Poor Dick Cheney, not his best day

[G_j]

ahhh poor Dickie.. :-(

www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0207-01.htm

Published on Saturday, February 7, 2004 by the Asia Times

The Day Cheney was Rocked to the Core
by Jim Lobe

 WASHINGTON - If United States Vice President Dick Cheney was hoping that the cold, crisp air of Davos and his private audience with Pope John Paul II late last month would revive his spirits, as well as  his standing in the polls, he must be deeply disappointed.

Since returning home, he has faced a seemingly unrelenting succession of disclosures and attacks that appear to get worse with each passing day. What the albatross was to the ancient mariner, Cheney is fast becoming to George W Bush's re-election chances.

Just consider what happened to Cheney Thursday: the early morning edition of the Wall Street Journal ran an article - first reported by Newsweek - on how Justice Department investigators had asked Halliburton Company for documents relating to US$180 million in allegedly illegal payments by a consortium of companies, including Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, in connection with the construction of a big natural-gas plant in Nigeria in the late 1990s, while Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive officer.

When the Los Angeles Times hit the news stands a couple of hours later, Cheney was right there on the front page with the headline: "Scalia was Cheney Hunt Trip Guest; Ethics Concern Grows." Antonin Scalia is a Supreme Court Justice who was Cheney's guest on a recent and rather costly (to the taxpayer) bird-hunting trip to Louisiana, and who also will soon hear a major case on government secrecy in which the vice president is the defendant.
...more.. (his day wasn't over yet)

[indepat]

1. Don't cry for Cheney just yet

[emanymton]

2. Let Us Not Get Our Hopes Up

Cheney is a player. He will not go down without a _real_ fight.

After all Cheney has done to seaze power, he will do ANYTHING to keep it. Niccolo Machiavelli could have learned from Cheney. The "God Father" will use power to stop his opponents; so will Cheney.

[G_j]

4. no real hopes to get up here..

but if he as an aggravating day thats fine with me.

[Toots]

3. They are already gearing up for McCain to replace Cheney.

McCain will leave his position on the newly formed Commission on Intelligence and take his place next to Bush* to provide military experience and integrity to the ticket. It won't be any loss to the Commission as McCain has already issued a public statement that the Administration didn't misuse or make up any intelligence so the matter is solved. It is going to be a Ticket to be reckoned with. A lot of people have been deceived by McCain and even some "Democrats" here at DU say they would vote for McCain. I know there are many that say this can never happen, that McCain "hates" Bush* but the truth of the matter is none of them have any scruples or morals either. Power is the only thing that matters to them and McCain will be a heartbeat away from the position he covets more than anything on earth. Brace yourselves for it because it is cast.

[indepat]

5. Has McCain already compromised any remaining integrity by

statements recently made which suggest he will be part of the whitewash?

[Toots]

6. McCain compromised his integrity over the Confederate flag issue

As far as I'm concerned. He did two 180s in a row over that issue and the Bob Jones University. Within the space of one week he told three seperate stories. After that I haven't paid much attention to him other than the fact that many Americans think his shit doesn't stink.

[G_j]

7. do you have some sort of link

for the McCain VP speculation?

[hang a left]

8. Very interesting, I think that you are probably right.

I know Cheney is a toasted cheese sandwich, you can see them lining him up for the kill. Skewing the intelligence, leading the administration to war, outing of Plame, energy meeting documents, war profiteering, Halliburton, the list goes on. He will be the sacraficial lamb, and a big fat one at that. Poor little dumbya, duped by his veep. I have been wondering for a time now, who could they possibly be considering for the slot. Guliani....no that won't work. Delay....no, too much dirty politics. Frist.....noone even knows who he is. Mc Cain has passed through my head, popular, well liked, appeals to moderates, but then he was named to the commission in charge of investigating prewar intelligence. I think you get the big ding ding ding, winner bell.

If that won't raise stupid as* in the polls or make it close enough to steal, then they will either have Bush assasignated or... let the other chosen one take the reigns.

Only time will tell.

[Ridley Park 704]

9. Bush's ace in the hole would be dumping Cheney

If he does that and picks McCain or a "Popular" republican I think we're up shit's creek.

No matter how good any Democrat fares in a poll against *, if Big Time is let go, we've got a real problem.

I've thought for months that it's foolish at this time for Democrats to try and drum Cheney off the ticket. We just don't need a McCain to seal Arizona, which may go Democrat otherwise, or a Rick Santorum to seal Penna.

Dick is fine right where he is until * loses.