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This Is What Happens When You Let Dick Cheney Out of His Undisclosed Location: The Reasons Behind the Madness

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 01/26/2007 - 6:15pm.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Americans were reminded of our hatred of the Vice-President after his bizarrely combative exchange with Wolf Blitzer in an interview the other day. Blitzer, hardly a liberal, gave Cheney fair but challenging questions which were met with hostile responses and non-responses.

Even Republican's think he's getting "a little strange."

Donald Rumsfeld faded disgracefully away into the background (well, sort of), but Cheney is stuck in the spotlight for another two years (barring, perhaps, another heart attack or two giving him a reason to leave). And his problems just don't seem to be going away. Bush has been taking most of the fall for the new Iraq escalation plans, but Cheney is still taking heat for his role in the initial invasion.

The new Senate Intelligence Chair, Jay Rockefeller, is now claiming that Cheney exerted "constant" pressure on his predecessor to stall investigations into the use of flawed intelligence. Republicans are denying it of course, but the allegations don't help, especially considering that Rockefeller is presumably intending to right the past wrongs and use his power to thoroughly investigate the administration. And that's bad news for Dick Cheney because he certainly knows what might turn up (including things we might not even know yet).

The Libby leak case is going even worse. Conventional wisdom predicted that Cheney's old chief of staff would take the blame for disclosing a CIA operative's identity and get a pardon before Bush leaves office. However, Scooter Libby is doing the opposite and blaming everyone else instead. There has already been some fun testimony from various officials implicating both Libby and Cheney. So far it's all "Veep-said, she said" but with any luck enough will come out to give Cheney his very own trial for obstruction of justice, if not more.

By deciding not to run for president, Cheney was probably hoping to cut his losses and salvage as much of his legacy as possible from his many decades in politics. Unfortunately for him, he can't escape his actions over the past six years. If the Libby trial and Iraq intel investigations follow their due course, expect many more entertaining interviews like the Wolf Blitzer one before his term is up.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

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off-topic, but..!

Submitted by Zee (not verified) on Sat, 01/27/2007 - 4:36pm.

I just wanted to say this is the MOST gratifying BF headline in AGES! Like the good old days!! Yay!

Godfather George Herbert Walker Bush Complains that the Corporate Press is Beating Up on Junior. Wah-Wah! LOL. Daddy Bush Says That He's Taken to Talking Back to the Television Set. Grab a Butterfly Net for that Bush Too.

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Just lie and keep on lying.

Submitted by rabblerowzer on Sat, 01/27/2007 - 5:18am.

Republicans have a winning political tactic that’s worked like magic for decades: Just lie and keep on lying.

But now the magic is wearing a little thin. So many of their lies have been exposed as lies that millions of Americans are beginning to doubt their credibility. The problem with lying about everything and getting caught at it, people begin to suspect that you might be lying all the time. When that happens, the lies you are telling now to cover up earlier lies begins to erode your political support.

Shaken but undaunted, Republicans will continue lying because it’s become an irresistible habit which they hope will keep them in office and out of prison.

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Five Deferment Dick tells us about courage

Submitted by roooth on Fri, 01/26/2007 - 9:37pm.

Blitzer's question about Cheney's daughter might have been out of line were it not for the following: Mary Cheney has used two things to advance herself professionally and financially - her father's political connections and her lesbianism.

She was hired by Coors to encourage gay people to drink their beer. She was hired by daddy's campaign to encourage gay people to vote against their own well-being.

Dick can growl all he likes, she put herself out there for profit. And wasn't Dick one of those who said it was "fair game" to out Valerie Plame? Whose only crime was dedicating her life to serving her country at great risk to herself?

As far as Dick beating up on Wolfie, and his bullshit about America not "having the stomach for a fight". Yeah, ol' five deferment Dick is going to explain courage to the rest of us.

After the revelations coming out of the Libby trial and the insanity of this interview, it is painfully obvious that Cheney must be removed from office as soon as possible.

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Memory Holiness

Submitted by Victor on Fri, 01/26/2007 - 9:25pm.

Now wait just a millenium, now! I distinctly remember Buzzflash (accurately) reporting that, in the course of investigating itself for the source of the traitorous Plame leak , the Bush White Wash inadvertently revealed that the son of a Bush HIMSELF was responsible by "authorizing" Cheney to declassify it. Why aren't we on to IMPEACHMENT of them both for that, among their myriad acts of treason and other high crimes against US and humanity?

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