Congressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away.
Congressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has refused to stay out of the political spotlight since leaving office, giving high-profile interviews to CNN and Politico. Last night, The Hill reported that congressional Republicans are telling him “to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input”:
Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, “He became so unpopular while he was in the White House that it would probably be better for us politically if he wouldn’t be so public…But he has the right to speak out since he’s a private citizen.”
Another House Republican lawmaker who requested anonymity said he wasn’t surprised that Cheney has strongly criticized Obama early in his term, but argued that it’s not helping the GOP cause.
The legislator said Cheney, whose approval ratings were lower than President Bush’s during the last Congress, didn’t think through the political implications of going after Obama.
Cheney did “House Republicans no favors,” the lawmaker said, adding, “I could never understand him anyway.”
Cheney’s office refused to comment for the article. In an interview with 60 Minutes earlier this week, President Obama hit back at Cheney’s recent criticism, saying that Cheney’s philosophy “hasn’t made us safer.”
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Congressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away.
Me too!!! Go away and put in the dock for war crimes and treason.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:10 amSo add Congressional Republicans to the list of honest hardworking Americans who’d like to see this blackhearted criminal in the docks at Den Hague.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:10 amMight I suggest an undisclosed location that is six feet under? No, it’s so much better having Cheney talking and talking and talking.
Keep it up, Dick
PEACE
March 24th, 2009 at 10:12 amSorry GOP, but Dick Cheney has to look out for Dick Cheney. And Halliburton.
http://www.pufferfishblog.com/
March 24th, 2009 at 10:13 amCongressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away.
Looks as though they’ve finally caught up to the rest of the planet ………………..
March 24th, 2009 at 10:14 amCongressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away.
Why are these guys always eight years too late?
March 24th, 2009 at 10:14 amDick Cheney’s philosophy made the world safe ..for war profiteers..
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=HAL#symbol=HAL;range=5y
Notice how the stock rises as the iraq war drags on, then suddenly takes a nosedive when around october when it starts becoming apparent that gramps “100 years in iraq” mccain isnt going to win..
March 24th, 2009 at 10:17 amDid anyone catch Jonathan Turley on Rachel Maddow’s show last night? He is very upset with Obama not appointing a special prosecutor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Ne1sdFRgg
March 24th, 2009 at 10:18 amthe lawmaker said, adding, “I could never understand him (Cheney) anyway.”
– - In that regard, Cheney really is more like Darph Nader, naughty person*
* (For you Hardware Wars fans.)
March 24th, 2009 at 10:18 amnormalasf Says:
Did anyone catch Jonathan Turley on Rachel Maddow’s show last night? He is very upset with Obama not appointing a special prosecutor.
– - I think you’ll find that Jonathan Turley is pretty much very upset about something all the time.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:20 amChaney’s appearance at the inaugeration said it all. All he needed was a monocle and a white Persian cat, and the role of super-villian would be complete.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:23 amQuestion:
March 24th, 2009 at 10:23 amdid cheeeney invite himself?
or did CNN and politico seek his “council”?
I was hoping for a NYT front page picture with Eric Cantor in the middle of George W. Bush and Richard P. Cheney. They’re wearing cammo gear. Bush holds a dead goose by the neck. Dick Cheney extends a can of beer toward the photographer and Eric Cantor has been shot in the face.
Instead I get this. Repugs want a divorce from the Bush/Cheney cabal. It’s at least five years too late. Major abuse occurred, while red and blues sat on the sidelines.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:24 amI don’t think there is punishment that is severe enough to be able to say that justice was done when it comes to this particular war criminal.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:24 amAh — something we can agree on.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:25 amDon’t forget or forgive John Kings lame softball interview. I swear these media elites are paid off big time. It’s kind of sad when you would think Jon Stewart could do a better job.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:25 amWhat’s funny to me is that the more someone is unwanted, the more they seem to hang around. Let’s hope Cheney is the rotten pile of feces that keeps on giving and giving…
March 24th, 2009 at 10:25 amThe Dick will never go away for he stands first and foremost for the interests of The Dick. Right now that interest involves trying to defend the horrific failures of the failed Bush administration. The fact that he manages to counter all of the whitewash efforts of the Bush apologists (let me get this straight: 9/11 was not their fault because it happened only eight months into their term but Obama is already making the country less safe by deciding to close a prison housing people captured up to seven years ago who aren’t being released anyway) makes his odious presence almost tolerable. Almost.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:26 amWhat makes people think that just because we had an election, Dick Cheney is going to go away because we asked him to?
March 24th, 2009 at 10:28 amnormalasf – i saw that… again… and again and again…
sorry, but turley is starting to sound like a broken record, and a whiney one at that…
i agree with everything he says, but it’s like he has blinders on and can only see the one problem of ‘war crimes etc’…
i worry that he will hurt the cause if doesn’t allow the time needed to do the investigations and hearings correctly…
March 24th, 2009 at 10:29 amNOBODY CARES what Dick Cheney thinks or cares. Go back to Wyoming and DISAPPEAR.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:31 amSo RePUGs think that he is a private citizen now and in that regard can speak as private citizen.
Au contraire, in other words they are talking smack again.
When ever archduke Cheney wants to talk he can at the highest level, in fact I am sure he don’t have to take out ads in papers to get his Bullshit point across, he just calls CNN and they bring out cameras probably to his home.
More BS from the NO team.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:36 amas long as Dick has access to kitten blood and the souls of the innocent, he is not going anywhere.
Dr Saramanga of the long life institute in Haiti keeps dick not so much ‘alive’ as ‘properly undead’.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:37 amNO NO NO NO!
Keep him in the limelight!
It’s hilarious watching The Penguin, justify his beliefs.
He’s the gift for Progressives that keeps on giving.
Remember, he is the one who hid during 9/11.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:38 amAnd always remember, he is the one who couldn’t stand during President Obama’s Inauguration (implying racial overtones).
But he seems to be okay enough to be making the rounds now.
I have said it before and I will say it again. Dick Cheney and George Bush did a lot while they were in office and deserve full support. About 6 feet of nylon or good hemp should do it.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:43 amEvery time I hear or see Cheney I think of the old saying,”The good die young and the pricks live forever”. Sure wish it wasn’t true when it comes to this clown.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:48 amI only hope that he lives long enough to suffer for what he has done to our Country. I take that back. I also hope that when Satan does come to claim his prodigal son that his human shell is not buried in an undisclosed location. I plan on taking yearly trips to shit on his grave.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:54 amStay classy, DICK.
The Dickster is the first Post VP or President to have come out bad mouthing a new administration in many, many years.
That sounds about right, eh?
Cheney, the Dick that keeps on giving…
March 24th, 2009 at 11:07 amI never thought I’d agree with Congressional Republicans.
:(
March 24th, 2009 at 11:11 amThe GOP will probably put this guy in a big bottle of formaldehyde and trot him out for all the really vulgar points of view they cling to.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:14 amSorry Congressional Republicans, he’s yours. You guys own him.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:19 amThere’s good reason for Cheney to come out now and it’s to save himself. As we see what topics he chooses to focus on. Libby might spill his guts when Fitzgerald brings out the other charges against him and there’s no George W. to stop him for going to jail. The Justice Depr. will see the many crimes and murder order by Dick Cheney. As even England’s Dr. David King’s death was never solved when he spoke up about how the story Blair was telling about Iraq/Saddam had WMD’s. Other World Leaders were target for assasinations under Dick Cheney’s orders. Most Americans wouldn’t believe such a thing would ever happen in the US. History shows we have and do such things. Prescott Bush attempt to assassinate FDR, assassination squad killed JFK and then the Iran-Contra Affair as assassination squads were again set up. Cheney worked in the White House under Nixon/Reagan and worked for Daddy Bush. Cheney knows how to work the blueprint for murder. Cheney is speaking out because he’s afraid he’ll get caught and he could careless about the Republican Party. Cheney looks down on people like drug addict Grand Poobah Limbaugh, Joe the Plummer and even Newt. Cheney would most likely only use Sarah for a lap dance and then kick her out on her butt. Some of his departments aren’t working because of the heart condition and viagra last 2 seconds.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:44 amAmericans want Dick Cheney to go away, to prison for the rest of his life.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:26 pm.
Dear President Obama,
When the International Community seeks former members of the Bush Administration for WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, just where is the this notion of “RESTORING the Rule of LAW” when you refuse to prosecute? What moral authority will you have left?
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March 24th, 2009 at 1:05 pmHow can the GOP be embarrassed by him now? He’s the same guy he was for 8 years when they followed him willingly down the sewer.
But being even less popular than W? That’s impressive, in a really pathetic way.
March 24th, 2009 at 1:07 pmMax-1, I agree wholeheartedly. I support Obama, but it’s not enough to just say you’re sorry – if we don’t prosecute our own war criminals, we sacrifice any legitimacy in going after others. Let Dick talk his BS through the bars – or better yet, from the gallows
March 24th, 2009 at 1:12 pmMORE Dick, MORE DICK!!!
March 24th, 2009 at 1:16 pmCongressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away…
March 24th, 2009 at 1:19 pmWhile the rest of the World wants this WAR CRIMINAL prosecuted and executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity!
Congressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away…
His assassination squad has been out of work since he left office. Let them take care of it.
March 24th, 2009 at 1:24 pmMax you are absolutely right! With no prosecution of US’s WAR CRIMINALS (Bush, Chenney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Perle, Wolfowitz, Yoo, D. Feith, and all the rest of these scum), The US continues to have No Moral International credibility. It is laughable when they call Mugabe a ‘War Criminal’. By the way, Obama also has very low moral credibility for his total support of Israeli Massacre of Palestinians last December.
March 24th, 2009 at 1:25 pmThere are two possible solutions when it comes to D.C.
Are any of his friends a poor shot?
Can we just hand D.C. over to terrorists?
March 24th, 2009 at 10:15 pmThe house Republicans want Dick Chaney to go away!!!
“I have wanted Dick Chaney to go away for a least 8 years.”
March 24th, 2009 at 11:31 pmWhy any self respecting news agency would give air time to a forner VP who hid in the shadows for eight years without ever making a relevant public statement is beyond me. Cheney should crawl back into his bomb shelter to count the millions of blood money he has earned through Haliburton and zip his non-existent upper lip closed. He had nothing relevant to say for eight years, he has nothing relevant to say now. God night, Dick!
March 25th, 2009 at 12:07 am