He's rising from the crypt and bringing his spawn with him.

[Cleita]

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/01/dick-cheney-and-daughter-push-hawkish-stances-for-g-o-p-hopefuls/

The rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East has pushed Republicans toward embracing a more interventionist foreign policy, and now one prominent Republican family wants to be sure the party stays that way.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney are planning to make their presence felt in the 2016 presidential campaign through their advocacy group, Alliance for a Strong America.

The organization is planning online and perhaps television ads pushing a muscular line on national security, according to a Republican strategist familiar with the group’s planning. The initiative may also pay for polling to help nudge Republican candidates toward hawkish stances in the primary season.

What is not clear, though, is whether the Cheneys intend to train their fire on Hillary Rodham Clinton or whether they plan to target Senator Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning Kentuckian who has recently sought to bolster his White House campaign by trying to block a renewal of parts of the Patriot Act.

Mr. Cheney criticized Mr. Paul as “an isolationist” in an interview published online Sunday in The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the Alliance for a Strong America’s plans.

more at link.

Apparently, they are doing public appearances, with Darth Cheney claiming only he knows good foreign policy. I suppose the clusterfuck that is the Middle East today is what he's bragging about? Oh, I wish someone brave arrests him for war crimes at one of these appearances.

[muntrv]

1. Hey Cheneys! Shut up and enlist!

[xfundy]

2. YUK.

[Joe the Revelator]

3. Still pisses me off that this guy got a heart transplant, when so many more deserving people die on

the waiting list. With that said, he looks pretty damn healthy these days.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Hell, they still haven't fixed all the ruts in the streets between the White House and Langley...

...from all his trips over there to distort the Iraq intel.

[malaise]

5. Croak you war criminal of a dick

just do the planet a favor and croak!

[Mira]

20. ...

There was a man who, everyday, would buy a newspaper on the way to
work, glance at the headline, and hand it back to the newsboy. Day
after day the man would go through this routine. Finally the newsboy
could not stand it and he asked the man, "Why do you always buy
a paper and only look at the front page before discarding it?"

The man replied, "I am only interested in the obituaries."

"But they are on page 21. You never even unfold the newspaper."

"Young man," he said, "the son of a bitch I'm looking for will be
on the front page."

[malaise]

21. You know how much I love that

I'll never forget it - it's perfect for the war criminal of a dick.

[Mira]

22. If I type in the search line:

"joke for when Cheney dies" - it pops right up.
I think I made you smile.

[malaise]

23. You sure did

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Uncle Dick

wants your sons and daughters as cannon fodder.

[AtomicKitten]

7. They are truly despicable people.

[democrank]

8. Lot of chest-beating war talk coming from someone with five deferments.

Hey Dick....go visit the Vietnam War memorial, then do some volunteer work at Walter Reed.

[Zorra]

9. Dick looks ill, his supply of human blood must be running low.

He's pushing for war because he needs to kill and feed again.

Not on our watch

[NV Whino]

10. OMG, they're going to push Liz for Veep.

Bet you.

[BrotherIvan]

11. Die Already!

[UTUSN]

12. R#6 & K for, I like the 2nd topic in the link, voting rights, if only Hispanics would turn out

**********QUOTE****

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s top campaign lawyer has filed a second voter-access lawsuit accusing a Republican-led state of trying to suppress the vote — this time in Wisconsin, home to Scott Walker, the governor and likely Republican 2016 presidential candidate.

Marc Elias, the general counsel for the Clinton campaign and an election law expert, filed the suit in federal court on Friday. It was reported in the blog of Rick Hasen, an election law expert who works at the University of California, Irvine.

“This lawsuit concerns the most fundamental of rights guaranteed citizens in our representative democracy — the right to vote,” the complaint states, then refers to a curtailing of early voting in the state, among other changes that affect minority voters and other groups. “That right has been under attack in Wisconsin since Republicans gained control of the governor’s office and both houses of the State Legislature in the 2010 election.”

Mrs. Clinton’s aides said the suit was not filed on behalf of the campaign, but they offered their support for it.

“We are aware of it and strongly support its goal of ensuring the right to vote is not unduly burdened,” Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said in a statement.

Mr. Elias filed a similar lawsuit in Ohio recently, accusing the state of trying to suppress the votes of traditional Democratic constituencies like blacks, Hispanics ...

*********UNQUOTE*******

[kairos12]

13. The Walking Who Makes Others Dead with his undending drumbeat for war.

[Major Hogwash]

14. Release the Kraken!!!

That'll show 'em!

[bullwinkle428]

15. That vulture Liz looks ready to swoop down from a high treetop upon the

next unsuspecting victim so that they may provide the next "donor" heart for Veep-al-ze-bub.

[Tanuki]

16. Charles Pierce once referred to them as

"the Manson family of American geopolitics."

[pinboy3niner]

19. Nailed it. :)

[Caspian Morgan]

17. Judgung from all the proxy wars the US currently has going on,

I would say he and his cronies never left.

[Jefferson23]

18. The Death Squad: Dick Cheney Goes Dark: A Family Network of (c)(4) Groups ( OpenSecrets )

July 2, 2014

In the years since he left office, former President George W. Bush has mostly stayed out of the public eye, happier to talk about what he’d do with a canvas than what the U.S. should do in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, on the other hand, has been more than willing to voice his displeasure with the Obama administration’s handling of challenges abroad. In 2009, not even a year into President Obama tenure, Dick Cheney accused him of “dithering” over sending more troops to Afghanistan, saying Obama “seems afraid” to make a decision. In 2012, Cheney called Obama “one of our weakest presidents.”

And he’s back now — along with his daughter Liz and a host of other former Bush hands — to herald the “collapse of the Obama doctrine.”

This time, though, he’s planted himself on the scene in a more permanent way. Dick and Liz Cheney announced in June the creation of a new 501(c)(4) social welfare group aimed at “reversing” president Obama’s foreign policy agenda.

This new group, called the Alliance for a Strong America, is the latest in a long line of sometimes controversial nonprofits run by the Cheneys.


According to a press release, the Alliance for a Strong America “will advocate for a restoration of American strength and power.” In a video accompanying the release, the former veep laments that “the policies of the last six years have left America diminished and weakened. Our enemies no longer fear us. Our allies no longer trust us.”

Standing with her father, Liz Cheney — herself a former high-level State Department official and, more recently, failed Senate candidate in Wyoming — warns that “America’s security depends upon our ability to reverse President Obama’s policies.”

It’s still unclear how exactly ASA will carry out its mission and, in particular, whether that will include running ads aimed at influencing the outcomes of elections. The primary purpose of social welfare groups like ASA — which don’t have to disclose their donors to the public — is not supposed to be political. However, several court decisions and disarray at the IRS have created openings for these groups to pour unprecedented amounts of money into elections without telling voters who is funding the advocacy.

Whatever uncertainty there is about how the Cheneys will deploy ASA, though, the family has years of experience using 501(c)(4)s as megaphones.

Alliance, Beta Version

In 2009, Cheney joined Iraq War proponent Bill Kristol and Debra Burlingame — the sister of an American Airlines pilot who was killed in the 9/11 attacks — to form a group called Keep America Safe.

That group’s mission was substantively identical to what the Alliance now aims to accomplish. For example, Dick Cheney’s statement about keeping the trust of U.S. allies is essentially the same as the wording in Keep America Safe’s proclamation that “the world is a safer place when America is trusted by our allies and feared and respected by our enemies.” The world painted by both groups is a “dangerous” one where “threats to America’s national security are on the rise,” and we must continue to fight “for a strong American military.”

Keep America Safe’s ads criticizing Obama’s foreign policy agenda bore many of the hallmarks of political attack ads: dramatic music, quotes taken out of context, and a call for viewers to “tell” a politician to pursue a certain policy.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/07/dick-cheney-goes-dark-a-family-network-of-c4-groups/

[KoKo]

24. ....!