Eugene Robinson: Old Faithful of Nonsense (Dick Cheney)

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from Truthdig:



Old Faithful of Nonsense
Posted on May 12, 2009

By Eugene Robinson


Can’t we send Dick Cheney back to Wyoming? Shouldn’t we chip in and buy him a home where the buffalo roam and there’s always room for one more crazy old coot down at the general store?

For the final act of his too-long public career, Cheney seems to have decided to become an Old Faithful of self-serving nonsense. His latest in a series of eruptions came Sunday on “Face the Nation,” when he continued to press his revisionist case for torture—and, for good measure, counseled his beloved Republican Party to marginalize itself even further from public opinion and common sense.

“It’s good to go back on the show,” Cheney told host Bob Schieffer at the beginning of the interview. “It’s nice to know that you’re still loved and are invited out in public sometimes.”

I don’t know about the love, but I do know why Cheney gets asked to appear on talk shows so regularly. Unrestrained by protocol or objective reality, he’s pretty much guaranteed to say outrageous things. He requires no prompting or coaxing. As far as he’s concerned, issues have just one side—his—and anyone who disagrees must secretly wish to deliver our nation to al-Qaida.

So when Schieffer asked if Cheney “literally” meant to say that the Obama administration has “made this country more vulnerable” to terrorist attacks by repealing Bush-era policies on torture and detention, the former vice president didn’t pause for a nanosecond. “That’s my belief,” Cheney said, “based upon the fact, Bob, that we put in place those policies after 9/11. ... It was a time of great concern, and we put in place some very good policies, and they worked, for eight years.” ..............(more)

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[KharmaTrain]

1. Gene Is Too Nice A Guy...

He destroyed Liz cheney and her defense of torture and her war criminal father by simply stating the obvious...there is NO excuse for torture, no JUSTIFICATION...it's a war crime...has been always will be. Just cause you get a toady to attempt to redefine torture, it's still torture and illegal.

The problem is what he said was drowned out by the constant harping by cheney...the typical GOOP tactic that if they don't like what's being said, they overshout. I've never seen Gene as willing to jump into a food fight but he's too nice a guy, too soft spoken to play in the mud pit. He was definitely too classy for cheney...whose one wretched assemblage of protoplasm.

[Atman]

2. Robinson is full of crap

I don't agree that the deer and the antelope would like to have Cheney back in Wyoming.
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