Cheney: Financial Crisis ‘Developed’ Only ‘Over The Last Six Months’

[Ichingcarpenter]

On CBS’ Face The Nation this morning, host Bob Schieffer asked Vice President Cheney whether Americans were “better off now than we were years ago.” “I think we’ve done some very good things in the course of the last eight years,” replied Cheney.

After listing off policies that he claimed were accomplishments, such as No Child Left Behind, Cheney acknowledged that the Bush administration was leaving the incoming Obama administration “with their hands full.” But Cheney was unwilling to admit any real culpability for the challenges Obama will face, saying only that they are a “new set of problems.” Cheney even claimed that the turmoil in the financial sector “developed” only “over the last six months”:

CHENEY: That there’s no question about what the new administration, President Obama, are going to have their hands full with the new set of problems, if you will. Centered especially on the economy, upon the difficulties that have developed in the financial markets over the last six months.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/04/cheney-financial-six-months/


Even Cheney moved his shit offshore to protect his monies years ago.

[aquart]

1. He's coming out of the coffin a lot lately, isn't he?

[spanone]

2. i'm sure bob laughed in his face and challenged the veracity of that statement

:sarcasm:

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Bob probably moved his monies off shore too

when Cheney did knowing how close he is to the Bushies;

I can't believe that this is gonna be the new talking point, it just happened 6 months ago crap.

[spanone]

8. the media seems totally uninterested in challenging the bu$hists

[SoCalDem]

3. more like "only after the last THIRTY YEARS of deregulation"

Housing was the only think still holding the whole sham together, and Greenspan's hasty exit, told we it was about to all unravel..

Bush & the gang had hoped it would all hold together until Feb 09, but they miscalculated...

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. I really do think they thought they could hold the illusion together

until after the election, but the house of cards fell anyway.

[sandnsea]

4. All the money was made offshore

India and China. Of course he put his money there, as did Carlyles. Talk about pay to play. They create global laws to create new markets, and then put their money in those markets, and never tell anybody else that's what they should be doing too.

[Democrats_win]

7. Cheney needs to "man up" and stop acting like a little girl.

A real man would take responsibility for his failures. The entire world knows that bush/cheney are major f*ck-ups and that they have earned the hatred of the entire world.

[Vinca]

9. I thought the talking point was that the economic problems took

more than a decade to develop. Shrub's been indirectly blaming Clinton for the whole mess of late.

[Demeter]

10. The Financial Frauds Were Uncovered 18 Months Ago

The shit hit the fan in September. The frauds started under Reagan.

Cheney makes up his own facts, to which he is not entitled.

[DCKit]

11. Why doesn't anyone appreciate Cheney's brand of comedy?

Is it the number of lives lost or ruined? The sheer human and environmental cost? The assualt on reason?

History will be the judge. Hopefully sooner than later.

[surrealAmerican]

12. It just goes to show, ...

... being evil doesn't make you a genius.

[Phred42]

13. The LEFT will get NOWHERE until it gets it's hands on at least ONE Major TV network