WP: Where the Rumsfelds Retreat, The Cheneys Soon Could Follow

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Cheney has been spotted, picking out real estate on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I would think he should be looking at a place nearer Levenworth, but Dick wants to spend his last days as a free man shooting ducks with Rummy.

Where the Rumsfelds Retreat, The Cheneys Soon Could Follow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/04/AR2005090401391.html
By Dan Morse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 5, 2005; Page B01

ST. MICHAELS, Md. -- They've grown used to having a secretary of defense in their midst -- the way his weekend estate is tucked behind a bend in the road, how he takes casual walks tailed by dark SUVs. Now, residents of this Eastern Shore retreat are preparing for someone even bigger to buy a house down the road: the vice president.

"I'd heard it was going to close either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week," Carroll Hurley, a funeral home owner, said Saturday, seated with his breakfast gang at the Carpenter Street saloon and restaurant.



Is Vice President Cheney house hunting? (Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP)
Whether it's true -- that Dick and Lynne Cheney are buying an estate here -- could not be confirmed. Those closest to the deal -- Cheney's office, the purported sellers, the listing agent -- aren't talking. Hurley admits he's not certain: "All I have is hearsay. It wouldn't stand up in court."

Still, a nosy visit here leaves a person with one of two possibilities: Either the Cheneys are coming or a lot of people have bad information. Police Chief Ed Henry -- who breakfasted along with Hurley -- even referred to the lot in question as "Cheney's house."

The house, listed at $2.9 million, backs up in spectacular fashion to an inlet of the Chesapeake Bay. "Right out by Rumsfeld's," said Charles Mangold Sr., whose Benson & Mangold agency brokers high-end estates in the area. "It's under contract, but he hasn't settled yet."

Reaction to the two men's presence is embedded into everyday conversation -- even as residents take pride in taking it all in stride. They tick off celebrities who have lived in or visited the area: Margaret Thatcher, Walter Cronkite, James Michener, Yasser Arafat and Vince Vaughan -- the latest during nearby filming of "Wedding Crashers."

Residents joke about the occasional helicopter overhead and what flavor Rumsfeld gets at Justine's Ice Cream parlor. SNIP

[Demeter]

1. Let's Get Them Adjoining Cells

as a retirement gift. In the Hague.

[asjr]

2. The "estate" will be named Halliburton.

[Boredtodeath]

3. Leaving the VP house soon, Mr. Cheney?

Why would he be house hunting with 3+ years left in the administration?

Could it be that Mrs. VP plans to stay near DC?

[leveymg]

4. That's what I read into it, too.

This could be a portent of Cheney's plan to resign, voluntarily or otherwise?

[Boredtodeath]

5. Resign, but not give up power

The only reason would be to maintain a power base in DC. Why not just go back home to Wyoming or wherever they already have homes?

[UTUSN]

6. Secret Love, Like Tweety & G.E.RUSSERT n/t

[supernova]

7. Spooks' Corner

When I lived in DC in the mid-late 80s there was a place on the MD coast that was known as Spooks' Corner because so many CIA, NSA types had second/retirement homes down there.

I wonder if this place is anywhere near there?

[rocktivity]

8. And no doubt he'll be inviting Scalia along

PULL!

:headbang:
rocknation

[oneighty]

9. "backs up in spectacular fashion to an inlet"

Sounds like a really wonderful location for a tax generating property. A hotel perhaps?

Eminent Domain anyone?

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[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are homeless along....

....the Gulf Coast, and thousands are dead.

What's wrong with this picture?

[leesa]

11. No kidding. This could outdo Junior's golfing/cake eating/guitar playing

and Rice's thousand dollar shoe shopping spree/theatre going compassion exhibit.

He was busy closing a real estate deal!