The lessons of Dick Cheney

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http://crooksandliars.com/

It didn't have to be this way. Not if Barack Obama had understood Krugman's Law and heeded the lessons of Dick Cheney.

Listened to Cheney, that is, not on national security, but on domestic politics.

Following the disputed 2000 election, the Bush-Cheney transition team prepared to assume the White House without either a popular vote mandate or dominant majorities in Congress. But while the mainstream media consensus concluded that a "weakened" President Bush would have to govern from the center and "build bridges to the opposition," Dick Cheney had a different idea. Especially when it came to the Republican ticket's radical plan of tax cuts for the economy, Cheney insisted:

"We don't negotiate with ourselves."

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1. Acting like Cheney would is not "change"

that's just being reverse Republicans.

We want to get back to civility.

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2. Civility is a pleasant concept

but it doesn't work in every neighborhood. as TR said, be nice, but carry a big stick.

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3. To be fair, the GOP also has the media to do its bidding. You never

heard of anything being too 'far right' during the last 8 years. They enabled a radical rightwing agenda to appear mainstream.

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4. And there were some Dems crossed over to help the Rethugs.

We had a three crossovers on the stimulus bill, and one became a Dem.

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5. Yeah, there are the Dem enablers too. nt