The Cheney speech is a gold mine!

[DancingBear]

"We're not going to let them re-write history"

Talking about "opportunistic politicians' with "selective memories' who are harming our troops.

Threatening to "continue to throw their own words back at them."

This is beautiful - it is now an absofrigginlutely gloves are off war.

Dems, the ball is right in front of you. If you pick it up and aim you can knock their fucking heads off.

Batter up...

[Nitrogenica]

1. This gif says a bit.

[journalist3072]

2. Cheney has no sense of decency. No sense of decency whatsoever.

If I could borrow a phrase from his wife: "This is not a good man."

[Nitrogenica]

3. A BOWTIE!

[napi21]

21. Yea, and the damn thing's crooked!

I flipped over to CNN and when I saw his blabbering, all I could think was, for God sake, somebody needs to teach you how to do that tie! On a screen shot, I bet it looks like he's had a few too many!

[DancingBear]

4. And if we play it right

EVERYONE will know.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Remember:

He was one of the guys that Poppy Bush wanted "kept in the basement where they cannot get in a lot of trouble".

Sorry, I don't remember where I read that.

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. Cheney has a sense of THIEVERY!

Him being a Top Thief in this mis Administration. He can go fvck himself!

[durrrty libby]

27. His tux fit him like an old potato sack

Seriously, the sight of that man makes my blood run cold

[Gabi Hayes]

5. problem is....this is just like the run up:

they're giving ninety percent of the airtime to the apologist revisionist liars now, just as they gave all the airtime to the warmongering liars

twas ever thus

[DancingBear]

8. Yes, but unlike the first time

other voices are getting out.

I stand with my belief that this is the worst thing this idiot White House could ever do - sending Darth out on the stump.

[H2O Man]

23. It's a desperate move.

Having Dick out front is a reaction to the bad news, including things like Matthews playing clips showing Cheney lying night after night. In conflict, one should never "react" .... one should "respond." This is a close second to having Bush land on the air craft carrier again, say tomorrow, to prance around with a "mission accomplished" banner.

[July]

36. He's the most unpopular member of the administration.

So his remarks will probably help us.

[ginnyinWI]

53. I think it helps every Dem that he mentioned in that speech

The mere fact that they are responding and naming names raises the importance of those named. It's gonna backfire on the GOP--but in fairness, it's all they've got to work with. They're losing the media slowly but surely, and the Dems are not going to back down.

[tavalon]

42. It is pretty bizarre

Where the hell is Rove? He's usually better than this. Don't get me wrong, I think Rove is in the running for most evil man on earth but he's also a genius. He would never have wanted Cheney out there as the front man. It's ludicrous.

[Cronus Protagonist]

56. I don't think Rove is a genius

Where's the evidence for that?

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13
Buttons for brainy people - educate your local freepers today!

[ChiciB1]

11. I Would Like To HOPE That They're Just Giving Him Enough Of

of a Forum so that EVERYONE will see just how despicable he is!

I reiterate that it IS just a HOPE!!

[H2O Man]

13. No problem.

About 70% of the public believes he was involved in the Plame scandal, and about 55% believe that Bush misled the public on WMDs as the reason to invade Iraq.

Now, look at Dick Cheney. Listen to him talk. Is there any single other human being on the planet earth that democrats should prefer speak now for the admministration?

[DancingBear]

15. None that I can think of n/t

[blonndee]

17. You are correct, I believe. His approval is in the 20s. The WH

is desperate, stupid, or desperately stupid for doing this.

I just can't believe all the HUGE mistakes they've been making, beyond POLICY mistakes, I mean. They were supposed to be such good "politicians" and now every move they make is not only a bad one, but a really, obviously, predictably bad one. I don't get it.

[H2O Man]

26. One almost can see

Karl Rove suggesting that this would be a good time for Cheney to attack the democrats.

[DancingBear]

28. They really have nothing else to do

I know some of here bore others with the Watergate parallels, but like Tricky and the boys the Bush boys are now firmly entrenched in the bunker, and up to their asses in shit. Predictably, they send out the Chief Shithead to make a "who you gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes" speech while covered in feces.

It truly is deja-vu all over again.

[July]

37. Especially when they're so incompetent at actually governing.

Smears are all they've got. After that, there's a whole lot of nothing as Plan B.

[spooky3]

48. It would never occur to them that the RIGHT response is

to listen to what the public is telling them and CHANGE their practices.

I guess they still think the media will help them "get their minds right" and they have been largely correct about this until very recently.

[DancingBear]

51. They can never change their practi$e$$$

if you get the drift.

Too many favors owed - too much quid pro quo. Too many power-hungry folks to answer to.

They've waited since '64 to put the plan in place, and they can not and will not deviate, lest they get a horse's head for breakfast.

[tulsakatz]

31. good point!

also recent polls have shown that people believe Cheney even less than they believe Bush!!

[electropop]

55. Karen Hughes.

The most abrasive and annoying human ever. My head exploded when Bushitler appointed this - fingernails on blackboard - fiberglass underwear - idiot to a "diplomacy" position.

[NanceGreggs]

7. "We're not going to let them re-write history"

Hmm, the way YOU tried to re-write history when Gloria Borgia reiterated a DIRECT QUOTE of yours from the week prior (re it being 'confirmed' that Al Qeada member had met with Hussein operative pre-9/11) and you said, "That never happened. I never said any such thing."

Problem being that The Daily Show (amongst others) later ran the two interviews back-to-back -- showing the world that you had INDEED said exactly what Borgia claimed you had said.

Just wonderin', Dickie Boy, just wonderin' .....

[DancingBear]

10. Yea, just about like that n/t

[mymomwasright]

9. HIDING BEHIND TROOPS

Let's start calling this what it is! They keep carrying on about how political discourse demoralizes troops. They aren't man enough to articulate any other way! It's like hiding behind the flag!:patriot:

[newyawker99]

34. Hi mymomwasright!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[tulsakatz]

12. last night on Olbermann.........

...Keith interviewed David Gregory and Howard Fineman about Bush's latest 'blame the Democrats' strategy. Gregory he said he couldn't imagine this could turn out well for Bush because that will lead back to the fact that no WMDs were found in Iraq which will, once again, be bad for Bush. It doesn't matter if someone else thought the same thing. It's still going to lead back to the incompetence of this administration.

[Felix Mala]

52. Don't bet on it... We need to nail this coffin shut right now...

They'll be trying to use these talking points for the next 50 years. We need a website, a speaker, a declaration or something that clearly sets the blame where it belongs.

For instance: who can this administration hold up, from within it's ranks, from congress, from the intelligence community who said, "Wait a minute..." Who was the voice for a more rigorous testing of the intelligence? I tell you who it was: NO ONE...
From the mob mentality the ran this administration in 2002 and 2003, that helped it make significant gains in 2002 election with all these lies, no one was going to get anywhere by challenging the Saddam-has-to-go Folks.
That's the final proof that Bush's "My Ass is on the line/Screw the Veterans" Day speech is just a poor magician's trick.

[0007]

14. We've got these clowns running, falling, tripping, foaming at the mouth,

lying, making faces, and shitting on their own party. I love it!!

[Disturbed]

22. Sabrina got 4 months and a Dishonarble Discharge.

(Sabrina)

[0007]

33. That's sucks...slivatating over a dead man?

[Jackpine Radical]

35. Slivitating?

I don't know what that means, but it sounds prurient smoehow.

[0007]

54. My bad! But then again, maybe the young girl was trying to get

a rise out of a stiff. LOL!

[dennisnyc]

24. and Cheney's approval rating? what? 19% Talk about credibility!

Zero Credibility!

[A Simple Game]

30. I was thinking the same thing.

What they couldn't find anyone the public hated more to give them credibility?

[Norquist Nemesis]

16. Every time Bush goes out of town, Cheney takes the reins

and fucks things up! :rofl:

[emulatorloo]

18. Classic Projection - Dick is very good at blaming others for what he is

guilty of.

[Metta]

19. Interesting how they're accusing Dems of doing what *they* did.

Projection, denial and acting out. They go hand in hand, every time.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

20. A bit of history.... Cheney's moves to cut the military.... throw this

in his face, see if he can grimmace just a wee bit more than he already does.

http://www.factcheck.org/article177.html
Missing Context

It is true that when Kerry first ran for the Senate in 1984 he did call specifically for canceling the AH-64 Apache helicopter, but once elected he opposed mainly such strategic weapons as Trident nuclear missiles and space-based anti-ballistic systems. And Richard Cheney himself, who is now Vice President but who then was Secretary of Defense, also proposed canceling the Apache helicopter program five years after Kerry did. As Cheney told the House Armed Services Committee on Aug. 13, 1989:

Cheney: The Army, as I indicated in my earlier testimony, recommended to me that we keep a robust Apache helicopter program going forward, AH-64; . . . I forced the Army to make choices. I said, "You can't have all three. We don't have the money for all three." So I recommended that we cancel the AH-64 program two years out. That would save $1.6 billion in procurement and $200 million in spares over the next five years.

Two years later Cheney's Pentagon budget also proposed elimination of further production of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle as well. It was among 81 Pentagon programs targeted for termination, including the F-14 and F-16 aircraft. "Cheney decided the military already has enough of these weapons," the Boston Globe reported at the time.

Does that make Cheney an opponent of "weapons vital to winning the war on terror?" Of course not. But by the Bush campaign's logic, Cheney himself would be vulnerable to just such a charge, and so would Bush's father, who was president at the time.

[Kahuna]

29. I think it's time for that impeach bush and cheney rally.

It's time for these suckers to go.

[understandinglife]

32. Rep Waxman's online debunker nails Cheney 51 times (and counting) ...

http://democrats.reform.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord/pdf_admin_iraq_on_the_record_rep.pdf

And, here is the searchable interface:

http://democrats.reform.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord


Peace.

[Swamp Rat]

40. Thanks! n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Also, The Whole Hateful Comments Thing

Cheney castigating the Dems for denigrating the president for political reasons. WELL LOOK WHO'S TALKING! Hey Dick, ever heard of a guy named Fitzgerald?
The Professor

[dkofos]

39. I don't think more lying and bullshit

will help either one of them in the big picture.

[Roland99]

41. They want to fight & play partisan politics instead of doing what's RIGHT

and that's protecting our TROOPS by bringing them home because we're in a no-win situation in Iraq and they know it.

They just don't want to admit they screwed the pooch out of fear of losing public support for Repukelican candidates.

Well, look at their poll numbers! What have they to fear now?! If they come clean, it might lead some back to the trough. I say, let them hang themselves!

[holboz]

43. Majority of Americans don't trust Cheney now

It's quite funny that this misAdministration thinks bringing him out will actually HELP their cause.

[populistdriven]

44. Video

http://politicalhumor.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/06/27.html%23a3668

[rateyes]

45. Yes, he teed the ball up for us....

all we need to do now is take a driver and hit it right down their throats.

[MADem]

46. The tux, the GIANT FLAGS, the DIRE tone in his voice....

Ya know, he looks like an asshole, he talks like an asshole, and gee, whiz, he IS an asshole!!!

His schtick ain't working anymore. Try as he might, he has lost his power to bully and frighten. He is a paper tiger, and a putz!!!!

Time for him to retire to his new mansion in MD, right up the road from his pal Rummy. I feel for the good people of MD, having him in their midst....

47. Cheney will try to act tougher and tougher

that is his act, whereas Bush's act is to whine and make put-down jokes. Cheney has a lot of dark forces watching that he doesn't wimp out. He is cornered. This guy has some bad karma.

[spooky3]

49. He's mistaking us for his peon Halliburton employees he can bully.

[Blue_Roses]

50. His speech was on when I turned the tube on this morning

and one of the first things I heard out of his mouth was, "The Democrats are liars," :rofl: ...okay, Dick, guess it takes one to think they know one.

What a hypocrit. He is so depserate.