House GOP rises up against Cheney

[maddezmom]

There was a time when Dick Cheney could turn back a Republican revolt on Capitol Hill.
That time is gone.

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Some Republicans at Tuesday’s meeting suggested Cheney, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and economic policy adviser Keith Hennessey didn’t help their case.

“They were in worse shape when they left than when they came in,” said one lawmaker who was there. “These were the wrong guys…The problem is that they’ve used up a lot of good will.”

Cheney and the White House team made policy arguments for the proposal instead of political arguments that would help lawmakers explain a vote for the plan to voters in their districts. The meeting was almost an hour old when the vice president told the anxious Republicans, in response to a question, that failure to pass this would result in more foreclosures and cause grave hardship for their constituents.

Hennesey and Bolten – who shares a Goldman Sachs pedigree with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson –faced a number of tough questions about why the $700 billion bailout was necessary, how it would actually work and why this particular plan was the best response to the current crisis, according to notes circulated from the meeting.



more:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13789.html

[bdamomma]

1. kick

[hootinholler]

2. About time those bastards got a little of what's coming to them. n/t

[AlCzervik]

3. ywah but they loved him when their poll numbers were better!

[WarbirdForObama]

4. Let them Throw Cheney and Bolton

Under the Bus, and begin Impeachment hearings in earnest.

Then I'll believe it. Til then EVERY RETHUGLICAN BUSHBOT is a Fascist Asswipe.