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Hot Air » Top Picks —
... an obligation to set priorities and go after that first. It also occurs to me that one of the tools that is most important to doing that is tax policy, and cutting taxes, especially for those who invest and create wealth and create jobs. That’s not what we’re seeing… I was concerned when the first stimulus program wasn’t put together in the administration but, rather, was something they sort of chucked up on Capitol Hill and let the Congress write that legislation which says, to me, there really isn’t a coherent approach at this point to try and improve the economy.
Dick can't help himself
Political Animal —
... Cheney would feel at least a little chastened right now. He helped lead a failed administration, which burdened the nation with overwhelming crises. He left office as something of a disgrace. He's suspected of committing war crimes. His record on everything from national security to economic policy to constitutional norms is an embarrassment. His ideas and twisted ideology have been thoroughly and completely discredited. And yet, the former Vice President just keeps talking. From his interview with CNN's John King yesterday: KING: There are people I assume watching this ...
Cheney: Don't Blame Us!
Political Punch —
... Cheney: Don't Blame Us! March 16, 2009 9:36 AM"There's no question that what the economic circumstances that (President Obama) inherited are difficult ones," former Vice President Dick Cheney told John King on CNN . "You know, we said that before we left. I don't think you can blame the Bush administration for the creation of those circumstances. It's a global financial problem. We had, in fact, tried to deal with the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problem some years before with major reforms and were blocked by Democrats on the Hill, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. "So I think the ...
An old, tired talking point
Political Animal —
... it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. With those attacks, the terrorists and supporters declared war on the United States of America -- and war is what they got." The point was hardly subtle -- Bush and Republicans battle terrorists with the most powerful military in the world; Democrats fight al Qaeda with cops, lawyers, and intelligence-agency bureaucrats. The argument has always been pretty ridiculous, but five years later, the talking point hasn't gone away. Here's Dick Cheney on CNN yesterday: "...I think part of the difficulty here as I look at what ...
The Rude Pundit — ... Somewhere in Hell yesterday, Augusto Pinochet watched John King's interview with Dick Cheney on CNN. Whenever the former Vice-President appears, Lucifer makes sure that all the underworld's screens are tuned in. He wouldn't wanna piss off Cheney. "Are you fuckin' kiddin' me?" Pinochet wondered out loud between his screams as the bones of all the people he disappeared were shoved down his dickhole into his urethra. The Chilean dictator turned to femur-wielding demons with Salvador Allende's face and said, "Seriously, to get that kind of hummer from a reporter, I'd've had to ...
Cheney: Don't blame Bush for economic meltdown
Top of the Ticket —
... inherited a mess -- managed nevertheless to blame the downturn on Democrats, saying Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut blocked reforms of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that might have stemmed the losses. In the CNN interview, Cheney said: ...
Cheney’s Iraq Fairy Tale Ignores Afghanistan
Wonk Room —
... say most of what needs to be said about Hague-bait Dick Cheney going on TV to engage in the same sort of fear-mongering that characterized his vice-presidency, but Cheney’s assertion that “we’ve accomplished nearly everything we set out to do” in Iraq deserves some attention. ...
Arianna Huffington: What If Jon Stewart, Instead of John King, Interviewed Dick Cheney
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Stewart kept popping into my head as I watched John King interview Dick Cheney on Sunday. Each time King let Cheney get away with spouting gross inaccuracies and revisionist history, I kept thinking how different things would have been had Stewart been asking the questions. Stewart without the comedy and without the outrage -- just armed with the facts and the willingness to ask tough questions. ...
Deference Watch
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Now take John King's interview with Dick Cheney on Sunday. King is a usually fair and very well-informed reporter. So informed that he was aware of the newspaper Human Events, and even bragged of his insider knowledge of it on the air, but apparently was unable to read the New York Times on the day of the interview. In the Times, we found out that the International Red Cross unequivocally called the treatment of terror suspects by Cheney and Bush torture. With that news breaking, King asked the following question: ...
Two Critiques Of Obama
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... On his detention and interrogation policies, Obama faces two right-wing critiques. They are equally wrong, I believe, and also contradict each other. The first is Cheney's: ...
A Tortured Rationale for Torture
Opinionator —
Dick Cheney’s Torture Works! tour continues to run into reporting suggesting otherwise. On Sunday, the Washington Post published an article entitled “ ...
