Nailing Dick Cheney (VP-Nut House)

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Wash Post's Froomkin nails Cheney

by John in DC - 8/14/2006 02:46:00 PM

I'm not even going to quote anything from Froomkin's piece. It's a tour de force. He has found pretty much every editorial and article out there criticizing Cheney and the GOP (and Lieberman) for politicizing the new recent terror alert. There are an entire day's worth of excellent links in Froomkin's one piece - read it, it's a gold mine.

Okay, I lied. I'm quoting this part of Froomkin's story that had me laughing out loud.
I'm not a Washington Post political reporter, but Jonathan Weisman is, and here's what he had to say in a Live Online discussion last week:

"Medford, Mass.: Exactly how is it that our sitting Vice President can get away with saying basically that people who exercised their constitutional right to vote for change (ie: Conn. primary) are helping terrorists? How is this not the headline of a story, instead of a footnote?

"Jonathan Weisman: The vice president also said the insurgency in Iraq is in its death throes, and that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators. I'm afraid to say his utterances are losing their news value."

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/08/wash-posts-froomkin-nails-cheney.html

The foiled "terror plot" has drawn the usual houseflies to their usual dung-heaps, with the same resulting stench. The responses of Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. Joseph Lieberman were as slimy as they were desperate.President George W. Bush emerged momentarily from his bike-riding vacationing in Crawford, Texas, to yelp about "Islamic fascists" out to destroy freedom. This insipid appearance captured a sitting president expressing surprise upon spotting a band of hornets when it was he, after all, who stirred up the nest.

Adding battery to assault, Bush now blames al-Qaida for the British plot. Yet, in March '02, Bush was asked about the man who brought down the Twin Towers, the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, who remained alive and free. His answer: "I don't know where (bin Laden) is. Nor - you know, I just don't spend that much time on him, really, to be honest with you ... I truly am not that concerned about him."

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-oppay134849022aug13,0,6192627.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

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1. Excellent!!!

K & R

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[PA Democrat]

2. Dick's tired old line of BS isn't selling anymore, is it?

K & R

[Reckon]

3. The repubs hate democracy.. I.E. fair elections!

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4. Wow! Junior "made short work" of Camus' "The Stranger"!

Tony Snow wants us to be impressed.

My old paperback copy has very big type, wide margins on the pages and is still only 154 pages long.

Ooooh.