christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com - 2/17/2009
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Cheney by Justin Bilicki, used with express permission.
So much for that message discipline and failure to leak tour, Karl . Dickie Boy is peeved :
In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to ...
nydailynews.com - 2/17/2009
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nydailynews.com —
Exclusive Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't
grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon BY Thomas M. Defrank...
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Tuesday, February 17th 2009, 1:33 AM WASHINGTON - In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice ...
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Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't ...
politics.theatlantic.com - 2/12/2009
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politics.theatlantic.com —
The award for "Most destructive effect on public
discourse by a single person" for the 2000s, so...
far, goes to Dick "no doubt" Cheney. ("Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." Cheney, speech to ...
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Let's Stop This Before It Goes Any Further
thismodernworld.com - 2/20/2009
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thismodernworld.com —
At some point back in 2005 or so,
I was exchanging email with a few friends, kicking...
around this idea that I’d had to start up a parody right wing blog — not actually an outright obvious satire like Jesus’ General, but rather, ...
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Now it can be told
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Bush And Cheney No Longer Sitting In A Tree...
JustOneMinute —
... at Bush's non-pardon of Scooter Libby: Sources close to Cheney told the Daily News the former vice president repeatedly pressed Bush to pardon Libby, arguing his ex-chief of staff and longtime alter ego deserved a full exoneration - even though Bush had already kept Libby out of jail by commuting his 30-month prison sentence. "He tried to make it happen right up until the very end," one Cheney associate said. So why do Cheney and the press keep coming back to this? Set aside the fantasies of the fantasists that this signals the start of the Final Showdown between Bush and ...
From the Department of STFU Already
Firedoglake —
... was a success.
Since Cheney sat in on all the economic meetings of import, by his own account, perhaps he can explain his rose-colored wrongness during the interview? Or whether he still puts a lot of stock in the advice of "Lawrence Kudlow, John Makin, Wayne Angell, and Allen Sinai."
Wonder if John King will have the balls to ask Dick about the lack of a Scooter pardon?
Or King could just say the word Youngstown, ...
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The New York Daily News' DeFrank reports that Dick Cheney "launched a last-ditch campaign" to get Scooter Libby pardoned, and that when former President Bush didn't do so, Cheney was "furious." Fox News interviewed Bristol Palin, who talked ...