Cheney re-emerges as political force

[Nottingham]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2110252



WASHINGTON -- When the battle over an $87 billion plan to rebuild Iraq began turning against President Bush, the administration hauled out the big gun.
Vice President Dick Cheney, who is increasingly out of the secret, secure location that held him during much of the war with Iraq, was deployed to NBC's Meet the Press to make the case on Bush's behalf.

It was the latest example of a White House strategy for the targeted, judicious use of Cheney, who is now more visible, helping Bush move into campaign mode and selling both the president and his policies when Bush's own approval ratings are dropping.
"Among Republicans, Cheney is a rock star," said Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands. "He is just so solid and so seasoned, and just a reassuring leader. People love him."

It's not just Republicans who like Cheney. A CNN/Gallup poll last summer found 54 percent of Americans overall held a favorable view of the vice president.

snip...

"I think no leader is good without a lot of counselors, and I see Cheney as one of the president's counselors," said Cathie Adams, president of the conservative Texas Eagle Forum. "I don't have faith in (Secretary of State) Colin Powell at all, and I am happy to see Cheney balancing that out."



Ok describing Dick Cheney as a Rock Star ...gives RockNRoll a bad name! ...and get ready to :puke: Republicans are such Robots!

[BattyDem]

1. Let me get this straight

Cheney is loved? CHENEY?!? I can't decide if that's funny or scary. :shrug:

[Nottingham]

4. Baaawaaahaa! This is a Puff Piece for Cheney!

:puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece:

They are gonna have to Puff away for this guy to be thought as a Rock Star! :nuke:

[BattyDem]

19. maybe the subject line should be ...

Cheney re-emerges as a political farce! :bounce:

[FauxNewsBlues]

24. Are they being sarcastic?

54% liked him, last summer? Before the war went bad? That is why they say he is well loved? Smoking crack, or being tongue in cheek. Can't decide which one they are attempting.

[saigon68]

29. SICK BASTARDS

"I think no leader is good without a lot of counselors, and I see Cheney as one of the president's counselors," said Cathie Adams, president of the conservative Texas Eagle Forum. "I don't have faith in (Secretary of State) Colin Powell at all, and I am happy to see Cheney balancing that out."

Not that I like Colon Bowel-- but get a load of that from the article.

That comment is akin to whitening up Bush's appeal---disgusting.

[Fish Eye]

31. I thought the same thing.

"That comment is akin to whitening up Bush's appeal---disgusting."

[TahitiNut]

41. "force" or "farce"?

:eyes:

[bookman]

2. Sad to say...

..that's my congressman.

:(

He runs unopposed.

[Nottingham]

9. Oh THATS SICK!! OH FREAK ME OUT!

:puke:

[Flying_Pig]

3. "Among Republicans, Cheney is a rock star" WTF???

If there was ever a better reason to hate and totally despise Republcians, I can't think of it. The reptillian Cheney is perhaps one of the most evil and corrupt people to ever walk this earth, and this is who Republicans worship? Gawd help them, for they are all doomed to an eternity of wretched fire, ....or better yet, and rightly so,.... an eternity of Democratic administrations.

[liberalmuse]

16. Remember this...

we're talking about people who think Pat Boone is a 'rock star'.

[w13rd0]

5. What an ass kissing load of shit...

..."and it's not just Republicans that like him...54 percent..." WOW, he's SO INCREIBLY POPULAR. AND THE OTHER 46 percent know he is an apartheid supporting thug.

[mbperrin]

10. I mean, he's so crooked that he

literally cannot hold his head up straight!

[Norton]

14. Amazing..

Cheney's the "Wizard of Oz"... as in the bastard behind the curtain. That makes Saddam the "Wicked Witch of the West",
who's broom our soldiers got. I guess Bush is just one of those flying butt monkees.

[MoonAndSun]

6. this article is nothing but propoganda for "The Dick"

he may be trying to hang on to his job as VP and this article is part of the plan. He has been getting hammered lately by the Dems and is trying to counter that with this puff piece.

[otohara]

7. poll was last summer? time to check those #'s again

i think the band broke up since then

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. Cheney counseling *

Get KR&B into Iraq...I need my kickback moolah.

Even though my heart is bad, I am a strong political force...Uncle Karl sez so.

[Nottingham]

11. Ya Know whats Scary! Cheney thinks he is MORE POPULAR

than Bush!

What a EgoMANIAC! :bounce:

I wonder what Bush thinks bout Cheney is more popular!

:hurts: BUSH!

[TahitiNut]

42. Edgar Bergen was more popular than Charlie McCarthy?

Shari Lewis was more popular than Lambchop?

Figures.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. 54% had a favorable view of the Vice President (sic)

Of course, Vice Presidents generally stay out of sight. And Cheney, as we all know, has a predilection for secrecy.

So, the American people don't really know Cheney. When they get to know him, they we come to realize what a creep he is. He makes Spiro Agnew look like a paragon of virtue.

Those figures will drop.

[TruthIsAll]

34. Limp Dick: 54% last Oct.; 42% last month (under 40% today?)

http://pollingreport.com/

The Harris Poll. Aug. 12-17, 2003. N=1,011 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"How would you rate the job Vice President Dick Cheney is doing: excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?"

Excellent/PrettyGood OnlyFair/Poor NotSure/Refused

8/12-17/03 42 45 13
6/10-15/03 49 40 11
4/10-15/03 55 36 9
2/12-16/03 45 44 11
12/12-16/02 50 37 13
11/14-18/02 52 39 9
10/15-21/02 54 37 9
9/19-23/02 52 37 11
8/15-19/02 45 43 12
7/18-22/02 46 41 13
6/14-17/02 55 34 11
5/15-21/02 55 33 11
4/9-15/02 55 31 14
3/13-19/02 59 29 12
2/13-19/02 57 31 12
1/16-21/02 55 31 14
12/14-19/01 60 25 15
11/14-20/01 66 20 13
10/17-22/01 69 20 11
8/15-22/01 50 37 14

[xxqqqzme]

13. cheney is on my 'makes my skin crawl' chart (w/ a bullet)

just below kissenger.

[priller]

15. *** Head spinning ***

Wow, is this ass kisser disconnected from reality or what? Especially, ESPECIALLY, after Cheney's ludicrous performance on MTP last week, which was thoroughly exposed in the press (well, at least some of the press) as a stinking pile of egregious lies. Wow, this article is deserving of all kinds of nasty replies to the editor.

[kurtyboy]

17. I smell a "big time" suck job here

n/t

[PartyPooper]

18. Well, if there were ever 2 "Anti-Christs" Cheney is one of them

and, his beloved a$$hole-in-chief is the other!

http://mirrors.meepzorp.com/geocities.com/george-bush-antichrist/

:evilfrown:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

20. When the Halleburton connections begin to be made more often

and more loudly, this scumbag will be headed for the sewer.
I don't think America really wants a teeth-clenching, criminal, war monger profiting from the deaths of their sons and daughters.

[Nottingham]

21. Oh did ya see where Colin Powell stands! NO FAITH!

Are Republicans Pissed that he didn't deliver the UN!

:spank: Colin spanking Alert!

OUCH!

[Nottingham]

22. Oh Remeber the Clinton Quote! About the Contracts to Haliburton

the other day in California!

This article is

Lets have a Republican Group Hug
for Cheney

:grouphug:

[leesa]

39. He's black. They are racists. He will always be their whipping boy.

These are people who worship war criminals, thugs and murderers.

[FlemingsGhost]

23. I'm curious...

Does Julie Mason, (the "rock star" groupie who wrote this garbage,) swallow when the Bush administration "hauls out the big gun"?

[JewelDigger]

25. Attention! Attention!!! BS for sale!

Whaaaaaaaat???? No takers????

[teryang]

26. Cheney is a huge political liability

Everything he has touched has been a failure. His conflicts of interest are like a pile of elephant dung in the living room.

[TomNickell]

44. Only if the Dems will make an issue of it....

Which they may now be inclined to do.
Finally.

[lindashaw]

27. You have to balance that report with this...

WASHINGTON - Faced with rising costs, sinking polls, unsympathetic allies, an increasingly skeptical Congress and potential splits in his political party, President Bush has begun to question the hard-line Iraq policies long championed by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

snip...

The officials said Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, was concerned about new polls that suggest sinking support for the president's handling of Iraq. Rove also is worried about a potential schism between traditional Republican conservatives wary of spending huge sums in Iraq and neoconservatives who want to remake not only Iraq but also Iran, Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. Even some of Bush's strong support from military families appears to be ebbing, one official said, as overseas tours are extended and casualties mount.

"The election is still ours to lose," one senior official said. "What's new is that some people now see ways we could do that, even against this field of Democrats."


snip...

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/6821495.htm

[disgruntella]

28. This article should have run in "TIGER BEAT"

"With a better diet and more frequent workouts, Cheney has dropped a considerable amount of weight and appears in much better health than in 2001, when a pacemaker was installed in his chest. He has had four heart attacks, the earliest in 1978 and the most recent in 2001.

On the stump, Cheney maintains his unsmiling reserve and vocal monotone but often with a dash of self-deprecating humor."

I wonder what his favorite flavor of ice cream is?

I tried to read the whole thing but couldn't stop laughing.

[0007]

30. They had to do something!

With news of late about junior distancing himself from the dickie and the flap about how dickie lied to Timmy on "Meet the Press" last Sunday.

And coming from the Houston Chronicle is a bit of a surprise.

[DoYouEverWonder]

32. Seems Julie is trying to make her mark in the world

Has a major Bu$h ass kisser.

Here's another puff piece, she wrote a few months ago about Laura Bu$h. You'll need a barf bag for this one.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/6195166.htm

Laura Bush emerges as a powerful campaigner (yeah, right)

[Cooley Hurd]

33. 54% is pretty poor, even for last summer.

Given that Bush's numbers were in the upper 60's then, that would me that Cheney's have to be in the 30's now...

Julie Mason is the type of reporter Michael Corleone was speaking of in "The Godfather" when, in planning to smear the reputation of Captain McCluskey, he asked Tom Hagen, "We have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom?"

Every time I read an obvious puff piece such as this one, I always think of that scene...

[Flubadubya]

35. "People love him." WTF???

None of the people I know, and that's a fact. "Loving" Dick Cheney is like loving a pit bulldog who's got your ass in his maw! :grr: :puke:

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ON EDIT: Be sure to watch 60 minutes tonight. Cheney and Halliburton to be spotlighted... won't that be interesting?
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BTW, I like that word "maw"... it just fits Cheney's snarly countenance.

maw < maw > (plural maws)

noun

1. animal’s mouth: the mouth, jaws, throat, or stomach of an animal, especially a carnivorous animal that devours food greedily


2. greedy person’s mouth: the mouth, throat, or stomach of a greedy person ( informal )

3. gaping hole: anything that seems like a gaping hole that devours things or people

[Sideways]

46. Hey Look I Have A Turd In My Pants And The American People Love It

They can maw on that 'til their hearts content. Cheney is a gaping hole that survives on shit. He is the ultimate rat shit eating bastard.

Really folks I am not a violent person in fact I abhor it but seeing this rat fuck on TV makes me want to just kick his fucking balls in. Seriously hard.

[PATRICK]

36. misspelling?

"farce" not "force". A fierce farce for the foreseeable future of being stuck in the past.

[dusty64]

37. This is disgusting propaganda.

I've yet to meet ANYONE who likes crashcart, he's going down.

[underpants]

38. It mentions the MTP last week , what about the "no links " this week?

This is meant for the bridcage. Yeah Dick is a "rock star" what did you think the sheeple would be unsupportive of their leader???

[gulliver]

40. I thought Cheney's MTP appearance was a disaster.

I watched it carefully on tape. Cheney adjusted his tie, stammered, even coughed loudly just before mentioning the $87 B for the first time. He kept shooting those classic sideways glances at Russert. Cheney looked shifty and desperate, like a man cracking up.

Then in the next couple of days there was serious negative fallout from the appearance. Cheney had understated his financial "interest" in Halliburton and overstated Saddam's links to 9/11.

[underpants]

43. It was this is just cover spin

Down the memory hole goes the actual performance and in its stead is this type dribble. All the "no links to 9/11" spin likewise was cover for Dick's LYING and half truths.

[suegeo]

45. Old Lady Cheney was out stumping

Cheney's old lady was on a couple of the national, morning "news" programs, promoting some silly "patriotic" book that she wrote for small children (Ahh, small children: feel the warm, fuzzy yet?)

More likely, our Darth Vadar Veep had his old lady out working the streets for him, tyring to bolster up the good pr.

[Sideways]

47. She Wasn't Stumping Her Pathetic Trash Tripe Novels?

Her I wannabe Danieele Steele but I can't even rise to that level of rubbish?

So how did her new book go.....

"The bear was feeling quite cozy next to the kitten and he asked her to dress up in the flag. But the bear was very hungry and soon the kitten realized she was just PUSSY to the bear and the flag was just a prop. He WANTED her and as much as this dismayed her she couldn't resist his advances. The flag was too powerful for both of them."

"Now Pussy and Bear have gone night night."

edit: for a lost vowel.

[leesa]

48. These criminals must be strung out on crack ALL the time.