Cheney calls Boxer's questioning of Rice "fundamentally unfair"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

NOTE that Hume will not come right out and call Senator Boxer "Senator Boxer," preferring her lesser-known sobriquet "one or more members of the opposition."



:grr:

HUME: Dr. Rice, in her hearing yesterday, and to some extent again today, heard her integrity challenged by one or more members of the opposition, your reaction to that approach to her.

CHENEY: I thought it was fundamentally unfair. I thought, frankly, that criticism at this level wasn't justified. I think Condi has done a superb job as the national security adviser. I think she'll make a great secretary of state. She's a very able, competent, capable woman. I've worked closely with her now for the last, oh, four-plus years going back to the campaign when I was secretary of defense, I had a standing offer to Condi Rice that she could come to the Pentagon anytime she wanted ...

HUME: And any job but one?

CHENEY: Well, any job but one because she knew more about the Soviet Union and Soviet military affairs than anybody I knew and this was back during the days of the Cold War. She is an enormously competent individual, she'll do a superb job as secretary of state and I frankly thought some of the comments by Barbara Boxer, in particular, were over the top.

[lastknowngood]

1. F**k You Cheney!!!!

n/t

[murray hill farm]

20. They did not expect this to happen!!

But this door has just started to open...so...they just better get used to it..nothing..nothing left to keep us quite now. it really is going to be hardball now...and it has just started.

[robbedvoter]

2. Unfair...still whiney language....The whiney dictators. Geez!

A combination almost as bad as powerless and clueless on our side.

[bluestateguy]

3. The next time Cheney is on the Senate floor

Boxer should tell him to go fuck himself.

[3days]

4. I had a standing offer to Condi Rice

that she could come to the Pentagon anytime she wanted ...

hell....it can't get much worse can it....hahahahahahaha
Come on Hume let's go mudwrestle

[Skink]

5. You Know...

Rice has the power to administer a preemptive heart attack to Dick Cheney anytime she wants. And ken Starr wouldn't even care.

[DrGonzoLives]

6. Wah

Shut up, Dick, run back to your hidey-hole and play Risk with real soldiers.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

7. Go f*ck yourself, Cheney....oh, and better get used to "criticism."

We're just beginning.

He's such a putz.

I'm really proud of Boxer and Kerry for grilling Rice's ass and more importantly, voting their principles.

:kick:

[GRLMGC]

8. wahwahwahwahwah

The bitch is going to be confirmed. He needs to shut the fuck up.

[LittleClarkie]

9. Criticism at this level wasn't justified?

Criticism at this level is mandatory! The senators were doing their jobs. As Feingold said, the stakes are too high.

What, did Cheney want them to give her a kiss on her forehead and send her on her way? (mleck, I just grossed myself out.)

Go Cheney yourself, Cheney.

[vixengrl]

14. Seriously. You'd think, the more important the job

the more important it is for someone's ability to be taken into account. Apparently, everyone should have just said, good enough for Bush, good enough for us. "Hearing? HA! All we're hearing...is applause."

[Cha]

10. WHINE, WAWAWAWWAWAWAWA!

cheney..you big cheesyturd! Go Fuck yourself!

[MnFats]

11. wasn't it 'fundamentally unfair' to lie your ass off concerning...

....this goddamn war?
....lying fuck.
....your hands are bloody, your soul blackened.
....Look! Sen. Boxer's hands are clean!

[Goldeneye]

12. Cheney can go Cheney himself.

[zulchzulu]

13. Shit Dick! I thought you took a dirt nap already, you war profiteer

What is it up to now with your deferred payment from Halliburton since you and PNAC fellas got the war going? It must be up to $5 million by now. That's a nice chunk of change to get off the blood and backs of America's soldiers.

I have some rope and know a nice tall tree I'd like to show you, Dick. I make a mighty fine hanging knot. You should check it out.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. What's the problem Dickkie

you do not want any oposiothon but a rubber stamp party... huh.

Get used to it Fucker...

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. STFU, Cheney. Just STFU.

[jpgray]

17. That's actually pretty mild coming from Cheney

I'm surprised Boxer wasn't undermining our diplomatic efforts or endangering our soldiers by questioning Rice. That's the tack I'd expect Dick to take.

[Rose Siding]

18. We don't need no stinkin' Congress!

Article II, Section II
snip>
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

[Acryliccalico]

19. Let's just tell Cheney he will get back what he has given, doubled

at least here in DU. We will give him back what ever we can when ever we can. They called the rules on it and now they can't take the heat. SSOOOOOOOOOO SSOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYY!!!!
NOT!!!

[Old and In the Way]

21. "Superb job as National Security Advisor"?

I guess coming from a man who was trading with Saddam Hussein in 1999 against the US embargo, I shouldn't be surprised.

I'll bet the familes of the 3,000 who died on 9/11 might disagree with his assessment.

[BlueManDude]

22. Tell it to some 20 year old kid in a wheelchair

disabled for life because of your incompetent neo-con misadventure in Iraq you snivelling, cowardly, draft-dodging, evil motherfu**er.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Of course he does!

It's always "unfair" when we Dems question his shadow gov.! Poor Darth Cheney! I think his lies are over the top but who cares what I/we Dems think?

[July]

38. Unfair? How about Smear Vets? How about Lynn mocking Kerry's "tan"?

How about the countless low blows delivered by the Bush gang?

Unfair? Not telling the American people who attended energy task force meetings is "fundamentally unfair."

The Brooks Brothers mob in Florida in 2000 is fundamentally unfair.

Having assholes run the country is fundamentally unfair.

[Alizaryn]

24. Minor detail Mr Cheney...SHE'S A LIAR.

[truth2power]

25. STFU! You sour, vile, impotent peice of garbage.

Geez!! :puke: :puke:

[adigal]

26. Superb job - sold the Iraq war wonderfully!!!

Cheney: "There now are lots of Halliburton employees in Iraq making billions for my company - hee,hee, - why would I want to be Pres when I can pick up my pay checks from Halliburton on Jan. 20, 2009??? It's a good thing she is such a dumb-ass - ha! Brilliant??? No way. She is so blinded by her love of Bush that it was easy for Rummy, Wolfie and I to get her to go along.


Hee,hee,hee."

[opihimoimoi]

27. Judge her by the Results.....she did NOT make America SECURE....

Did not even TRY, even after all those warnings

Not a fucking peep Osama was coming.... nada, nai, zilch, puka, zero,

Some kinda Advisor she turned out to be.

[sakabatou]

28. Frankly I think Cheney should stick his head up his own ass

A take a good whiff of all the shit that has come out of him.

[PurityOfEssence]

29. How DARE you question your betters, you harridan!

Uppity female. We are morally superior to you and your bolshevik friends, and we have the god-given right to call you liars, traitors and anything we damn well please, but you must NEVER impugn our ethical perfection.

[Bake]

30. He had a standing offer that Condi could suck his .......

I'm so fucking sick of these whiney ass Pukes!!!!!

Fundamentally unfair? Hey Dick, I got a standing offer for ya! Come suck my DICK!!!!

Bake

[neverforget]

31. He's an evil SOB.

[proudbluestater]

32. Such an expert on the Soviet Union! She didn't even SEE the collapse

coming! Yeah, that's right, she's a good 'un.

In Bushworld, any "accountability moments" are "fundamentally unfair," dontcha know.

[fooj]

33. Dickey Poo...shame on you! Too late. She's already been exposed!

On MSM no less!! Oh, the delicious irony...

[Garbo 2004]

34. Too bad Dick, but the voters have spoken. Boxer has a REAL mandate. n/t

[JoMama49]

35. Over the top of what? Over your head? Over the top of all the lies

you all have told? Over the top of that pile of doodoo you've been shoveling for 4 years?

[Acryliccalico]

36. I am in shock! I didn't know he knew that WORD!!!

[iwantmycountryback]

37. Unfair? LMAO

So...people shouldn't be allowed to bring it up when a person contradicts themselves? That's funny, because that's what the whole B/C campaign was based on. Flip-flopping! Such hypocrites.

[Skidmore]

39. Your day is coming, Dicky boy.

You'll be praying that you have it so well when it's your turn.

[Roland99]

40. Damn liberals...being so unfair as to hold Condi to the fire

Biden NAILED her ass to the wall. Then he wimped out and voted for her.


You all don't do anything except parrot, "We've trained 120,000 forces." So I go home and people ask me the same thing they ask the senator from Illinois: "Why are we still there? 120,000 trained Iraqis. Why are we still there?"

So do me a favor -- as my mother would say, God love you, please do me a favor. Start to tell the whole deal.

And let's agree -- not agree. Let me cite a new definition of trained: If you're able to take the place of a U.S. force. Let's call it that.

And I'd like you to think about and in private tell us later after you're secretary, which I'm going to -- about to vote for you in about five minutes.

BIDEN: Tell us, how many of those folks you think, you think -- and for God's sake, don't listen to Rumsfeld. He doesn't know what in the hell he's talking about on this.

[wicket]

41. Cheney telling Pat Leahy to go fuck himself was MUCH more unfair

Whatever Cheney :eyes: