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thinkprogress.org - 12/21/2008

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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abcnews.go.com - 12/16/2008

Exclusive: Cheney Says He's Changed

— abcnews.go.com — In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a reflective Vice President Dick Cheney praised President-elect Barack Obama's... national security team and admitted he's changed during his time in office. In his first exit interview and first television ... (more) Exclusive: Cheney Says He's Changed

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abcnews.go.com - 12/16/2008

Excerpts: Vice President Cheney Interview

— abcnews.go.com — Transcript: Cheney Defends Hard Line Tactics In Exclusive Interview With ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney Opens... Up About His Hard Line Tactics Dec. 16, 2008— The following is a transcript from ABC News' Jonathan Karl's exclusive interview with ... (more) Excerpts: Vice President Cheney Interview

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Cheney: Obama 'not likely to cede authority' (will “appreciate” the expansions of executive power)
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... he said. “Remember, these are unlawful combatants,” Cheney explained. “These are people who don't belong to any recognized military force. They don't obey the rules of warfare. They're unlawful combatants. And you if you're not going to have a place to locate them like Guantanamo, then you either have to bring them here to the continental United States and I don't know any member of Congress who's volunteering to have al Qaeda terrorists deposited in his district.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16594.html

Cheney: Obama Will "Appreciate" Our Expansion Of Power
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... In an interview with Rush Limbaugh (via Politico), Vice President Dick Cheney predicted that the next president will appreciate the way he and George Bush expanded executive power. ...

Cheney: Obama Will "Appreciate" Our Expansion Of Power
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... In an interview with Rush Limbaugh (via Politico), Vice President Dick Cheney predicted that the next president will appreciate the way he and George Bush expanded executive power. ...

Dick Cheney Takes Parting Shots
Politics Daily — ... Cheney expressed doubts that President-elect Barack Obama will close the camp or give up any of the broadened authority Cheney fought to bring to the executive branch. Cheney told Rush Limbaugh, "Once [the Obama administration] get[s] here and they're faced with the same problems we deal with every day, then they will appreciate some of the things we've put in place." ...

Again We Request You Remove All Liquids from Mouth Before Proceding
Hoffmania! — ... Cheney thinks Obama will like the changes he and Bush made to the executive branch. (PFFFFFFTTTTTT) Hey. We warned you. Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that President-elect Barack Obama will “appreciate” the expansions of executive power achieved during the Bush administration and is unlikely to cede authority back to Congress. “Once they get here and they’re faced with the same problems we deal with every day, then they will appreciate some of the things we've put in place,” Cheney said during an interview on Rush Limbaugh’s ...

Things Heard: e45v2
Stones Cry Out — ... about to strike the economy. Oil prices considered. The Democrats, standing tall against “standards”, makes y’all proud to be American I tell ya. Modern notions of courtship. Getting it wrong. A leap of faith. Nativity in DC canceled (for the foreseeable future I might add). Stability and a map. Mr Polamalu. Ya think. Duh. On freedom.

The final sadistic throes of Darth Cheney: ‘Guantanamo Has Been Well Run’
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... has been very, very valuable. And I think they’ll discover that trying to close it is a very hard proposition. Amanda Terkel notes: Guantanamo is not well-run, and its presence is putting U.S. servicemembers at risk rather than saving lives. As former Navy general counsel Alberto Mora has explained, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are “the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq.” Cheney also said this about the expansion of executive powers during Bush’s reign of ...

The Rise of American Czarism
Open Left - Front Page — ... Clearly, the Bush administration has been the single most autocratic in modern history, having consolidated power inside the White House far faster and more intensely than almost any president beforehand. Barack Obama, who was a constitutional law professor, will most likely be more interested in respecting democracy. But as Dick Cheney recently said, the Obama administration "is not likely to cede authority back to the Congress." ...

While He’s Washing, Watch Him
Firedoglake — ... I think the Obama administration is not likely to cede that authority back to the Congress. -- Dick Cheney, Dec. 15, 2008 What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them. -- Barack Obama, Jan. 20, 2009 ...