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Around the Web in 83 Seconds, 02.04.09
The Latest on Air America — ... ? Alternet looks into the disturbing practice. One-trick pony Dick Cheney warns of terrorist attacks . One wonders if he spends a lot of time angrily shaking his slipper at the paperboy in the morning. Chris Bowers at Open Left asks Obama: ...

Cheney Warns of New Attacks
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... The former VP tells Politico he thinks there's a "high probability" terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years.       ...

(Fmr.VP) Dick Cheney Warns Of A WMD Attack Under Obama’s Sloppy And Lazy Terror Watch - With Audio
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — WOW! I am REALLY going to miss this guy’s backbone and focus. His health issues aside, Cheney would have been a great POTUS. Politico: Cheney warns of new attacks By JOHN F. HARRIS & MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. ...

Dick
Political Animal — DICK.... Former Vice President Dick Cheney was a national disgrace and an embarrassment to himself while in office, but he's not quite done engaging in some of the cheapest, most offensive, least honest demagoguery imaginable. Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a "high probability" that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration's policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush ...

TPMDC Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... In an interview with the Politico, Dick Cheney gave a dire warning that terrorists will try to attack America again, and their success or failure depends on keeping his policies in place. Said Cheney: "When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry." ...

Today's GOP: Hoping for the Worst
Talking Points Memo — ... It occurred to me while reading Politico's interview with Dick Cheney, that the GOP's plan to regain political viability in the short term rests on two disaster scenarios: the failure of the financial rescue efforts (stimulus, TARP, and other bailouts) to stave off complete economic collapse and a new mass casualty terrorist attack -- both of which they are positioning themselves to blame Obama for. ...

Beware the Coming Liberal Meltdown: Cheney Warns of Nuclear, Biological Attacks
JammieWearingFool — Rather than do anything to help prevent such attacks, expect the reaction from the left to be a total meltdown over Dick Cheney having the audacity to make such a prediction . Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed . In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison ...

Bush v. Cheney
TPM Election Central — ... But if you read this morning's interview with Cheney in Politico it's striking for three things. The first is Cheney's almost gleeful tone about Daschle and Democratic misfortunes. Cheney was, after all, the president of the Senate so it might have behooved him to say something nice about Daschle even as he dissed him. (Yes, I know this is not the Cheney style but I'm not grading on a curve here.) Second, one of the best lines in the piece is where Mike Allen, my old partner covering the White House for Time, along with John Harris and Jim VandeHei ask Cheney about the economy. ...

Rooting for disaster
The Reaction — ... . With Cheney salivating over a potential terrorist attack (which will happen, according to Dick in a new and disturbing interview with Politico, because Obama is too busy upholding the Constitution) and with the joy Republicans have taken over the soon to be total collapse of our economy under the weight of their obstructionist stupidity, it does seem they are a party rooting for America to go under. They see it as a way back to power. They forget that there might not be a country left to rule if they succeed.

Go Back To Your Undisclosed Location
democracyarsenal.org — ... of Dick Cheney's absurd interview in Politico where the former Vice President pretty much preemptively blames Barack Obama for any future terrorist attack, citing the decision to close Guantanamo Bay and roll back the legal and national security abuses of the past 8 years as his rationale. All of Cheney's reckless bloviation has for the most part been discredited (the "61" ...

Worst Vice President Ever Pipes Up
Oliver Willis — ... You remember how those conservatives flipped out when former Presidents and Vice Presidents like Clinton, Gore, and especially Carter would offer up their opinions. The crying and howling about how it violated protocol? Barack Obama hasn’t been president for a full month yet. ...

Cheney’s Reprised Scare Tactic: Warns Of WMD Attack If Bush Policies Are Reversed
Think Progress — ... Former Vice President Cheney sat down with Politico yesterday for his first interview since handing the reigns of power to the Obama administration. During the interview, Cheney wasted no time trying to defend the Bush administration’s unpopular (and ...

Cheney warns of new attacks
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... members of Obama’s own team — understand. “When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said. Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18390.html

Cheney Sets Obama Up
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... He hunkers down to play the Dolchstoss card, preparing to blame the next terror attack on the Obama administration's disavowal of his torture program. It seems to me that regardless of the merits or demerits of his view, it's a remarkable violation of civil norms for a vice-president just out of power to assault his successors and all-but declare them indifferent to public safety. It's deeply divisive, deeply partisan and utterly self-serving. In other words: as cheap as one would expect. And part of what ails conservatism. Think of Cheney and Limbaugh as the two ...

NSN Daily Update 2/4/09
democracyarsenal.org — ... that had been stranded by the destroyed bridge. Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has reportedly decided to run for the presidency again in Iran’s June elections. The U.S. military knew of safety issues with Humvees since 1994, almost ten years before they were used in Iraq. Commentary of the Day Spencer Ackerman takes apart Dick Cheney’s interview in Politico. George Friedman writes about the challenges of getting ...

Obama: reality may not bite yet, but it seems to be nibbling
neo-neocon — ... I do not wish anything even remotely resembling 9/11 on either the nation or on President Obama. But when I saw yesterday’s photo, I could not help thinking that the confusion of his first couple of weeks is hardly an indication that he would face a similar crisis with complete clarity, making split-second decisions that would be any better than Bush’s. Perhaps they would even be quite a bit worse. [NOTE: Let’s hope Cheney is wrong about this prognostication.]

Dick Cheney's Return to Fear-Mongering
TalkLeft — Dick Cheney is back and Politico has him. Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects. Cheney ...

Quote of the Day
Shakesville — ... reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry. ... I think there's a high probability of such an attempt. Whether or not they can pull it off depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States."—Former Vice President Dick Cheney. All class, all the time.

Cheney: WMD Attack on Obama's Watch 'Highly Probable'
Little Green Footballs — ... Watching the signals of weakness being thrown off by the Obama administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney is worried. ...

Darth Cheney warns us: You are all going to die and soon!!!!
At-Largely — Can't this man just go away? Has he not done enough damage with his terra=politics? And let's not forget that he and his boss were in charge on 9/11 and it is they who have already FAILED to protect us: Rewriting history is he? This is obviously the new, less ashamed version of tricky Dick. Let me give you the short version of the facts, use them, spread them: In short Mr. Cheney, if there is another attack, it will be thanks to 8 years of your insatiable lust for power at all costs. It will be your legacy - and frankly, it already is anyway. Threatening the current President, ...

Please Go Away
Swampland — ... Let's leave aside the fact that if Dick Cheney and his alleged boss had been more vigilant--if they had listened to the Clinton appointees like Sandy Berger who warned about Al Qaeda, if they had paid attention to their own intelligence reports (notably the one on August 6, 2001)--the September 11 attacks might never have happened. Actually, I can't leave that aside...but in any case, it is sleazy in the extreme for Cheney to predict another terrorist attack. For several reasons: ...

Cheney's Warning
Power Line — ... Dick Cheney gave an interview to Politico in which he warned of the ongoing danger of terrorist attack and criticized the Obama administration for relaxing its guard: ...

Cheney Says Obama’s Policies Will Make U.S. Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack
The Moderate Voice — ... So whoever seriously thought that former Vice President Dick Cheney would go quietly into the night or give the new President more than just two weeks to prove himself? If you did then here’s proof that those who practice the kind of baby-boomer-era derived “smart good guys us versus dumb and weak and dangerous guys them” politics won’t give it a rest — not even for a single month: ...

Cheney Warns And Barkey Better Listen
Tammy Bruce — There's an important interview with Dick Cheney over at Politico. In it he warns that Obama is signaling such weakness that a WMD attack in the next few years by al-Qaida is likely. Please read the whole thing. Cheney warns of new attacks Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. In an interview Tuesday with ...

Cheney's Right
Weekly Standard Blog — ... The tables have now turned. The idea that Cheney wishes to be vindicated by a terrorist attack is absurd, but this is the paranoid idea now spreading across the left. Cheney says in the interview, “When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry." If Obama and the left are correct that the Bush administration accepted a false choice between principle and security, then they ...

Nature of War
Daily Pundit — Cheney warns of new attacks - John F. Harris and Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei - Politico.com The choice, he alleged, reflects a naive mindset among the new team in Washington: “The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I’m not at all sure that that’s what the Obama administration believes.” Actually, in certain quarters it needs to be feared to the point that our enemies void their bladders and bowels at even the thought of ...

Down The Path To Ambush - Cheney: Obama’s Policies Helping Terrorists Launch Succesful Nuclear Or Biological Attack On U.S.
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Politico: Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects. And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated ...

Cheney: Obama's policies make WMD attack during his watch likely
Hyscience — Judging by what he sees in Obamas policies so far, former VP Cheney is warning Americans: Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a "high probability" that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration's policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration's support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of ...

My, How The Wheel Turns
Newshoggers.com — ... It occurred to me while reading Politico's interview with Dick Cheney, that the GOP's plan to regain political viability in the short term rests on two disaster scenarios: the failure of the financial rescue efforts (stimulus, TARP, and other bailouts) to stave off complete economic collapse and a new mass casualty terrorist attack -- both of which they are positioning themselves to blame Obama for. ...

What he said
Sister Toldjah — ... In response to Dick Cheney’s sounding of alarm bells over the possibility of another terrorist attack thanks to the dismantling of Bush administration counterterrorism policies, and in response to the ...

Are We Witnessing An Obama Meltdown?
Nice Deb — ... I wish, but I have little hope that an electorate  misinformed enough to vote for Obama to begin with, will ever know enough to correct their mistake, unless something truly drastic happens, which is entirely possible if you listen to Dick Cheney: ...

A Real Wartime Consigliere
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] The Politico interviewed Vice President Cheney, who is not so keen on hope and change. A sample: When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry, Cheney said. Protecting the country s security is a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business, he said. These are evil people. And we re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek. I hope we don't find out how right he is. ...

Dawn over Manhattan
Belmont Club — Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned in an interview of a “high probability” that terrorist organizations will attempt a catastrophic attack, perhaps involving nuclear or biological weapons, on an American city. He also believed that the policy changes instituted by Barack Obama are making the enemy chances of success better. “I think they’re optimistic. All new administrations are optimistic. We were,” he said. Cheney said “the ultimate threat to the country” is “a 9/11-type event where the terrorists are armed with something much more dangerous than an airline ticket and ...

A Quote from Dick Cheney That Says It All
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — There's one quote from Dick Cheney's interview with Politico that says it all: We did worry about [the economy], to some extent. To some extent.

Cheney Shows How Much He Cared
David Corn — There's one quote from Dick Cheney's interview with Politico that says it all: We did worry about [the economy], to some extent. To some extent.

Cheney warns Obama: Stick with our policies or risk a WMD attack
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Mystifying. Never mind that it’s bad form to criticize so soon after leaving office; why would he want to re-burden the pro-Gitmo side with the weight of his ...

Cheney's attack warning: 'Then I worry'
The Swamp — ... "Then I worry,'' Cheney said this week, just two weeks out of office. These were Cheney's comments in an interview reported today by Politico.com, which interviewed the former vice president on Tuesday. ...

On Hardball: '100,000 People Dead' Because of 'Creepy' Cheney
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... On Wednesday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews led a not-so-balanced panel of lefties that included Mother Jones's David Corn and Salon's Joan Walsh, in hammering Dick Cheney's concerns, relayed in an interview with Politico, about the Obama administration's softer stance in the war on terror. The "Hardball," host led the attack on Cheney as he charged the former Vice President: ...

Klein: Cheney "Sleazy In The Extreme"
Hoffmania! — ... Let's leave aside the fact that if Dick Cheney and his alleged boss had been more vigilant--if they had listened to the Clinton appointees like Sandy Berger who warned about Al Qaeda, if they had paid attention to their own intelligence reports (notably the one on August 6, 2001)--the September 11 attacks might never have happened. Actually, I can't leave that aside...but in any case, it is sleazy in the extreme for Cheney to predict another terrorist attack. ...

Class Move No. __
Jules Crittenden — ... .  I thought Obama was supposed to be … cool. Ready to govern. A streetcorner, maybe, though punks don’t last long there. At least Cheney had the good manners to say “eff you” to Patrick Leahy’s face. Speaking of eff yous, Cheney tells Politico he thinks there’s is a “high probability” of a WMD terror attack thanks to Obama’s pandering policies in the police action formerly known as the GWOT. Nobody delivers an eff you quite like Cheney. Topics: ...

Cheney Claims ‘High Probability’ of WMD Attack
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... “When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said. Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.” Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated Entries February 4, 2009 ...

Dick
The Democratic Daily — Dick… Steve Benen explains. And Larisa chimes in. Tags: Benen, Dick Dick

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: How the stimulus will work
Doug Ross @ Journal — [image] Panetta's fees came from failed banks : Swamp Carnahan: a story of vote fraud, rape and murder : Gateway Kennedy: hog farmers more dangerous than Bin Laden : Times House Dems party at taxpayer expense : Hill Cheney warns of new attacks : Politico Class move: no : Crittenden Unions: the 7 lies : LRI Online The audacity of image : Surber Ethics, tax payments remain in news : Prairie Parisi: Democrats' call for civility 8 years late : Times Has Obama gone to war with Pelosi? : Hot Air ...

Is Cheney Right That Obama Will Make Us Let Safe?
Politics Daily — ... After all, he's got nothing to lose politically by coming out and saying what is on his mind. And in a one-on-one with Politico less than two weeks after leaving office, Cheney of course defends the Bush administration's surveillance program, the Patriot Act, the practices at Guantanamo Bay and the coercive interrogation techniques - some would call them "torture" - of high-level terror suspects. He even says that many member of Obama's own team don't even understand the ramifications of doing things like closing Gitmo. ...

Thought for the Day
BlondeSense — Thought for the Day Did you read that Cheney is warning of more terrorist attacks because of Obama's policies? I guess when you are the terrorist cell, you would know. Then I read a piece by Paul Craig Roberts who ...

Is Cheney Living for the Day When He Can Say, "Told You So"?
David Corn — ... Dick Cheney is not going quietly into his post-vice-presidential night. With an interview he did with Politico--in which Cheney practically said it's a certainty that Prsident Obama's actions and policies will lead to a catastrophic terrorist attack against the United States--the ex-veep signaled that he will be lobbing missiles at the new guys from his newest undisclosed location. Think of him as Mr. Wilson of Dennis the Menace fame, ever-yelling at the new kid to keep off his lawn. And it seems that Cheney is living for the day when--after ...

The Rude Pundit — ... (A merging of former Vice-President Dick Cheney's interview with reporters from Politico and actor Christian Bale's on-set ...

WAR: The Other Side
Baseball Crank — ... . Americans may have to do ugly, unpleasant and unpopular things at times to defend our nation, but efforts at moral equivalence have to first explain situations like this one. ( ...

Dick
Daily Kos — Cheney says the new Administration is putting America at risk. This from the man who went to war with the people of Iraq after we were attacked by Al Qaeda. This from the man who shot a "friend" in the face -- and then "graciously" accepted his friend's apology. This is a man who continues to earn his name, over, and over, and over. ...

CLINICAL RISK ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATING THE THREAT OF TERROR
Dr. Sanity — ... has an interesting post that juxtaposes two different views of the amount of risk the US faces from terrorism in the next few years. One of those views comes from former-VP Dick Cheney; and the other from ...

Olbermann Special Comment: "It May Be Time For Mr. Cheney To Leave The Country" (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... MSNBC's Keith Olbermann did a ten-minute Special Comment Thursday night based on former Vice President Dick Cheney's warning that a "catastrophic" terrorist attack is on its way. He calls Cheney's defense of torture and other extreme measures as necessary to keep Americans safe as a "perverse example of wishful nightmare thinking ... You, Mr. Cheney, you terrified more Americans than did any terrorist in the last seven years." Watch: ...

Olbermann Special Comment: "It May Be Time For Mr. Cheney To Leave The Country" (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... MSNBC's Keith Olbermann did a ten-minute Special Comment Thursday night based on former Vice President Dick Cheney's warning that a "catastrophic" terrorist attack is on its way. He calls Cheney's defense of torture and other extreme measures as necessary to keep Americans safe as a "perverse example of wishful nightmare thinking ... You, Mr. Cheney, you terrified more Americans than did any terrorist in the last seven years." Watch: ...

House GOP Leader Teams Up With Cheney to Threaten Terrorism
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with."*Emphasis ours Though Sessions was the one publicly heralding the Taliban's tactics, House Republicans may be taking cues from former Vice President Dick Cheney as well. Cheney has long demonstrated his affinity for fear tactics and he's not stopping now that he's out of office. In a recent interview with Politico , Cheney warned that if Obama stays the course of closing Guantánamo and ...

Cheney warns of new attacks
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — John F. Harris & Mike Allen & Jim Vandehei | US | February 5 Politico -

Olbermann: Time for ‘Dick’ Cheney to ‘Shove It’ & ‘Leave This Country’ for ‘Undermining’ Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... from Cheney’s interview remarking that "When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an al-Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry." Olbermann shot back: "More concern, Mr. Cheney? What delusion of grandeur makes you think you have the right to say anything like that?" Audio of Cheney’s comments can be found here. Olbermann’s suggestions that Cheney should be forced to "desist" from ...

Feel Safer Now?
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Dick Cheney was talking about Gitmo when he said he was afraid that the nation's new management would make the country less safe. But it doesn't end there; the State Department is relaxing the tougher visa procedures that were instituted in the wake of the "Visa Express" program in Saudi Arabia issuing visas to the 9/11 hijackers visas that should have been refused on simple immigration-control grounds, even apart from security concerns. As one of my analysts ...

Dwayne Horner: Axelrod Slams Dick Cheney
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — http://www.wnd.com/images/headshots/davidaxelrod.jpg http://toxicculture.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dick-cheney.jpg David Axelrod, Barack Obama 's version of Karl Rove , had harsh words for Dick Cheney over his recent interview with Politico: “The vice president seems to think it’s a zero-sum game. I think that’s one of the things that was on the ballot last November. It was decided. Apparently the vice president is having a hard time dealing with … the verdict of the American people. I will say this: President Bush could not have been more generous in the transition, in ...

John Seery: Cheney: Chief of Churls
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... But I'm more concerned about Cheney's (and others') sadism as government policy (not with his personal pathology as such) and with the lingering question about what we are to do about it now. Cheney insisted again last week that the U.S. must use dastardly and extra-constitutional (and un-Christian) techniques because, "These are evil people. And we're not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek." And he faulted the new administration for being naive about all of this: "The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that ...

John Seery: Cheney: Chief of Churls
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... But I'm more concerned about Cheney's (and others') sadism as government policy (not with his personal pathology as such) and with the lingering question about what we are to do about it now. Cheney insisted again last week that the U.S. must use dastardly and extra-constitutional (and un-Christian) techniques because, "These are evil people. And we're not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek." And he faulted the new administration for being naive about all of this: "The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that ...

And remember, Cheney wanted a pardon last week for Scooter Libby
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... a former chief scientist of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency The new figures come in a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, released on Thursday. This revealed that Iran’s production of low enriched uranium had previously been underestimated. Perhaps if Cheney and Scooter Libby had allowed Valerie Plame to do her job, we wouldn't be in this mess today. Just something to think about the next time Cheney decides to shoot his mouth off again.

MEAN, DIRTY & NASTY
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — Excerpts from Politico's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney. "When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said. Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other ...

Congressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away.
Think Progress — 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 ...

Heather Robinson: Bobby Jindal and the Soft Bigotry of Good Intentions
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... today on how Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal supposedly rebuked former Vice President Dick Cheney for asserting the U.S. is less safe due to some of President Obama's decisions. ...

The Torturers Among Us
Hit & Run — ... Torture, as the former vice-president's [recent] words suggest, is a critical issue in the present of our politics—and not only because of ongoing investigations by Senate committees, or because of calls for an independent inquiry by congressional leaders, or for a "truth commission" by a leading Senate Democrat, or because of demands for a criminal investigation by the ACLU and other human rights organizations, and now undertaken in Spain, the United Kingdom, and Poland. For many in the United States, torture still stands as a marker of political ...

Sheri and Allan Rivlin: Torturing the Straw Man
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Actually, the talking point has been part of Cheney's response to questions about Bush torture for quite some time. For example he said the same thing in an interview with Politico's John F. Harris, Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei back in February, ...

When Cheneys Attack: Liz Compares Daddy Dick to Al Gore
Firedoglake — ... Funny thing about that. Dick Cheney has been calling Obama a threat to national security since he took office. Here's how Al Gore responded after 9/11 to a Democratic audience: ...

CIA Director says Cheney sounds like he is ‘wishing that this country would be attacked again.’
Think Progress — ... .” And in an interview with Politico, Cheney “warned that there is a ‘high probability‘ that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.” ...

Fear factor
The Reaction — By Mustang Bobby. One of the excuses used by the GOP when explaining the teabaggers and the nasty rhetoric from the right wing is that a lot of Americans are scared about what's happening to the country and that people do extreme things when they're scared. That may easily be, but it's also pretty easy to say that when you have been the ones doing the scaring. Just a few examples: - Dick Cheney, the former vice president, is going on TV and saying the current president isn't keeping the country safe. - Sarah Palin, ...

Cheney's sudden reticence
Political Animal — CHENEY'S SUDDEN RETICENCE.... Within two weeks of President Obama's inauguration, Dick Cheney said the new chief executive would likely get us killed . "When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry," the former vice president said. David Corn today raises a point that bears repeating: given the Obama administration's successes on counter-terrorism, ...