Why Is Dick Cheney Silent on the Oil Spill? - Newsweek

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/10/why-haven-t-we-heard-from-dick-cheney-on-the-oil-spill-.html

When the Obama administration, or the media, or just about anybody contradicts Dick Cheney's views on national security, he is far from shy about responding. But, facing a firestorm of criticism over the oil spill, he's been notably silent.

More than national security, energy policy and the oil industry might be considered Cheney's real areas of expertise. He was chairman and CEO of oil services company Halliburton between 1995 and 2000. And, of course, he worked prominently on energy policy as vice president from 2000 to 2008.

His ears ringing with the cries of "Cheney's Katrina," a title many are striving to bestow on the gulf oil spill, one might expect the former VP to convene journalists for a speech, like he did in May last year at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute to talk about national security. That lengthy rebuttal was timed specially to coincide with a speech President Obama gave on the same topic -- a ploy calculated to get the maximum press attention. The closest we have this time is Liz Cheney, Dick's daughter, arguing with Arianna Huffington on ABC's This Week.

We wondered why. Are the claims too substantial to refute? Is Cheney so incensed that he cannot trust himself to speak? Or, conversely, is he perhaps so sanguine about the entire issue that he doesn't feel it merits comment? We reached out to Cheney, via the American Enterprise Institute, to ask. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, there was no response by the time we posted this.

[GReedDiamond]

1. It's more like "Cheney's Chernobyl,"

...as someone else (here at DU I think) pointed out some time ago.

Why is Cheney not in prison? In a cell next to Bush? In a maximum security prison/hospital for the criminally insane? For the rest of their lives?

[CanonRay]

2. What's he gonna say "I f'd up".

Yeah, right.

[Sub Atomic]

13. No, he's got more class than that.

He'll tell us all to go fuck ourselves.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Mr Cheney is so distraught about the devastating effects his

oil buddies caused...he is right now working to help clean up....

[Florida Blue]

4. I would think, based on his past behavior

That he has no feeling one way or the other and definitely does not feel any responsibility.

[RKP5637]

5. +1, Yep, that's what I think too!

[raccoon]

6. Happy to send this to Greatest! nt

[fl_dem]

7. Because he is being

Oilboarded daily in an undisclosed location. :-) (hey, a girl can dream)

[tabasco]

8. Because he skulks in the shadows and sends out his rotten spawn

to spew lies on the always available whore media.

[louis-t]

9. He's hiding. He sent his half-wit daughter out to

test the waters. She got hammered by Arianna Huffington on This Week. Don't expect to see her again for awhile. He knows his bullshit won't work now. If he shows his face, there might be questions. He has no remorse, only self-preservation in mind.

[Dr.Phool]

10. He's listening to Liz to figure out whose face to shoot.

Makin' him look bad and all.

[OrpheusSang]

11. Concrete

Perhaps something to do with the role of the concrete that
Halliburton manufactures. 

[Rhiannon12866]

12. He hasn't yet figured out how to blame this on Obama...

But he's working on it. :grr:

[Raster]

14. "Mr. Cheney*, please tell us about those top-secret energy meetings you held...

...who attended?
Mr. Cheney*, what was discussed?
Mr. Cheney*, under the Clinton administration, the regulations for oil platform safety were more stringent than today, is this a direct result of those energy meetings?
Mr. Cheney*, is it true that the invasion of Iraq was discussed by you and the attendees of said energy meetings ONE YEAR BEFORE 9/11, and that you and those attendees had already divied up Iraq's oil fields?
Again, Mr. Cheney*, who attended those top-secret energy meetings?

I think it's quite clear why we have not heard from Dick Cheney*. Quite clear.