Cheney talks and the GOP squirms

[Forkboy]

PLEASE, Dick Cheney, keep talking!

Now we know why he was so hunkered down as vice president, except to proclaim that we would be welcomed as liberators in Iraq. Had he been more candid sooner, even more Republicans would have staked their lawns with Obama signs, ashamed of the rock their party lives under.

Why Cheney is hitting the news-show circuit at all is amazing, given that his job approval rating was down to 30 percent by the time he left office, according a Washington Post/ABC News poll. Worse, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll last month found that only 18 percent of Americans had positive feelings for him. This compared with 56 percent in the months after 9/11.

But Cheney never cared what Americans thought about him back then, with his secretive, industry-stacked energy panels, his defense of waterboarding of suspected terrorists, and his saying that he would have invaded Iraq even if we knew Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. So there is no reason to expect sensitivity from him now, blubbering to an excess that serves only to further creep out Americans on the Republican brand.
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Cheney, who thinks the party of Lincoln should now become the party of Limbaugh, says he sees only a "semantic problem" with the Republicans. Americans saw right through this in November and continue to see through it. They see a seismic problem.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/05/16/cheney_talks_and_the_gop_squirms/

Good stuff from Jackson once again. :rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

1. He hastens the Demise of the GOP....

[Chemisse]

2. It's almost comical

. . . the way the Republicans keep making their plight worse by saying incredibly dumb things and by chasing moderates out of the party in an effort to 'purify'.

Oh wait, it's not almost comical, it is really hilarious!

[Strong Atheist]

3. Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[Chemisse]

5. Thanks! This has rapidly become one of my favorite sites.

[Aviation Pro]

4. I'd rather see: GOP talks and Cheney squirms....

...but that won't happen in a billion fucking years.