NYDNews: Bush says "Cheney was overly involved in intelligence issues"

[Rose Siding]

The vice president remains Bush's most trusted political confidant. Even so, the Daily News has learned Bush has told associates Cheney was overly involved in intelligence issues in the runup to the Iraq war that have been seized on by Bush critics.

Bush is so dismayed that "the only person escaping blame is the President himself," said a sympathetic official, who delicately termed such self-exoneration "illogical."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/358714p-305660c.html

[Skidmore]

1. Cheney is a viper.

* may be dealing with a bad case of snakebite soon.

[jsamuel]

2. so Bush is selling out everyone below him including Cheney...

wow...

this guy has mental problems

[calico1]

4. OMG, I wonder if he'll sell out Laura too? LOL. n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

37. Can y ou imagine how she feels? The whole world hates her husband.

Poor Laura.


NOT.

[whatever4]

14. That's what I thought too. nm

[A Simple Game]

39. Loyalty is a one way street for the * gang.

It's all for me and none for you.

[emulatorloo]

3. poor poor bush - my heart breaks for him as I play this tiny violin

:nopity:

ON EDIT: smiley malfunction

[spuddonna]

5. * is such an idiot...

He STILL thinks he hasn't done anything wrong! GAAAAHHHH!!! :banghead:

[ArbustoBuster]

28. I think he knows he lied and conspired

to take the US into Iraq. But I also agree that he's an idiot because he still thinks he's going to get away with it.

[spuddonna]

34. That's it in a nutshell...

I think he believes that everything he did was justified, so he honestly doesn't think he will get in trouble! :crazy:

*: "Them laws aren't for pretzelnets like me. I'm on a mission from Gawd!"

Hey, if I haven't said it yet - welcome! :hi:

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Food fight now in progress. Bwahahahahahahahaha.

Republicans going down.

Yessssssssssssssssssssss.

[TiredOfLies]

7. Looks like Bush

is already trying to shift the blame.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. He knows this is going to be a very bad week for his gang.

[FreedomAngel82]

32. Oh of course

:eyes:

[Richardo]

8. Talking about himself in the third person - how Nixonian

:eyes:

[converted_democrat]

10. Am I reading that right?? I can't believe me eyes........

Bush is now actively selling out Cheney?

[jaxx]

20. That's what I thought........Cheney will be so pissed.

And we know what he can do to those he's pissed at. Cheney can bury dubya.

[Rose Siding]

22. Bet it's nothing he hasn't heard already

Sounds like bush is on a constant tirade with officials and staff at all levels. O8)

[Enraged_Ape]

25. "Cheney can bury dubya"

Literally. If I were the Chimp in Chief, I wouldn't be accepting any pretzels handed to me.

[FreedomAngel82]

33. I hope Cheney sells him out!

That would be so good! It appears they really are in a "civil war" with each other. :popcorn:

[jazzjunkysue]

35. Get me a front row seat for that.! Never thought I'd root for Dick!

:toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast:

[JerseygirlCT]

47. He'll sell out anyone and anything

he has no morals, no honor. I can easily seeing him throwing anyone in front of the train to "save" himself.

There's no saving himself from history, however. He's doomed.

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. "the only person escaping blame is the President himself,"

Think again, asshole. You're not escaping blame....this shit rests at the feet of the President. Since you saw fit to steal 3 elections so you could play president, you OWN this scandal.:grr: What a fucking idiot.

on edit...as for Cheney being overly involved in intelligence....The idiot didn't question it when the man planted his ass at the CIA offices for months and months? Didn't it bother the idiot to learn that Cheney was the first and ONLY VP to ever do that? Didn't the idiot's pea brain wonder WTF Cheney was doing? The idiot was complicit for being such a dumb fuck...or was he? He knew what Cheney was doing at the CIA. He knew he was cooking the intelligence.

[peekaloo]

12. I wonder if the portraits in the Blight House have been getting a good

dressing down lately?

"Clinton, you had sex...with women.....in the White House. The praysident!" (paraphrasing a fave SNL sketch).

:rofl:

[Shakespeare]

13. And he said that because KKKarl told him to.

Karl sold out Libby; Bush throws Cheney under the bus.

The fugue structure of this scandal gets more fascinating every day.

[converted_democrat]

15. Okay, I have a question........

"the only person escaping blame is the President himself,"

How could really be escaping blame?? He picked these people. This stuff was done on his watch. How could he really escape blame?

[Rose Siding]

45. One adviser offers an even more whimsical criticism...

of the way he chose Miers:

"He must know that the way he did that, relying on his own judgment and instinct, was not good," another key adviser said.

:rofl:

[Norquist Nemesis]

16. What ever happened to "I'm a strong leader"?

This is the same guy who strutted around all macho and 'in-charge' as the leader of the free world! This is the same guy who oversaw an administration maligning top officials of other institutions (such as the UN) saying they needed to step down because of their inability to LEAD.

Hypocrite!

[Bob3]

17. illogical? How about Insane? I mean come one that's nuts.

If this story is accurate, * is acting like a drunk coming off a bender blaming everybody for driving him to drink. Which isn't much of a stretch come to think of it.

So when does he have the public meltdown? That's what we want to know.

:popcorn:

[A Simple Game]

42. So when does he have the public meltdown?

That's what we want to know.

And See!!!!

I want it aired 10 times an hour, every hour, for days on end. I promise not to get sick of seeing it.

[WI_DEM]

18. Bush, like Nixon, would throw everybody overboard just to save

his own skin.

[mmonk]

19. I love the sound of

rightwingers eating their own.:bounce:

[jazzjunkysue]

36. Crunch, crunch, burp.

[blm]

21. Poppy Bush ran the corrupt operations while Ronnie handled the pomp.

Bushboy is setting himself up to be Ronnie while Cheney handles all the policy work.

Bushboy DID do the dirty strategy stuff he loves WITH Rove. It's who he is - a political dirty tricks artist.

[goforit]

23. The sharks surround the big fish.

Cheney is going to fall ......HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!

[C_U_L8R]

24. Not so fast there Bush Baby

you have not escaped blame...
you just refuse to accept it.
Someday soon your bubble will burst,

[Village Idiot]

26. No shit?

Gee - how many times did he have to go to Langley to beat the shit out of those lily-livered CIA analysts in order to get the case for Iraq written up?

[LiberalEsto]

27. Overly?

Ahem.
I thought B*sh put Cheney in charge of national security.

[Zynx]

29. It's all my Dick's fault! n/t

30. is this mirage actually taking shape

into something real? Unbelievable.

Bush making decisions on his own, (Hey I didn't sign on to be President, oh wait a minute, yes I did).

[FreedomAngel82]

31. Cheney's visit to the CIA

And Bolton being there.

[jazzjunkysue]

38. Karl overly involved in political manuvering.

Libby overly involved with Judy Miller.
Press overly involved in truth.
CIA overly involved in reality.

[Javaman]

40. Well, no duh...

Bush is so dismayed that "the only person escaping blame is the President himself"

Hmmm, is he feeling left out?

:shrug:

[Pithy Cherub]

41. This is the pResident's loyal slackers, hackers and flackers

setting up the Cheney meme. * is trying to lie low while curled in a fetal position hoping this political hurricane blows over. The fact that the flackers are trying to portray * as the victim is the media spin to come. :eyes:

But alas, Fitz has yet to weigh in...:popcorn:

on edit: wrong version of to

[stevietheman]

43. What Bush is really thinking/feeling

"Presidential advisers and friends say Bush is a mass of contradictions: cheerful and serene, peevish and melancholy, occasionally lapsing into what he once derided as the 'blame game.'"

Read: Sometimes Bush's meds kick in, sometimes they lapse.

"They describe him as beset but unbowed, convinced that history will vindicate the major decisions of his presidency even if they damage him and his party in the 2006 and 2008 elections."

Read: Bush thinks attacking Iraq was "some bold shit" and his stirring up that hornets' nest will somehow magically settle down and the Middle East will live happily ever after under a glow of "democracy."

[milkyway]

44. This is turning into Lord of the Fucking Flies.

[dave29]

46. Bush shouldn't think he has escaped blame

we don't know who's getting indicted yet :)