Cheney splits with Bush over gay marriage issue

[quaoar]

CNN reported this a short while ago. Cheney was speaking somewhere and had his daughter Mary with him and said that he disagrees with Bush about the issue but that the president gets to make the final call on it.

[Skittles]

1. as usual

republicans only see the light when it affects THEM.

[calico1]

3. Maybe Mary said she wouldn't campaign for him

or worse--endorse Kerry, unless he said something. LOL.

[Tarheelhombre]

14. I said a Flip, Flop, A Flippity Flopp, Flip Flop you don't stop......

[napi21]

2. Oh great! Cheney had bad #'s before, now they'll be worse...

at least with the base! Maybe they'll rub off on shrub!

[Gman]

4. Its perfect

They can have it both ways.

[Fridays Child]

5. Oh, really? The president gets to make the final call on it?

These bastards really do believe that they're running a dictatorship.

[gratuitous]

6. "The president gets to make the final call"?

Since when? Everything I've seen out of this corrupt administration has been blamed on low level staffers, subjunior officers, people who happened to be in the room at the time. Stupidhead is never the one who steps up to take responsibility for something his cronies do.

Odd though, that Crashcart would sell his own daughter down the river for political gain. Well, maybe not so odd. I was presuming that he had the capacity for love, and I'm not sure that's a valid presumption.

[ItsMyParty]

7. Here's how the game works:

Take a look at this clown act and how they are trying to dupe people with the crap they have made up in the last couple months:

1. Bush - anti gay marriage; Cheney - okay with it

2. Bush - anti-abortion; Laura-pro choice

3. Jen is going to work in Harlem with school kids; Barb is going to work in Africa to cure Aids. (Then the news release that this will be AFTER the campaign because they have to help Daddy for awhile----looks like aids will just have to wait to be cured by Wonder-Barb).

4. Bush told audience few days ago he's for imported drugs (added a little aside that he worries about their safety; in other words "Read My Lips": you aren't going to get any cheap drugs, assholes, 'cause I'm in bed with the drug companies).

Do you see the way they play it?? And the media never challenges and says "well that's certainly a last minute piece of shit in order to win an election". And the dumb buy another bucket full of the swill...

[Jacobin]

8. Ah yes, the compassionate fascist

Only compassionate when an issue affects a member of his immediate family.

He loves his daughter, because her birth got him his sixth deferment from the draft and kept him out of Nam

[bryant69]

9. I'd like to see Edwards ask him about this

at the debates.

Bryant
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[quaoar]

10. This is trying to have it both ways

Cheney says he favors decisions about gay marriage being left up to the states, but he says it's the president's call so there's nothing else to say about it.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Trying to have it both ways....

Where have I seen that before?

:eyes:

[onenote]

12. and if there had been a tie vote in the senate

on the ban gay marriage amendment, is there any doubt as to how would ol' Dickie boy would have voted? What a pile of crap he is.

onenote

[Francine Frensky]

13. Well now, isn't that convenient???

Since it's not up to him, he's all for it. But of course, he doesn't care that Rove is using it as part of his "divide and conquer" reelection campaign.

Is there one honest, decent republican out there??

[quaoar]

15. OK, here's a link

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6059652

DAVENPORT, Iowa (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney said on Tuesday that he does not personally support a constitutional amendment against gay marriage but accepts President Bush's decision to pursue such a ban as administration policy.
Resorting to unusually expansive language to address an emotional campaign issue that has proved divisive for Republicans, Cheney said he believes individual states rather than the federal government should decide whether to sanction marriage between homosexuals.

"My general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want," Cheney, 63, said in response to a question at a campaign "town hall" meeting in Davenport, Iowa.

Cheney, whose daughter Mary is a lesbian and works for the Bush-Cheney campaign, said during the 2000 presidential race that be held homosexual marriage to be a state issue.

But he has been circumspect about gay marriage in the current election year, while Bush has appealed to social conservatives by backing congressional efforts to enact a constitutional ban.

"I made clear four years ago ... that my view was that's (probably) a matter for the states to decide," he added. "But the president makes basic policy for the administration. And he's made it clear that he does in fact support a constitutional amendment on this issue."