Monday link dump: The sandwich party patriots
David Addington is now comfortably resting at the Heritage Foundation, instead of in jail. Make no mistake, he’ll be back as soon as the next Republican takes the White House. Glenn Beck’s rally...
View ArticleMedia got Cheney face-shooting story wrong
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi today has an excellent profile of Harry Whittington, the elderly Texas lawyer who was shot by Dick Cheney in a quail hunting accident back in 2006.The headline news...
View Article“Fair Game”: Ready for a Bush-era flashback yet?
Well, so maybe November wasn’t the perfect month to roll out “Fair Game,” director Doug Liman’s handsome mixed-bag drama about the Valerie Plame affair and the Bush administration’s war buildup, which...
View ArticleCheney to Bush: “Mary is gay”
When George W. Bush was on the verge of picking Dick Cheney as his running mate in 2000, Cheney felt obliged to tell Bush that his daughter Mary was gay, Bush reports in his new memoir, “Decision...
View ArticleNigeria charges Dick Cheney over bribery scheme
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency on Tuesday charged former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scheme involving oil services firm Halliburton Co. during time he served as its top official, a...
View ArticleThe latest Obama cheerleader is … Dick Cheney?
In May 2009, just a few months into the Obama administration, President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney gave dueling speeches on national security in Washington, with Cheney accusing the...
View ArticleCheney “interested in Gov. Palin” for 2012 presidential bid
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is declining to say who’s out front in the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes, but says he’ll be happy to participate in the process.Cheney sidestepped a chance...
View ArticleCheney to speak at Reagan centennial
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to speak in California to commemorate the centennial of President Ronald Reagan’s birth.His appearance Saturday night comes as conservatives are newly...
View ArticleObservations from a day of watching CPAC on TV
Unlike Justin Elliott, I am not at CPAC. But I am watching it on C-Span.Mitch McConnell, this morning: Opposing campaign finance reform was "like trying to get a deaf dog off a meat truck."David...
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Fox News congratulates Bush for bin Laden
Update (14:45): Even the BBC committed the dreaded faux pas. Update (13:44): Yet another typo to report on, this time from CNN. Wonkette noted that CNN.com reported there was "no indication Obama tried...
View ArticleDick Cheney “worships” Paul Ryan
During a rare public appearance in Houston Wednesday, Dick Cheney expressed his feelings about Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman whose budget blueprint -- which calls for turning Medicare...
View ArticleDick Cheney’s big fracking mess
"Hydrofracked: One man's quest for answers about natural gas drilling," by ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten, is the best story I have seen so far about the potential environmental dangers posed by...
View ArticleWhy people become chickenhawks
Since at least the Iraq War if not earlier, chickenhawkery has been a hallmark of American politics. From the 101st Fighting Keyboarders to the professional Draft-Dodging Neoconservatives to the...
View ArticleDick Cheney’s secret resignation letter
Former Vice President Dick Cheney reveals in his new memoir that in March of 2001, he wrote a secret letter of resignation, to be used in the event that he was unable to fulfill his duties. He wrote...
View ArticleThe fruits of elite immunity
(updated below - Update II [Fri.]) Less than three years ago, Dick Cheney was presiding over policies that left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead from a war of aggression, constructed a...
View ArticleThe Cheney Regency
Give the old vizier his due. Richard Cheney is the most influential and radical political leader of his times. The former vice president's new autobiography, assertively titled "In My Time," tells at...
View ArticleGuy who wants Obama to read less fiction not as concerned about Cheney’s...
Remember Tevi Troy, the Republican "former senior White House aide" who criticized Barack Obama at the National Review Online for reading well-reviewed novels instead of Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal...
View ArticleDick Cheney interviewed by Liz Cheney at “Ideas Forum”
This week, the Atlantic Media Co. held its "Washington Ideas Forum," one of many regular events held for Washington's political elite to gather and congratulate themselves for having so many ideas. The...
View ArticleCheney urges “a quick airstrike” against Iran
Once again, CNN philanthropist journalist Erin Burnett has used her show to give voice to the voiceless, to seek out the powerless to offer opinion on the day's news. She debuted her show "OutFront" in...
View ArticleTwo nasty Republicans say nice things about Newt
What does it mean that two of the nastiest men in the Republican Party are saying nice things about Newt Gingrich? On CNN Monday night Dick Cheney warned the GOP not to "underestimate" Gingrich, and...
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