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Cheney: No One Could Have Predicted The Financial Crisis, Just As No One Foresaw 9/11
Cheney: No One Could Have Predicted The Financial Crisis, Just As No One Foresaw 9/11
Yesterday in an interview with the Associated Press’s Deb Reichmann, Vice President Cheney repeatedly insisted that no one anticipated the looming U.S. financial crisis. “I don’t think anybody saw it coming,” he said. He then compared the financial crisis to 9/11, ...
Obama's Cheney Dilemma | Newsweek Politics
newsweek.com — Dick Cheney , who will step down as vice president on Jan. 20, has been widely portrayed... as a creature of the dark side, a monstrous figure who trampled on the Constitution to wage war against all foes, real and imagined. Barack Obama was elected ... (more) Obama's Cheney Dilemma | Newsweek Politics
Cheney says no one saw financial crisis coming      (AP)
Cheney says no one saw financial crisis coming (AP)
news.yahoo.com — AP - Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he sees no reason for President George W.... Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. "I don't have any reason to believe that anybody ... (more) Cheney says no one saw financial crisis coming (AP)
TV Green Bay-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin News: Cheney says no one saw financial crisis coming
wbay.com — Associated Press - January 8, 2009 6:03 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney says... that his boss, President George W. Bush, has no need to apologize to the American people for not doing more to head off the financial calamity, saying no ... (more) TV Green Bay-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin News: Cheney ...
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Illinois House votes 114-1 to impeach Blagojevich.
The Hollywood Liberal — ... Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D). The impeachment trial will be held by the state Senate. picture-1.png As MSNBC pointed out, “You don’t have to be guilty of committing a crime to be impeached. You just have to be accused of abusing your power or unable or unfit to serve.” Cheney: No One Could Have Predicted The Financial Crisis, Just As No One Foresaw 9/11 Yesterday in an interview with the Associated Press’s Deb Reichmann, Vice President Cheney repeatedly insisted that no one anticipated the looming U.S. financial crisis. “I don’t think anybody saw it coming,” he said. He ...

Cheney Defends the "Nobody Could've Predicted" President
Crooks and Liars — ... In an interview Thursday with the AP, Vice President Cheney neatly summarized the failed Bush presidency. Comparing the financial meltdown and implosion of the American economy with the 9/11 attacks, Cheney insisted, "I don’t think anybody saw it coming." As it turns out, from 9/11, sectarian conflict in Iraq and the election of Hamas to the Bush recession and the drowning of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, the leading lights of the Bush administration claimed they never saw it coming. Call it the "Nobody Could've Predicted Presidency." ...

who could have predicted
skippy the bush kangaroo — that they would be so arrogant? so idiotic? so evil?

Untouchable Dick
N/A — ... Cheney just being Dick again. The dudes who came to power braying uber competence are again victims of circumstance and ...

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