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Cheney Mocks Biden, Defends Rumsfeld in 'FOX News Sunday' Interview - FOXNews.com Transition Tracker
Vice President Cheney mocked Vice President-elect Joe Biden's grasp of the Constitution, defended former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and said President Bush "doesn't have to check with anybody" before launching a nuclear attack. In a blunt, unapologetic interview on "FOX News Sunday," ...
Transcript: Vice President Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday' - FOX News Sunday | Chris Wallace
foxnews.com — Vice President Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday'" /> Transcript: Vice President Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday' Sunday,... December 21, 2008 "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: And hello again from FOX News in Washington. In exactly 30 days, President Bush and ... (more) Transcript: Vice President Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday' ...
Op-Ed Columnist: Popularity Isn’t Everything
Op-Ed Columnist: Popularity Isn’t Everything
nytimes.com — In admiration of straight talkers, let’s give credit to the nation’s most unpopular Republican, Dick Cheney, and... the nation’s most unpopular Democrat, Rod Blagojevich. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: Popularity Isn’t Everything
Cheney: I told Leahy to ‘f*ck’ himself because ‘I thought he merited it.’
Cheney: I told Leahy to ‘f*ck’ himself because ‘I thought he merited it.’
thinkprogress.org — This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Vice President Cheney about his now infamous... June 2004 exchange with Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT), when he told Leahy to “ f*ck yourself .” Cheney confirmed that he used the obscenity, ... (more) Cheney: I told Leahy to ‘f*ck’ himself because ‘I ...
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — "If he wants to diminish the office of the vice president, that's obviously his call. President-elect Obama will decide what he wants in a vice president and apparently, from the way they're talking about it, he does not expect him to have as consequential a role as I have had during my time." -- Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with Fox News, taking a shot at Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

Cheney Mocks Biden In Fox News Interview
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... In an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Vice President Dick Cheney mocked his successor Joe Biden. Asked about the future VP's comment that Cheney has been "the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history," the Republican responded: ...

Cheney Mocks Biden In Fox News Interview
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... In an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Vice President Dick Cheney mocked his successor Joe Biden. Asked about the future VP's comment that Cheney has been "the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history," the Republican responded: ...

Cheney On Leahy FU: He Deserved It!
Riehl World View — LMAO! Good stuff. Cheney also was unapologetic about using an expletive in 2004 to tell Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy what to do to himself. The incident occurred after Cheney heard that Leahy had suggested the vice president used his position in the White House to get contracts for his former firm, Halliburton.  "I thought he merited it at the time, and we've since, I think, patched over that wound and we're civil to one another now," Cheney said in the interview. Hard to argue with that. It's ...

Cheney - “Biden A Idiot”
Flopping Aces — Ok, not a real quote but it might as well have been. Here he is going after Biden today on Fox News Sunday: Vice President Cheney mocked Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s grasp of the Constitution, defended former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and said President Bush “doesn’t have to check with anybody” before launching a nuclear attack. In a blunt, unapologetic interview on “FOX News Sunday,” Cheney fired back at Biden for declaring in October that “Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice ...

Poor Dick’s Almanac
N/A — Dick goes on tour on FOX and Cheney replays his greatest hits: war power,  Pat Leahy,  Biden. Understatement? “We didn’t set out to achieve the highest level of polls that we could during this administration,” Cheney said.

Dark Powers Undiminished
Jules Crittenden — ... [image] Our Dark Lord Cheney stirs rage among the left. I’m gonna miss this guy. A Dick Cheney gallery after the news at FOX :   Vice President Cheney mocked Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s grasp of the Constitution, defended former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and said President Bush “doesn’t have to check with anybody” before launching a nuclear attack. In a blunt, unapologetic interview on “FOX News Sunday,” Cheney fired back at Biden for declaring in October that “Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American ...

"I Will Be The Guy Honchoing That Policy"
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — ... informs us that he will be heading up a task force on the middle class. "Honchoing," has apparently become a verb. Imagine if President Bush said something like that, etc. But so long as we are accepting this neologism, let it be noted that Dick Cheney has decided to honcho the education of Joe Biden : Vice President Cheney mocked Vice President-elect Joe Biden's grasp of the Constitution, defended former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and said President Bush "doesn't have to check with anybody" before launching a nuclear attack. In a blunt, unapologetic interview on ...

VP-Elect Biden Proves VP Cheney Correct … He Knows Nothing
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... Vice President Cheney had a little fun at his successor-to-be’s expense today, telling Fox News Sunday that he didn’t take Joe Biden’s criticism of his tenure too seriously because Joe Biden doesn’t know the Constitution from a hole in the ground. Bill Sammon reports that Cheney said: “Joe’s been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware, and can’t keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which ...

“I Will Be The Guy Honchoing That Policy”
RedState: Conservative News and Community — In his . . . er . . . inimitable way, Joe Biden informs us that he will be heading up a task force on the middle class. “Honchoing,” has apparently become a verb. Imagine if President Bush said something like that, etc. But so long as we are accepting this neologism, let it be noted that Dick Cheney has decided to honcho the education of Joe Biden: In a blunt, unapologetic interview on “FOX News Sunday,” Cheney fired back at Biden for declaring in October that “Vice President Cheney has been the most ...

Darth Cheney Not Sorry He Told Leahy To F*** Himself [Nice Deb]
Ace of Spades HQ — ... , Cheney had reportedly told Senator Leahy to "Go F*** himself" in 2004, after Leahy had publicly questioned his integrity, and then tried to act all pallsy wallsy with him in person. Cheney has no regrets: "I thought he merited it at the time". Cheney also had some choice things to say about Biden's claim that the Bush administration has "amassed too much executive authority": "If he wants to diminish the office of the vice president, that's obviously his call," Cheney shrugged. "President-elect Obama will decide what he wants in a vice president and apparently, from ...

Biden’s Bin Hidin’
neo-neocon — ... He seems to be stepping out a bit more lately, however. He was criticized by his predecessor Cheney, and Biden dissed Cheney right back. One of the controversies was about the role of the VP; Cheney, not surprisingly, sees it as a more powerful one than Biden does. ...

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