy man but now he seems really steamed!That gives us hope: maybe one of these days will get so angry that his ticker will go into overdrive and he will have to retire early (although not soon enough!)

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:10 PM

Cheyney

Webb was pretty much spot on.....Cheyney time and time again fails to bring up the administration's reasons for invading Iraq. I would argue the US is worse off by tens of thouands of wonded and killed US personnel; a trillion dollars spent; and a huge opportunity cost for what could have been the alternative uses of those resources.

Cheyney was a huge part of the failure of public policy making that produced this result. Like the Fonz he can't admit he needs to take responsibility and say I am sorry. Maybe he can't admit to himself the enormous cost of his failures.

The Greeks could have written a tragedy about this administration...call it Hubris.

He is beginning to remind me of MacBeth.....trying to wash away the stain..and getting testy when it refuses to go away.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:11 PM

The Hard Man

Wow.

What a really tough guy.

Viet Nam would have been over much sooner if Dick hadn't had other priorities. Them Cong woulda run fer the hills!

Nice to see Wolfie finally get his head out of Sonny's pants.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:16 PM

Hillary should put this on her campaign literature

I don't agree with her philosophically and from a policy standpoint. - Vice President Dick Cheney

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:17 PM

Bottom Line Indeed

"Bottom line is that we've had enormous successes, and we will continue to have enormous successes."

Obviously the bottom line that Mr. Crabby Pants was referring to is Halliburton's bottom line.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:29 PM

Paying the Rent

To quote Dick Cheney:

Bottom line is that we've had enormous successes, and we will continue to have enormous successes.

I think that Darth Cheney is still working under the illusion that the unnamed aide who told Ron Suskind:

"That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality."

was right and that there is no reason to visit the reality that the rest of us live in.

Someone once said that neurotics build houses in the clouds, psychotics live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent. I guess we know where Dick Cheney falls. Unfortunately, it's been the lives of hundreds of thousands of other people's children that have been used to pay the rent to a shrink that just hasn't bothered to show up but just decides to try to cure the patient with non-binding resolutions.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:34 PM

One of greatest strategists in US history

If only he would not have chickened out of military service by lies and deceit when it was his time to serve! His lying and deceiving never stopped however.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:37 PM

They're playing a very old game

It's called "Good Cop, Bad Cop" -- with only one slight change -- now it's "Good Cop, VERY VERY VERY BAD Cop".

Kind of takes the shine off the making-nice facade Dubya tried to erect last night, doesn't it? Does this surprise ANYONE? It shouldn't. The only surprise might be how briefly Cheney allowed the afterglow to last. How many hours after the SOTU speech was it -- even 12?

Sad. Sweet words last night notwithstanding, Bush/Cheney have NO interest in real discussion, consultation or cooperation with any Congress.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:49 PM

Video

Anybody know where there is a video of this interview? I went to CNN's website, but only found a brief snippet of it.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:51 PM

Narcissistic Rage

GWB was working from a script, so could keep his anger subdued. The big worry is what happens when the narcissist is backed into a corner. The rage can become uncontrollable....

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:55 PM

And another thing . . .

I'm surprised Cheney didn't also yell out for Wolf to "stay offa my lawn, dammit." He really is just a belligerent old coot.

I also wonder, why risk the fallout from cutting funding for the Iraqi misadventure? Why not instead just cut off the paychecks for the entire executive branch? Let 'em live off their slush funds, trust funds and lobbyist cronies for a few months and see it that gets their attention.

I'm sure there's some goofy Constitutional prohibition against Congress doing something like that, but hey, the President never did like that pesky thing anyway.

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