Ha! She aims, she scores...Cheney is on the way out!

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The test-leaks have begun. David Letterman's top ten list tonight was "Signs that Bush might dump Cheney from the ticket."

#10: White House interns no longer have to learn CPR

#9: "For Sale" sign is up at the undisclosed location

#8: When Cheney says "We're going to win in November, Bush says, "What do you mean, 'we,' bubba?"

#7 thru 1 - I missed because I was laughing. Bitterly. He will retire to Halliburton Island in the South Pacific after all, and be the unofficial scapegoat for the so-called intelligence problem re Iraq. They all get away with it.

:rolleyes:
 
The man has had three heart attacks and carries rescusitation equipment with him at all times, Blacksnake. He is the obvious person to act as scapegoat by dropping out of the race. Most people have thought he would not run for a second term anyway, because of his health.
 
It is a shame, isn't it? Because the joke was always about Cheney being protected at all costs.

(Screw Bush, we gotta save the man with the brains!)

And now they'll force him to retire with a permanent aura of shame instead of for his obvious health reasons?

Pathetic.
 
sweetsubsarahh said:
It is a shame, isn't it? Because the joke was always about Cheney being protected at all costs.

(Screw Bush, we gotta save the man with the brains!)

And now they'll force him to retire with a permanent aura of shame instead of for his obvious health reasons?

Pathetic.

:mad: Politics:mad:
 
sweetsubsarahh said:
And now they'll force him to retire with a permanent aura of shame instead of for his obvious health reasons?

I don't think he's being forced to do anything. He was in charge of the fiasco, he accomplished his goals, and it's time for the payoff. I'm willing to bet he feels no shame. How could he have so openly delivered our foreign policy into the hands of his friends and business associates, evidently pressuring the CIA to tell the story he wanted told or else, if he had a sense of shame? His health was always in question; it's an "honorable" way out.

His work is done. The rebuilding contracts are in place, the president has made a commitment to a space program with input from Halliburton who can benefit from experimental drilling projects at taxpayer expense, Halluburton continues to benefit from Iraq contracts despite having already overbilled by upwards of $60 million; the courts have not attempted to force Cheney to release transcripts of the "Energy Taskforce" that helped define our energy policy, or even the names of everyone he invited to attend; neither has anyone shown a particular interest in the fact that he was on the board at Halliburton when they violated our trade ban with Iraq by using foreign-registered subsidiaries.

What's to feel sad about? He'd done what he set out to do.
 
I feel sad that he'll take the fall for the idiot currently in charge.

Then again, I forgot about Halliburton and all those overpriced contracts.

So is everyone in Washington a lying piece of shit??

It takes a seriously warped mind to understand the intricate evil details of politics.

(As I said on a thread a few days ago I want to crawl into a hole and wake up in November when there's a new president.)
 
sweetsubsarahh said:
I feel sad that he'll take the fall for the idiot currently in charge.

Then again, I forgot about Halliburton and all those overpriced contracts.

So is everyone in Washington a lying piece of shit??

It takes a seriously warped mind to understand the intricate evil details of politics.

(As I said on a thread a few days ago I want to crawl into a hole and wake up in November when there's a new president.)

Don't feel sad, Sarahh. Cheny is the idiot currently in charge. :rolleyes:
 
It's a monarchy... sounds pretty beeped to me ;) - and besides - the number of yachts and ridiculous high-rise luxury hotels and racing cars (very useful on those twisty, twisty Provancal and Ligurian roads...) indicate a certain...decadence? Personal insecurity? Penis envy on the part of the car owners :eek:
 
sweetsubsarahh said:
I feel sad that he'll take the fall for the idiot currently in charge.

Then again, I forgot about Halliburton and all those overpriced contracts.

So is everyone in Washington a lying piece of shit??

It takes a seriously warped mind to understand the intricate evil details of politics.

(As I said on a thread a few days ago I want to crawl into a hole and wake up in November when there's a new president.)

I want to crawl in there with you, but if we stay in our hole there won't be a new president when we come out.

I don't think the idiot in charge was ever in charge. My mind is just warped enough that I get that part.

:D
 
PierceStreet said:
WildSweetOne : How many couches do you have for us while we house hunt?

Like she wants us over there, now that we're all done over here. Right.

:rolleyes:
 
shereads said:
New Zealand seems nice.

Anybody have any dirt on New Zealand politics?

I hope there is dirt! Otherwise it's gotta be a very bare and desolate place :D

but seriously,

Does a history based on the systematic and structural repression of the Maori peoples count? :confused:

I bet some New Zealander could find some dirt...otherwise I don't see what I'm doin' livin' here an' not there... ;)
 
New Zealand's Prime Minister is Helen Clark I think. New Zealand has a weird system at the moment, where Clark's party is in government, but doesn't have an overall majority.

I think we can officially write New Zealand off.

The Earl
 
perdita said:
Gawd, the Bushsmirk: horror supreme.

Perdita :(


I know. I started to use it as my AV, but I considered the .000000000001% possibility of demonic possession - or just waking up tomorrow with a third of my brain missing - and decide to let Bushsmirk suffice as an attachment.

Rumour is, he's had a nose job. It does look different in this older shot - pointier, or maybe piggier. Letterman said last night: If it's true that Bush has had a nose job, it's the first new job that's been created since he took offoce."

:rolleyes:

Meanwhile, from Doonesbury, the comic strip that helped keep me sort of sane as I grew up from Nixon-voting high school kid to mid-life-crisis feminist liberal:
 

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I hear that there is plenty of room on the moon, but it's high mantainence to live there.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man
 
I hear that there is plenty of room on the moon, but it's high mantainence to live there.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man
 
Dirt Man said:
I hear that there is plenty of room on the moon, but it's high mantainence to live there.
Just try to get a pizza delivered.

Speaking of which...in today's Miami Herald, there's a local story about the arrest of a group of thugs who've been ordering pizza delivered to a phony address, waiting in the shrubbery for the kid to arrive and then whacking him over the head with a pipe, and robbing him.

The police set up a sting, and when the thugs phoned in an order using the same fake address as the last time, an undercover officer was posing as the delivery man and the gang of thugs were arrested just as one of them was about to deliver the blow to the back of the head. The odd part of this story is this comment from the investigating detective's supervisor: "Now people will be able to order pizza again and know that it will be delivered."

:rolleyes:
 
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