You can't make this up. Now Cheney is bashing Obama on the economy

[Thrill]

Does anybody care what Dick Cheney thinks anymore?
Posted: 04:00 PM ET

FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Dick Cheney is at it again. This time the former vice president is criticizing Pres. Barack Obama on the economy. Cheney tells the F-word network that the president’s expansion of the federal government into the financial sector is likely to have “devastating” long-term effects.

He says he’s “very concerned” about where the Obama administration is taking the country economically. Cheney adds that there doesn’t seem to be any kind of limits on spending — this coming from a member of the administration that more than doubled the national debt in eight years and gave $700 billion to Wall Street with virtually no questions asked.

Cheney said beyond growing deficits, he questions if the White House is redefining the relationship between government and the private sector. These comments are just the latest in a string of criticism aimed at the sitting president.

Cheney has previously questioned Mr. Obama’s national security policies, saying the president is increasing the risk of another terror attack. And he’s also been very vocal in the debate over those Bush era interrogation memos.

Obama aides say the former vice president is out of line in his role as an elder statesman; but Cheney disputes that, saying he hasn’t been personal in his criticisms and he thinks these issues are too important not to speak out.

Note to the former vice president: you and your friends had eight years to run the country… and lots of people think you botched it up pretty good. Now it’s President Obama’s turn.

Here’s my question to you: Does anybody care what Dick Cheney thinks anymore?

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/23/does-anybody-care-what-dick-cheney-thinks/

[AtomicKitten]

1. I swear if they don't prosecute those bastards my head is going to explode!!!

:mad:

[Lerkfish]

2. they are extremely worried.

[yellerpup]

3. I will want to know what Cheney thinks after he's been living in a dungeon.

Then I'll want to know, "How do you like that, a**hat?"

[Zodiak]

4. Keep digging, Dick

It's great practice for busting rocks, which you will be doing soon enough.

Does this asshole think for one minute that the American people have forgotten that the policies he advocates are what got us here in the first place?

What a dick!

[vaberella]

5. That's like a banker advising O on the economy. When they fucked up. ~sigh~ n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. "Reagan proved deficits don't matter," Dick Cheney (R-Douche). Which is it? nt

[maxsolomon]

7. Karma, start working on this Dick!

you're taking your sweet time.

[Captain Hilts]

8. He's taunting Obama. nt

[MadMaddie]

16. Yes he is but apparantly since he doesn't believe in looking

at recent historical reference those that taunted President Obama did not win whatever it is they were trying to win.

Please Dick....keep it coming..you are going to slip up..sooner or later....

[jazzjunkysue]

9. You know that part of every horror movie when they get into the final sequence

and everyone and everything is flying/slamming/slashing/bleeding/falling/crushing/collapsing/shooting/leaking/screaming
and generally not going to stop until everyone's dead?

We're not even close, yet.

This is more like the first close call that the bad guys survive, when they start to figure out the feds/FBI/CIA/Marines/Swat teams are after them, and they'd better go back to their boss for some good advice and a new plan.

Wonder how long it will take before we get the first ones to turn state's witness and start fingering each other?

[Thickasabrick]

18. I so want to see that movie and the ending..... NT

[Hellataz]

10. I'm "very concerned" that Cheney will run out of tv networks to appear on...

and we'll lose all that comedic gold that fuels some of my favorite political commentary shows.

To answer Jack's Question : No, no one cares about what Cheney thinks anymore, it's just funny to watch him think the american people have his back.

[liberalmuse]

11. If there is a god...

please strike this man dead right now.

Hmmm, it didn't work. I guess I'll remain an atheist.

[butterfly77]

12. The goes to Bush ,Cheney...

Treasury secretary Snowe and Paulson and many more..

[Olney Blue]

13. Why isn't he in Texas helping Shrub with the Freedom Institute?

[proud patriot]

14. He needs to go visit the Hague

:grr:

[Cha]

15. John King cares what dick cheney

says and so does chip reid and didn't chuck tood defend cheney when Gibbs let it be known that he didn't give a rat's ass what cheney thought?

[wroberts189]

17. WHAT? Mr "deficits don't matter" Cheney is now worried about deficits? nt

[Arkana]

19. If Dicko thinks that being more outspoken is helping his party, he's an idiot.

[badgerpup]

20. This is relevant, honest...

I used to watch people catch sharks off the end of the Santa Monica pier on nights when there was a lot of moon.
They'd bring those five-foot suckers up...and you could see the power that drove them through the water, even when they were hooked on a line, or lying on the pier.

"Get away from that thing! It can still bite!" even 45 minutes later...and right about then the shark did sort of spasm...
and everyone knows about the skin, how rough it is...like a file or a rasp.

Bet if it had been thrown back in the water it would have eventually recovered and swam off.

Dick Cheney makes me think of that shark...hooked, lying helpless on a pier, about to be carved up into steaks for somebody's dinner*...but don't underestimate the bastard.
He's still dangerous.




*shark is often sold as 'whitefish'...and is rather good, I'm told.

[tiptoe]

21. Cheney's desperate ('Obama bad for economy!...nat'l security!'). Reminder: suppressed 9/11 testimony

• Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta provided provocative testimony before the 911 Commission. He testified that he went down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the White House at about 9:20 on 9/11/01. Vice President Cheney was there and in charge.

• “During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, 'The plane is 50 miles out.' 'The plane is 30 miles out.' And when it got down to 'the plane is 10 miles out,' the young man also said to the Vice President, 'Do the orders still stand?' And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said, 'Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?'"

• What orders? Evidently there were orders NOT to scramble military jets to intercept the plane, since the plane was known for 50, 30, and 10 miles out and yet never intercepted. The commission:
      did not ask such questions,
      did not include Mineta’s testimony above in the 9/11 Commission Report (­a glaring omission, Griffin, 2005),
      and removed the video of Mineta’s testimony from the 9/11 Commission website.

• Mineta seems an honest man. The testimony of Secretary Mineta strongly motivates further questioning under oath of the principals here and of this unidentified young man.

183 (?!?!!!) waterboardings — acts of desperate expediency to elicit "confessions"??


The Torture Timeline - x


The Raw Story: Scientists find active 'super-thermite' in WTC dust — April 4, 2009


Former Head Of Star Wars Program Says Cheney Main 9/11 Suspect — April 4, 2006


"...You want some proof that the beams were thermite'd, here..."


U.S. Soldier Killed Herself -- After Refusing to Take Part in Torture - x

 

[Jennicut]

22. Dick. Its over. 8 years and out. You are not the Prez anymore (pretending to be VP).

So shut up and go back in the hole you originally crawled out of 8 years ago and take your nasty daughter with you. No one wants to see you again unless you are hauled off to jail.

[Honeycombe8]

23. Grrrrr. That gets me boiling mad. The Republicans have lost all credibility re the economy. nt

[Frank Booth]

24. I gotta admit, I'd kind of miss Dick if he had just faded into oblivion.

He cracks me up just like Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. Now that he (hopefully) holds no power, I can just laugh at his ridiculousness rather than being scared by it.

[Hutzpa]

25. Calm down folks

Cheney is trying to get into Obama's head, he is playing a deadly
game of Russian Roulette.

Keep foaming at the mouth, eventually the gun's gonna go off...

[chill_wind]

26. What if Snarl burped..

and nobody in the media reported it? What if well-meaning guys like Cafferty would just refuse to continue to make his irrelevant comments.... relevant... by republicizing them?

Man, we've seen and heard more from Snarl in the last 90 days than we have in the entire last eight years. Maybe 20.

Go back to the bunker, Cheney. Please! We'll send some officials for you when the time is right.

[Samantha]

27. I am sure this has nothing to do with the Cheney-Halliburton connection

Thinking of his deferred compensation during his vice-presidential tenure, the deferred compensation put each year into a fund which he could access upon his departure from the government, remembering that Halliburton is one of the entities that pays no U.S. income tax, has it corporate headquarters, I believe, in the Cayman Islands so that employees pay no U.S. income tax, remembering the staggering profits this Company made off the Iraqi war, contemplating the fact it has been banned from Iraq now, contemplating the U.S. Government now going after those entities which avoid paying Corporate taxes, remembering all of the Halliburton accounting scandals connected to Iraq -- I am sure these minor details have no influence whatsoever on Cheney speaking out on Obama's wading into regulation of the financial sector. It is just a myriad of coincidences.

And, of course, no one at Halliburton would request Cheney to start speaking out against the Obama administration's policies.

Sam