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Opinion: Liz Cheney’s End Game Is To Make Republican Authoritarianism Palatable
Liz Cheney does not oppose the authoritarianism and anti-democratic impulses of the Republican Party.
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Opinion: Manchin’s Betrayal Typifies Long-Standing Conservative Misinformation Campaign Against American Worker
The ongoing public negotiation among Manchin, Biden, and progressive Democrats has made clear that Manchin has been trafficking the same old stale misinformation fiscal conservatives have been peddling for ages.
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Opinion: Don’t be Fooled By Liz Cheney’s “Stand”: There Is No Conservative Conscience In GOP
The problem Cheney and the other never-Trumpers have with Trump and the current Republican Party is that it has exposed the reality of the traditional GOP, pulled back the curtain of dignified phrases and codes to reveal its anti-egalitarian, racist, and undemocratic character.
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Opinion: As Impeachment Trial Begins, Let’s Remember The Republican History Of Big Lies
The “big lie†is not unique to Trump but rather constitutes a long-standing Republican tradition and political practice that, far from distinguishing itself from Trump’s governance, in fact enabled and even created it.
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Matt Gaetz Mocks Dick Cheney and Mitch McConnell in Visit to Liz Cheney’s Home State of Wyoming
Donald Trump is no longer the President and spends most of his time at his Mar-a-Lago club. He has also lost the use of his Twitter account, which was until recently, his favorite way to connect with his supporters. Still, the ex-President has his sycophants in Washington DC who are still pushing the message of…
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A Big Red Flag Is Raised As Trump’s VP Sees Dick Cheney as His Role Model
Donald Trump’s Vice Presidential pick Governor Mike Pence said he holds former Republican VP Dick Cheney “in really high regard in his role as vice president” and like Cheney, he aspires to be “a very active vice president.â€
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Hypocrite and Moral Failure Dick Cheney Attacks President Obama on the Anniversary of 9/11
On the anniversary of 9/11, Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked the sitting president of the United States in order to blame President Obama for the mistakes of the Bush Cheney administration.
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War Criminal Cheney Honored At The Capital While The World Battles His Co-Creation ISIS
Few Americans would object to a bust honoring Dick Cheney if it noted his part in creating a more radical form of Islamic terrorism
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Warmonger Tom Cotton Wants To Put Dick Cheney In Charge Of The House
Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton wants to put chickenhawk Dick Cheney back into a position of political power.
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Things Are So Bad For Republicans That War Criminal Dick Cheney Could Be Speaker
With the Republicans in the House desperate for a new leader, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has suggested that former vice president Dick Cheney be the next Speaker of the House.
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President Obama Hammers Putin, Donald Trump, and Dick Cheney In UN Address
President Obama laid out his comprehensive foreign policy ideology while hammering a diverse group of critics that ranged from Dick Cheney to Vladimir Putin, to Donald Trump.
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Fox News Turns On Dick Cheney And Exposes His Record Of Failure On Iran
In a rare and stunning moment, the truth was revealed on Fox News Sunday as host Chris Wallace exposed Dick Cheney’s record of failure on stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
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Desperate Republicans Turn To War Criminal Dick Cheney As Obama Closes In On Iran Deal Victory
As another Democratic senator announced, her support for the Iran deal increasingly desperate Republicans are turning to former Vice President Dick Cheney to give a major address against the deal.
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Lindsey Graham Blames President Obama For The Mess That He Helped Cause In Iraq
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham insisted on Monday that the Iraq War was not a mistake.
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One Bush is Like Another: Jeb Doesn’t Know. Jeb Doesn’t Care
It is hard to believe Jeb Bush really wants to be president, with the things he says. Maybe it’s just that he’s missing a Dick Cheney of his own
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Religious Right: GOP Will Never Win Presidency if They Soften Gay Rights Stance
The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana
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Republican And Netanyahu Bloodlust Drives Nuclear Deal Criticism
The neo-con’s solution has been fulfilling Netanyahu’s twenty-three year campaign for Americans to die in a war with the Islamic Republic of Iran primarily because Israel wants to be the only Middle East nation with an American-provided nuclear arsenal.
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Congressional Republicans Are Still Angry They Are Not The President
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The latest outrage, the open letter signed by 47 Republican senators, is the greatest sign to date that the spoiled little children are throwing a fit and are furious they are not allowed to be president and control foreign policy.
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A Petition Has Been Launched To Prosecute and Expel John Boehner From Congress
This week a MoveOn.org petition began circulating for the purpose of prosecuting Speaker of the House John A. Boehner for willfully breaking a federal law when he knowingly violated the 216 year-old Logan Act.
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Nancy Pelosi Slams Netanyahu For Insulting America’s Intelligence
What makes Netanyahu and Republicans ‘condescending insult’ even more infuriating and egregious is that he is demanding half-a-billion dollars more from American taxpayers for Israel’s military; more on that later.
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Jon Stewart Uses Brian Williams Fiasco To Call Out Media For Accepting Bush’s Iraq War Lies
During Monday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart addressed the recent revelation that NBC News anchor Brian Williams had made false claims about taking rocket fire during a helicopter ride in Iraq in 2003.
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Time To Prosecute House Speaker John Boehner For Violating Federal Law
Like every common criminal, or once-convicted felon, who continues to escape punishment for violating the law, Boehner continues his unethical, and now illegal, behavior because he truly believes he IS above the law. It is time to disabuse Boehner of that belief and restore the American people’s faith in the nation’s justice system.
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Betty Bowers Looks at the Religious Right’s Best of 2014
Betty Bowers nails Dick Cheney by pointing out that for him, rectal feeding “is just eating through his mouth.” That explains a lot!
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Dick Cheney and Evangelical Christians Epitomize Dark Age Barbarism
Instead of shame and humiliation that this government condoned and defended myriad human rights violations, one of the architects of torture, Dick Cheney and several Bush officials hit the airwaves defending torture with overwhelming support from the religious right.
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New York Times Editorial Calls for Investigation and Prosecution of Torturers in Bush Administration
The Times says this is “about ensuring that this never happens again and regaining the moral credibility to rebuke torture by other governments”
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Republicans Condemn North Korean Human Rights Violations While Ignoring Their Own
The hypocrisy of this nation co-sponsoring a resolution condemning anyone country for human rights abuses (torture) is beyond the pale. Particularly in light of the recent Senate Intelligence Report verifying what the world has known for several years; America is guilty of committing gross human rights abuses on its own citizens and “suspected terrorists” held in captivity.
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Scalia Is Wrong: The Constitution Prohibits Torture and GOP Civil Rights Violations
Conservatives have proffered every possible scenario to justify torture, including Supreme Court Justice Scalia invoking a fictional television counter-terrorism agent, Jack Bauer, torturing alleged terror suspects to stop a fictional attack on America.
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Dick Cheney Flips and Provides Evidence That George W. Bush Committed War Crimes
On Meet The Press, former vice president Dick Cheney claimed that he did not need a presidential pardon because he did not commit a crime, but he also threw George W. Bush under the bus by providing evidence that the former president committed war crimes.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fox Family Values
Since hitting the cable dial in 1996, Fox “News” Channel values have been on full display: Anti-truth chief among them. Even when caught in flat-out lies, Fox “News” rarely issues apologies.
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Dick Cheney Says Senate Torture Report That He Hasn’t Even Read Is “Full Of Crap”
Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Fox News Wednesday night to defend the Bush Administration’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and dispute the findings of a Senate panel’s report regarding torture. One problem — he hadn’t read the report.
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Republicans Are Idiots – But Kirk Cameron’s Movie Officially Sucks So Cheer Up
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas has lower ratings than Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 and The Hottie & The Nottie, and a big fat 0 at Rotten Tomatoes
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Senate Fights To Release Report Detailing Bush-Cheney’s CIA Torture Program
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee responsible for the report, Senator Dianne Feinstein, is incensed over the CIA’s fight to release the report which included revelations the CIA spied on and infiltrated the Senate committee investigating the Bush-Cheney torture program.
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The GOP is Getting Hysterical Over Impending Immigration Executive Action
Republicans are even talking about embarrassing themselves with another lawsuit, like the one that worked so well with healthcare reform
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Wesley Clark Calls for a New National Strategy to Unite and Move us Forward
Clark outlines the challenges facing us, which together, he argues, “are exactly the grounds over which a national strategy must be unfurled.”
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Lace ‘Em Up: Why Neo-Conservatives Are So Anxious To Put Boots On The Ground
Republicans are itching to bring in ground troops against ISIS. The reason stems from an incessant desire to prove American superiority through military means.
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SOFA Has Become As Mythical for Fox News as George W. Bush
The one thing you will never hear mentioned by Fox News is SOFA. It gets in the way of their Obama is to blame for ISIL narrative
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The World Wakes Haggis-Free, But Gay People Walk Among Us
The threat of oil-engorged Scottish armies marching roughshod over Europe and from there across the Atlantic to force a steady diet of haggis on us has abated
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The Heritage Foundation Hits Up The Little Guy
The Heritage Foundation is located right in the middle of the DC power corridor and well it should be, as arguably the most powerful right-wing think tank of them all.
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House Republicans Conspire With War Criminal Dick Cheney to Plot Iraq Strategy
House Republicans met with war criminal Dick Cheney for counsel on dealing with IS, and likely to promote a new Iraq war.
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Bill Clinton Tears Dick Cheney a New One For Trying To Blame Iraq Violence On Obama
Former President Bill Clinton delivered a charmingly devastating blow to former Vice President Dick Cheney today as he pushed back hard on Cheney’s criticism of Obama’s Iraq policy.
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Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh Claim That President Obama Is Deliberately Hurting America
On Tuesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, appeared on The Rush Limbaugh Show to discuss Iraq and basically trash the President. All three people claimed that Obama is hurting America on purpose.
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Obama Hits Back Against GOP Warmongers: No Amount Of US Firepower Can Hold Iraq Together
On CNN’s New Day, President Obama made his strongest statement yet against Republicans who are calling for ground troops in Iraq. The president said, “There’s no amount of American firepower that’s going to be able to hold the country together.”
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Dick Cheney Claims Obama Is ‘Dead Wrong’ On Iraq While Rand Paul Insists Cheney Is To Blame
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday to discuss the recent violence in Iraq, as well as his infamous op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where he claimed that President Obama is directly responsible for the chaos in Iraq and the Middle East.
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Dick Cheney Falls Apart and Admits That He Has No Answers On Iraq
When pressed on ABC’s This Week for a solution to the problems in Iraq, former vice president Dick Cheney’s Obama criticism fell apart as he couldn’t come up with an answer.
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The Neocon Iraqi Lie the Mainstream Media Won’t Let Die
The sad truth is that Iraq is in the shape it is today in because of what the US has already done. How, we must ask ourselves now, is doing it again going to undo it?
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Harry Reid Blasts Cheney Says All He Wants To Hear From Former VP Is an Apology for Iraq
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the Senate floor today to rip into Dick Cheney for pushing more war with Iraq. Reid said, “To be on the wrong side of Dick Cheney is to be on the right side of history.”
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Dick Cheney Rewrites History And Blames Iraq Violence On Obama In Disgusting Op-Ed
Dick Cheney, along with his daughter Liz, penned an unbelievable piece of retcon tripe for the Wall Street Journal where they claimed that Obama lost the war that was already won, while at the same time positioning Dick Cheney as a hero.
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George W. Bush’s Head Cheerleader For The Iraq War Forgets What Year The War Started
Ari Fleischer, the White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush during the early years of the Iraq War. took to Twitter on Friday to help conservatives pin the blame on Obama for the recent surge of violence in Iraq.
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Conservative Racists Are Attacking the Bergdahl Family for Associating With Obama
The giveaway that all the animus toward Sergeant Bergdahl is based in conservative racism usually reserved for people of color, particular the person of color in the Oval Office, is the Republican hypocrisy they have demonstrated over the past five years holding President Obama to a different set of standards than his white Republican predecessors.
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Lindsey Graham’s Threat to Impeach The President Is Racial Animus Towards Obama
Graham is doing his best to take up the slack and perpetuate racial animus toward people of color; particularly the person of color occupying the Oval Office.
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Waterboarding Coward Sean Hannity and War Criminal Dick Cheney Call Obama a Weak President
A coward who backed out on a promise to be waterboarded, and scammed the troops (Sean Hannity) teamed up with a vice president who committed war crimes (Dick Cheney) to label Obama the weakest president in a lifetime.
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The Ultimate ‘Dick’ Move: Cheney Blames Hillary Clinton for Benghazi
In a mind-blowing display of arrogance, war criminal Dick Cheney said that Hillary Clinton should be held responsible for Benghazi.
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Stephen Colbert Brilliantly Mocks The Neo-Con Fascination With Neverending War
On Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert brilliantly took down conservatives’s positions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Looking Like a Sure Loser Liz Cheney Cuts and Runs On Her Hopeless Senate Campaign
Liz Cheney, recently a Fox News contributor and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, decided to dropout of the US Senate race in Wyoming on Monday.
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The Big Oil and Gas-Owned Republican House Trying to Do the Fracking Bidding of Big Gas and Oil
The political attention of most Americans has been concentrated on the latest developments at HealthCare.gov. Meanwhile fracking explodes.
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George W. Bush Returns As The Statute of Limitations on His War Crimes Expires in 2 Months
George W. Bush, has made his presence known with two appearances over the past week, and it is likely because the statute of limitations to convict the war criminal are set to expire in two months.
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Jake Tapper Busts Dick Cheney on His ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’ Comment
Jake Tapper has gone rogue since moving to CNN. In his interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney in which he challenged Cheney on his “deficits don’t matter” comment.
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Reality Messing with your Narrative? Invent a More Congenial World
Republicans can talk about things that never happened as though they did, but Democrats cannot talk about things that DID actually happen
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Dick Cheney Smears The President By Claiming Obama Thinks Bush Overreacted to 9/11
On ABC’s This Week, Dick Cheney smeared President Obama by claiming that the president thought Bush overreached after 9/11.
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Sex, Finger-Giving, Crotch-Grabbing and Mike Ditka Beating Obama in 2004
The year 2004 saw Republican sex, crotch grabbing, finger-giving and f-you’s and Ditka missing his big chance to change history
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Hypocrisy Overload: Dick Cheney Calls Edward Snowden a Traitor
Dick Cheney helped mislead the country into invading Iraq and has been convicted of war crimes, but he thinks Edward Snowden is a traitor.
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GOP Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma Calls Obama Unfit and Biden Embarrassing
On Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), forgot not only President Bush but his fellow ethically-challenged House Republicans, and excoriated President Barack Obama from the House floor.
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SEAL Team 6 Gate Replaces Benghazi as Worst Scandal Ever
Benghazi was bigger than Watergate (and apparently, 9/11 as well) but “Seal Team 6-Gate” is bigger even than Benghazi! (and Benghazi was totally the worst scandal ever, right? Well, not so much…).
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Jon Stewart Tells Rumsfeld and Cheney Obama’s Transgressions Do Not Wipe Away Theirs
After the war criminals Rumsfeld and Cheney criticized Obama, Jon Stewart reminded them of their own grievous misdeeds
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Dick Cheney Whose Lies Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People Says Benghazi is Worse
Dick Cheney whose lies are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths went on Fox News to claim that Benghazi is the worst scandal that he has ever seen.
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WTF: War Criminal Dick Cheney Wants Hillary Clinton Subpoenaed
Cheney, who has been claiming executive privilege since he was Defense Secretary, told Republicans, ‘I think Hillary (Clinton) should be subpoenaed if necessary.’
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War Criminal George W. Bush Should Be Given An Indictment Not a Library
The concept of giving kind regards to a convicted war criminal whose only relationship to a library should be a weekly visit to a federal prison library reveals that many Americans have short memories
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War Criminal Dick Cheney Warns Republicans They’re In Deep Doo-Doo On N. Korea
Wearing a cowboy hat, your former Vice President Dick Cheney warned Republicans that we are in deep ‘doo-doo’ on North Korea.
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Another Sign Obama’s Doing a Good Job: War Criminal Dick Cheney Thinks America Isn’t Safe
Cheney claims the President’s national security team choices put the nation at risk because they do not support Bush-Cheney policies that did increase the risks to America; his logic defies reason.
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McCain Confirms Romney’s Desire for an Indefinite Iraq and Afghanistan Presence
John McCain confirmed this morning that a Mitt Romney administration would leave our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq indefinitely.
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As Romney Sinks, Netanyahu and GOP Push for War Before the US Elections
Netanyahu’s vague conflations of the attacks on our embassies with the regime in Iran are being to force Obama’s hand.
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Chasing Mitt Romney’s Hypocritical, Blindfolded, Ever-Changing Libya Positions
Mitt Romney is not a leader, even conservatives have called his foreign policy positions ridiculous and accused him of merely mimicking others’.
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Trying to Distract from His Own 9/11 Failures, Dick Cheney Whines About Obama
Dick Cheney is desperately trying to distract from the new NYT evidence against Bush ignoring 9/11 intel by falsely accusing President Obama of ignoring intel, because Obama prefers to read his own intel.
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Demand the GOP be Held Accountable for their Un-American Attacks on Obama
The ideology that involves identification with a nation is nationalism, and it serves to bind individuals together to work for a common goal that benefits a nation and its population. Most Americans are nationalistic and take pride in this country’s accomplishments, values, and philosophy that freedom and equality are the foundation of what it means…
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War Criminal Dick Cheney Calls President Obama Un-American
On Fox News, former vice president Dick Cheney claimed that President Obama doesn’t believe in things that Americans believe in, and doesn’t understand America.
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Dick Cheney Reminds Us That Romney Still Has Stateside Messes to Clean
Dick Cheney, popped out of his cryogenic chamber to remind the voting public that there are still plenty of Stateside imbroglios to which candidate Romney must attend.
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Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher Have the Best Discussion Ever About Iran-Contra
Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher use a discussion of the Iran-Contra Affair to show why Dick Cheney is the center of all evil in the universe.
The Latest Schadenfreude: Big Oil Republicans Blame Obama for Gas Prices
The right is attempting to have it both ways on gas prices. They are protecting Big Oil’s profits, while blaming President Obama for the high price of gas.
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Meet the ALEC Lobbyists Behind Mitt Romney and Find Out What They Want From You
Remember the dark days of Dick Cheney’s secretive Enron meetings? Well, they’re coming for you again only this time, they’re wearing a Mitt mask.
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Conservative Blindness to the Line Between Fantasy and Fact Exposed…Again
Republican rhetoric has become so outrageous they have lost the ability to tell fact from fantasy. Clueless, they nod sagely while the rest of the world laughs.
Gasland: Dick Cheney Poisons Your Drinking Water Too
Just in case you thought Dick Cheney’s culpability for environmental destruction was limited to offshore drilling and the Gulf oil spill, here is Watergate II. Only this time, it’s literally about water, specifically how Dick Cheney and Halliburton poisoned our drinking water.
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Dick Cheney Resurfaces to Criticize Obama for the Gulf Oil Spill
Dick Cheney came out of hiding yesterday long enough to poke his head up in Erie, PA, and not take responsibility for the administration which he was a part of and their reckless deregulation of big oil, nope he popped up to criticize Obama. He said that Obama lacks the, “executive experience” to deal with the spill.
Crazy vs Evil: Massa Claims Cheney is plotting a Coup against Obama
Disgraced former Congressman Eric Massa, of the infamous Glenn Beck interview, is back again with a new charge that Dick Cheney is engaged in treasonous activity by hatching a conspiracy to get Gen. David Petraeus elected president in 2012 as a Republican. Massa told Esquire, “we would be witness to an American coup d’état.” Petraeus denies it, and Cheney is not talking.
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Dick Cheney’s Deregulation to Blame for “Obama’s Katrina”
The evidence is in: Halliburton, Dick Cheney, secret energy task force meetings and massive Republican deregulation has once again led to tragedy. The April 20, 2010. Gulf oils spill is yet another story of careless, reckless deregulation and corruption under the Bush administration which has led to loss of life, destruction of wildlife and the environment, loss of income, and more. The full impact of the oil sill is still unknown.
The Gulf Coast Oil Spill: Dick Cheney’s Katrina
This is the story of rampant deregulation in a never-ending ode to Profit as King, as propagated by the Bush/Cheney administration across all sectors of our economy, which didn’t end with Wall Street or mortgage lending or Enron. Indeed, the deregulation scandals extend now to off-shore drilling in the form of the missing Valve, a remote shut-off device called an acoustic switch. Dick Cheney may have had his hand in the Department of Interior’s decision not to mandate the valve for off-shore oil rigs.
By Helping Haiti Bush Shows Cheney How He Is Supposed to Behave
The effort of newly created Clinton Bush Haiti Fund will kick into high gear on Sunday as both Clinton and Bush will appear on all of the morning talk shows. The appearances will be George W. Bush’s first since leaving office. In contrast to his former vice president, Bush is showing Cheney how he is supposed to act.
Ron Paul Slams Dick Cheney For Criticizing Obama On National Security
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was on CNN’s Larry King Live last night, and he pulled no punches when the discussion turned to Dick Cheney’s recent criticisms of Obama’s national security policy. Paul said, “Well, I think he had his eight years and he’s caused a lot of trouble for our country and he perpetuated a war in Iraq that was unnecessary and wrong-headed.”
The White House Fires Back at Dick Cheney on Afghanistan
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.
Gonzales Disagrees With Dick Cheney by Supporting Torture Investigation
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.
Kerry: Dick Cheney Doesn’t Respect the Constitution
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…”
Republicans Keep Repeating the Big Bailout Lie
Today on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) tried to blame President Obama for the bank bailouts last fall. The Rev. Pat Robertson and Dick Cheney have also recently made the same claim, but by their definition of socialism, if Obama is a Socialist, so is George W. Bush, but this little fact hasn’t stopped the GOP from revising bailout history.
Former GOP Rep. Ney Challenges Alberto Gonzales to Try Waterboarding
On his radio show today, former Rep. Bob Ney challenged former attorney general Alberto Gonzales to still defend waterboarding as not torture, after he tried it. Ney said, “If Alberto Gonzales wants to clear his name by saying he didn’t cooperate in torture, then let him try it himself.”
Dick Cheney Blames Richard Clarke for 9/11
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.”
Petraeus Disagrees With Cheney on Closing Gitmo and Torture
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.
Dick Cheney wants $2 Million for His Memoirs
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?
Michael Steele: Confessions of a College Party Boy
RNC Chairman Michael Steele spoke to some Washington D.C. high school students for a C-SPAN Students and Leaders segment. Steele inspired the teens by telling them that he partied so much during his first year of college at John Hopkins that it got him kicked out of school. Steele said, “I partied my behind off.”
Cheney Waxes Nostalgically for the Good Old Days of 9/11
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.
Obama Describes Dick Cheney as a Man Still Fighting Lost Battles
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.
Obama Administration Turns down Cheney Torture Memo Request
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.
Bill Clinton Tells Dick Cheney It’s Over
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.”