Breaking News! Cheney is Alive!

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Just seen him on TV talking about how well the recovery efforts are going in the midst of one victim calling him every name in the book.

He must have finished up his Halliburton rebuilding plan with the principals involved and decided to finally come up for air.

[Hogan11]

Just seen him on TV talking about how well the recovery efforts are going in the midst of one victim calling him every name in the book.

He must have finished up his Halliburton rebuilding plan with the principals involved and decided to finally come up for air.

I missed this...was one victim really cussing him out? I bet he didn't last long Ha!

For some reason, I always though Cheney had to avoid sunlight or be turned into a pile of dust Ha!

[RaiderH8r]

I missed this...was one victim really cussing him out? I bet he didn't last long Ha!

For some reason, I always though Cheney had to avoid sunlight or be turned into a pile of dust Ha!
You're thinking of James Carville. It's a common mistake.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

I missed this...was one victim really cussing him out? I bet he didn't last long Ha!

For some reason, I always though Cheney had to avoid sunlight or be turned into a pile of dust Ha!

:) One guy was letting him have it. Cheney's people were bobbing and weaving, trying to zero in on him. Only lasted a few seconds (all they actually showed anyway) but it was pretty good while it did last!

[Hogan11]

You're thinking of James Carville. It's a common mistake.

Nah, I know he turned into a snake years ago.

[RaiderH8r]

Nah, I know he turned into a snake years ago.
Christ, you're right. He does look like Voldemort...Of course Mary is no prize pig either. Their poor kids, I hope the kids are adopted.

[Hogan11]

Christ, you're right. He does look like Voldemort...Of course Mary is no prize pig either. Their poor kids, I hope the kids are adopted.

If they take after her, they'll all have a permanent scowl that most conservatives/pro-lifers & non-smokers have....you know, that scowl like they just ate something bad.

If they take after him.....well, welcome to reptileland.

The thought of it is a bit unsettling....some people just shouldn't even think about having kids.

[Rigs11]

If they take after her, they'll all have a permanent scowl that most conservatives/pro-lifers & non-smokers have....you know, that scowl like they just ate something bad.

If they take after him.....well, welcome to reptileland.

The thought of it is a bit unsettling....some people just shouldn't even think about having kids.

Cheney reminds me of one of those aliens from that show from the 80's. I think it was called "V". Everytime I see him I expect his wig to split and the reptilian to come out.

[Rigs11]

Cheney reminds me of one of those aliens from that show from the 80's. I think it was called "V". Everytime I see him I expect his wig to split and the reptilian to come out.


Cheney, Gonzales tour disaster area
Vice president sees 'very impressive' relief effort

GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) -- Walking a hurricane-riddled street, Vice President Dick Cheney declared Thursday that much progress is being made in a disaster relief effort he termed "very impressive."

While Cheney spoke, a passer-by hurled an expletive at the vice president. "First time I've heard it," Cheney said, when asked if he was hearing a lot of such sentiments.

Most of the people Cheney met with were friendly. Lynne Lofton, whose house further down the street was completely destroyed, was an exception.

"I think this media opportunity today is a terrible waste of time and taxpayer money," she said. "They've picked a nice neighborhood where people have insurance and most are Republicans

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/08/Katrina.cheney.ap/index.html

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

He must have finished up his Halliburton rebuilding plan with the principals involved and decided to finally come up for air.

Yep.

Another fake display of concern for the welfare of the American people after a disaster - just like the "counterterrorism task force" for which GoFyourself was responsible before 9/11.

[Rigs11]

A Very, Very Good Idea
By DOUG THOMPSON
Sep 9, 2005, 06:37

Ben Marble, a Gulfport resident who says he’s a doctor, had the guts to wade into Vice President Dick Cheney’s carefully-staged photo op Thursday and say what many residents of the Gulf Coast wanted to say to the politicians who sat on their butts while the people of Mississippi and Louisiana lay dead and dying.

“Go **** yourself Mr. Cheney,” Marble screamed just off camera as the event played out live on CNN. “Go **** yourself you asshole!”

Secret Service agents subdued Marble and CNN yanked the video off its web site but copies of it float around the Internet and Marble, who’s homeless after Katrina destroyed his Gulfport home, is offering a copy for sale on EBay.

Republicans, of course, jumped in with carefully-crafted indignation over Marble’s “inappropriate remarks” to Cheney, forgetting the Vice President used the same words to tell off a Senator just last year.

Cheney offered his outburst of obscenity because that Senator had the gall to question his relationship with scandal-scarred Halliburton, the company he used to run and that’s now ripping off taxpayers in Iraq. All Marble had to be upset about was loss of his home, death of close friends and family and destruction of the city he loved.

Yet Marble, who also plays with punk rock bands in the Gulfport area, could become the symbol of frustration felt not only by residents of the hard hit area but every American who recoils in shock and anger at the government’s lackluster and uncompassionate response to the horror, death and destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Jefferson Parish president Aaron Broussard cried without shame on national television this week, saying the federal “bureaucracy has committed murder here in the Greater New Orleans area.”

Newscasters abandoned their traditionally-stoic on screen personas and openly challenged attempts by politicians to spin the event.

“Oh come on Senator, let’s forget the hype and talk about the people dying here in the streets,” CNN’s Anderson Cooper said to Senator Mary Landrieu after she recited a canned political speech about “how proud I am of the way Congress has responded to this tragedy.”

On NBC’s Meet the Press, host Tim Russert could not conceal his anger when he opened an interview with incompetent Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff with a curt “are you, or anybody who reports to you, considering resignation?”

Even those who make their living coming up with excuses for Bush couldn’t keep a straight face. When Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly offered the usual administration spin, pseudo-journalist Geraldo Rivera shot back with: “This is Dante’s Inferno, Bill. There is no way to sugarcoat it. This is the worst thing I’ve seen in a civilized nation.”

And it is. The debacle is a monumental failure of government at all levels, an inability to serve the citizens when that service is most needed.

Even right-wing Republican firebrand Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House who masterminded the GOP takeover of Congress, recognizes this in memos he recently sent to fellow party members.

“For the last week the federal government and its state and local counterparts have consistently been behind the curve,” Gingrich said in a tartly-worded missive to Republicans. "The American people overwhelmingly know that the current situation is totally unacceptable. It is a mistake to get trapped into defending the systems and processes which clearly failed.”

Gingrich suggests it is time to stop the useless argument about “values” in government and politics and realize that those elected to serve the people are in the business of delivering services to the people.

“We're not in a values fight now but over whether the system is working,” Gingrich told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. “The issue is delivery.”

When it came time to deliver to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina, government failed.

And when our government fails to deliver, it should, as Dr. Ben Marble so aptly suggested to Vice President Dick Cheney, prove it can also fail at the difficult anatomical act of self-intercourse.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7357.shtml

[bendog]

I dunno about chertoff. Yeah political appiontee, and he's a judge NOT a emergency management guy. Funny thing is that this whole homeland security thing got started when Lieberman proposed something smaller. If he's for something, I'm thinking its not good. But bushii saw it was gonna happen, so he did the homeland thing only bigger. Enced up with a bunch of pork spending and nothing to show for it, imo. Prolly no way to pull the plug.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Hurricane Halliburton

Having finished the search for a luxury vacation home on the eastern shore of Maryland – which preoccupied him during the critical initial days of what is being called the worst natural disaster in American history – Vice President Dick Cheney jetted south late last week to inspect the damage.

With the wheels rolling for the purchase of his own $2.9 million home on the east coast, the Cheney was more or less ready to commiserate with the folks who had lost their homes on the Gulf Coast. Unfortunately, not all of the locals were prepared to thank the vice president for finally showing up.

Cheney was greeted in Gulfport, Mississippi, by a survivor of the disaster who – recalling the veep's blunt salutation for Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy during a visit to Capitol Hill last year – repeatedly shouted: "Go f--- yourself, Mr Cheney."

After Secret Service agents dragged the local man away, Cheney was asked by a reporter: "Are you getting a lot of that Mr. Vice President?"

Cheney answered: "First time I've heard it."

Continued: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=21497

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

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