This week we were reminded of everything we stand to lose if Trump finds a way to steal the presidency again. Yeah, I know he “won†the Electoral College vote and with it the presidency. But as the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence committee acknowledged in its report this week, that “win†was engineered with a lot…
Trump falsely claimed on Saturday that Democrats eliminated God from the Pledge of Allegiance at their convention, but the video proves him wrong.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has landed several big jokes in the opening minutes of the final night of the Democratic convention.
Sean Hannity tried to attack AOC for her speech seconding the nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders, but he only embarrassed himself.
MSNBC’s Democratic convention coverage anchored by Rachel Maddow beat Fox News all night and especially during Michelle Obama’s speech.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama closed out night one of the Democratic convention that destroyed Trump with total honesty.
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich wrecked Trump’s attacks on Joe Biden as being taken by the “radical left” at the Democratic convention.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) took apart Trump by pointing out at the Democratic convention that it was Obama and Biden who really saved manufacturing jobs.
The current Democratic Convention schedule, which is subject to change after the VP pick, has an Obama or a Bien closing each night.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s convention will be the opposite of Trump’s as he will feature regular Americans, including a former Trump voter.
During her acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton warned that anything could set Trump off, including tweets. It was an obvious trap set by the Clinton campaign that Donald Trump fell right into.
Hillary Clinton delivered an outstanding acceptance speech that made Donald Trump look like a rambling, insane, unqualified fool.
Former President Clinton buried reality star Donald Trump with a masterful convention speech that could have only been delivered by one of the all-time great American political stars.
This kind of high-minded spiritual leadership is sorely lacking on the Republican side, which is focused on demonizing Black Lives Matter instead of listening.
Actresses America Ferrera and Lena Dunham spoke at the Democratic convention and did a better job of taking on Donald Trump than all of the Republican candidates combined.
President of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund Cecile Richards jolted the DNC Tuesday night when she said of Hillary Clinton, “This isn’t just about electing the first woman president, it’s about electing this woman president.”
It was a rowdy scene in Philly as after a Monday that came with bumps; Democrats were ready to celebrate as they made history by nominating Hillary Clinton.
“Hard to believe that Bernie Sanders has done such a complete fold. He got NOTHING for all of the time, energy and money.”
There was no Ted Cruz moment in Bernie Sanders speech. Instead, Sen. Sanders said goodbye to his presidential campaign and moved his supporters towards voting for Hillary Clinton in November.
Elizabeth Warren delivered a stinging indictment of Trump, but she went deeper. She talked about Trump’s version of America.
First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the best slam on Trump of the night at the Democratic convention.
It got earth-shakingly loud at the Democratic convention after comedian Sarah Silverman announced that she was voting for Hillary Clinton and when she called the Bernie or Bust people ridiculous.
The drama that cable news is playing up isn’t accurate. The view from inside the hall is very pro-Hillary Clinton.
Republicans are excited about a series of new polls that show Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton after the GOP convention, but Mitt Romney had the same numbers at the same point during the 2012 election.
“The Democrats are in a total meltdown but the biased media will say how great they are doing! E-mails say the rigged system is alive & well!”
Sen. Bernie Sanders has stated that he wants to have a major influence on the Democratic platform. Today, the DNC gave him exactly that by awarding the Sanders camp nearly half of the delegates on the Democratic platform committee.
The DNC is set to offer Bernie Sanders seats on an important convention platform committee in a first step towards bringing Democrats together.
President Obama did a lot of good things in his convention speech, but here are the five brilliant points in his acceptance speech.
Barack Obama took the stage and portrayed America’s choice as between a president with a hopeful vision, and a bumbling, blundering tax cutting fool who offers nothing but darkness and despair.
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann recently declared that former Vice President Dick Cheney is a traitor, but I would take Olbermann’s comments about Cheney’s traitorous activities one step further. Plain and simple, Dick Cheney is a TERRORIST.
At his briefing today, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had a tough response to former vice president Dick Cheney’s criticism that Obama is dithering on the decision to add more troops in Afghanistan. Gibbs said that the vice president seems to have forgotten his role in the last seven years of Afghanistan.
In an interview today former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales came out in support of an investigation of CIA interrogators who may have broken the law. Gonzales said, “And if people go beyond that, I think it is legitimate to question and examine that conduct…” It looks like Cheney is standing alone again by defending torture.
After the Obama administration announced an investigation into the CIA’s interrogation tactics, both Dick and Liz Cheney returned to the Sunday morning talk shows. On ABC’s This Week Liz Cheney continued to claim that waterboarding is not torture, while over on Fox News Sunday, Dick Cheney continued to endorse torture.
Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) were on ABC’s This Week today where Kerry unloaded on former vice president Dick Cheney after Cheney blasted the decision to investigate CIA interrogation abuses. Kerry said, “Dick Cheney has shown through the years, frankly, a disrespect for the Constitution, for sharing of information with Congress…”
Last night Karl Rove was on FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor where he appears to have confirmed that the Bush administration routinely hid information from Congress, because they believed that the legislative branch could not be trusted. Rove stated that it is dangerous to give Congress any information. This attitude sums up the secrecy of the Bush White House.
Republican Senators hit the Sunday news show airwaves today to defend former Vice President Dick Cheney and the secret CIA domestic spying program. Senators Judd Gregg, Lamar Alexander, John Kyl, and John Cornyn all defended Cheney in some way, and they accused the Democrats of trying to use the story to provide political cover for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama.
I believe that Dick Cheney is a rapidly metastasizing cancer upon the body politic. President Obama has been very gracious — perhaps too gracious regarding the matter of that old Dick. Mr. Cheney is unrepentant regarding the issues of torture and wars of choice, and utterly convinced of the rightness of his actions. He thinks Mr. Obama is weak, effete, an “elite”. At the bottom of his heart there is only fear.
While being interviewed by ABC News’ Jake Tapper, potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) admitted that Cheney and Limbaugh’s leadership probably isn’t good for the Republican Party. He said that Limbaugh is one of those leaders, “who have had more than their share of time at a front-row seat.”
There is something interesting in the latest CNN/Opinion Research poll. Beyond finding that there is no current GOP favorite for the 2012 nomination, the poll also contained favorability ratings for notable national Republicans at the top of the list were moderates Colin Powell and John McCain. At the bottom were Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele.
While speaking at the National Press Club today, former vice president Dick Cheney, passed blame for 9/11 away from the Bush administration and on to former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke. Cheney said, Dick Clarke, who was the head of the counterrorism program in the run-up to 9/11. He obviously missed it.”
On CNBC tonight, former vice president Dick Cheney backed off of his claim that Colin Powell is no longer in the Republican Party. Even more shocking is the fact that Cheney apologized to Powell and said that he wasn’t trying to,”rearrange his political identity.”
In a bit of outrageous distortion former vice president Dick Cheney said in an interview with Larry Kudlow that will air on CNBC tonight that the Obama administration is solely to blame for the government takeover of failing industries and corporations. I have three letters for Dick Cheney A-I-G.
In an interview given to Radio Free Europe over the weekend Gen. David Petraeus backed President Obama’s position that the prison at Guantanamo Bay needs to be closed, and he also disagreed with former vice president Dick Cheney by saying that enhanced interrogation techniques do not help the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Colin Powell was on Face the Nation this morning, and he used his appearance to fire back at both Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney’s claims that he is not a Republican anymore. Powell said that Cheney had been misinformed, and Limbaugh is an entertainer who is entitled to his own opinion.
According to the New York Times, former vice president Dick Cheney is asking for $2 million for his memoirs, which will cover his political career. Cheney’s book will be one of seven works that are being written by former members of the Bush administration. My question is who would pay millions for a book that is certain to end up in the dollar bin?
Last night on CNN, Liz Cheney revealed that her father former vice president Dick Cheney is speaking out in defense of torture right now because he is afraid of being prosecuted for war crimes. Apparently, the person that Cheney is most interested in protecting is himself.
Tonight on his MSNBC show Countdown, host Keith Olbermann dismantled former vice president Dick Cheney’s speech in defense of the Bush administration’s legacy on a point by point basis. Olbermann said that the vice president has humiliated himself beyond dimension. Check out the video.
During his speech at the American Enterprise Institute today, former vice president Dick Cheney continued to offer up his version of the Bush administration. Today Cheney said that the release of two memos will lead to the Bush administration, “will stand up well in history,” but the most striking part of his speech was his fond remembrance of America’s fear after 9/11.
Former Deputy Sec. of State Liz Cheney was on ABC’s This Week today, and she defended her father Dick Cheney against a report this week that he wanted a detainee waterboarded to prove an Iraq/al-Qaeda connection. Cheney said that her dad would never substitute his own judgment for that of the CIA. Need she be reminded that her father once tried to declare his office a separate branch of the government?
The new issue of Newsweek features an interview with President Barack Obama where he, in part, discusses former vice president Dick Cheney’s recent criticism of him. Obama pointed out that Dick Cheney is still fighting the same battle on national security that he lost during the last few years of the Bush administration.
In a move that is certain to fuel more controversy, the Obama administration has turned down former vice president Dick Cheney’s request for the release of two memos that he believes will prove the effectiveness of harsh interrogation tactics.
While campaigning for Virginia gubernatorial candidate, and Clinton insider, Terry McAuliffe, former President Bill Clinton laughed off former vice president Dick Cheney’s attacks against President Barack Obama and the Democrats. Clinton had a simple message for Cheney, “It’s over.”
Jesse Ventura was on Larry King Live last night discussing waterboarding. As a former Navy Seal, Ventura had been waterboarded. He called the tactic torture and drowning. He also volunteered to waterboard Dick Cheney. He said that under waterboarding he could get Cheney to confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
Former vice president Dick Cheney kept up the bad blood between himself and former Sec. of State Colin Powell by saying that he thought Powell wasn’t even in the GOP anymore. He used Rush Limbaugh as the political standard for being a Republican.
In an interview with North Dakota radio host Scott Hennen former vice president Dick Cheney said that it would be a mistake for the Republican Party to become more moderate. He said that doing so would mean changing the fundamental philosophy of the GOP. Cheney also said that the older Republicans should move on, but yet he is still here, helping the Democrats.
Former VP Dick Cheney gave an interview to The Weekly Standard, in which he claimed that he publicly criticizes President Obama because he is fighting for the little guy. Cheney claimed to be defending the lower level Bush administration people on the torture issue. The problem with Cheney’s statement is that President Obama has made it clear that he is not interested in prosecuting the little guy.
The former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Ret. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson was on The Rachel Maddow Show where he described former vice president Dick Cheney as a man who frightens easily. Wilkerson also said that Cheney is trying to set up a legal defense for himself against torture charges.
The biggest news to come from Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee today came when she was asked about former vice president Dick Cheney’s call for the release of memos that prove torture works. Clinton said, “I don’t consider him a particularly reliable source.”
Sen. Patrick Leahy was on MSNBC’s The Ed Show tonight, where he extended an invitation to former vice president Dick Cheney to testify before his Senate Judicial Committee. Leahy said that if Cheney is so concerned about torture, then he should come before Congress and answer a few questions.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was on Fox News Channel’s Hannity last night, where he claimed that he has never attacked personally attack President Obama , but in the very same interview Cheney said he was disturbed by Obama’s, “apologizing for America, and his cozying up to dictators.”
The New York Times is reporting that the ol’ gang from the Bush administration is getting together for a reunion and a brainstorming session for the George W. Bush Policy Institute, but the one person who won’t be there is former VP Dick Cheney who is still upset that W. wouldn’t pardon his best boy, Scooter Libby.
The feud between the Obama administration and former vice president Dick Cheney took another step today as current vice president Joe Biden blasted Cheney. He said that Cheney was dead wrong on national security, and he guaranteed that America is safer under the Obama administration.
Last month journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story that the Bush administration used an executive assassination ring to go into countries and execute people on a hit list. Today on CNN’s The Situation Room, former Cheney aide John Hannah said that a list of targets exists and there are troops in the field who have the authority to capture or kill certain individuals.
In a piece in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh about the complexities facing the Obama administration on the issue of Syria, Hersh reports that now former vice president Dick Cheney tried to sabotage the relationship between then president elect Obama and Israel by saying that Obama was pro-Palestinian and that he would never support their efforts.
Today on CNN’s State of the Union program, Centcom Commander Gen. David Petraeus disagreed with former vice president Dick Cheney’s statement that President Obama’s national security policy has made the US safe and more vulnerable to a terrorist attack. Petraeus also came out against the Bush torture policy.
Some congressional Republicans have been expressing grief that former vice president Dick Cheney has been attacking President Obama in the media. It is fair to say that they would like the unpopular Cheney to return to his secure, undisclosed location.
The Dick Cheney/Obama feud is set to continue when Obama is interviewed on CBS’s 60 Minutes tomorrow night.
Former vice president Dick Cheney was on CNN’s State of the Union today, and he absolved
On Fox News Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney denied that he had dangerously expanded the powers of the executive branch while also criticizing Vice President Elect Joe Biden for wanting to diminish the office of the vice president.
Wow.
Really?
Some times, a story is just almost too good to be true, too funny to ignore, and just too plain stupid to not pass along to as many people as possible.
Former Republican Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa is hosting a conference call today to kick off the Republicans for Obama campaign. The twist to this story is that Leach is a long time friend of Vice President Dick Cheney, and a supporter of campaign finance reform.
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