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Rove, Cheney Just Making History Up
 Rove, Cheney 
 Just Making 
 History Up 
FRANK RICH

Rove, Cheney Just Making History Up

Bushies' conjurings 'know few bounds'

(Newser) - The simultaneous arrival of Karl Rove's memoir and Liz Cheney's "right-wing noise machine" means the "revisionist floodgates have opened," writes Frank Rich for the New York Times , a "rewriting of history that knows few bounds." And while Rove's book better passes for fiction and Cheney's...

Liz Cheney Thrives as Dad's Attack Dog
 Liz Cheney Thrives 
 as Dad's Attack Dog 
and she'll seek office

Liz Cheney Thrives as Dad's Attack Dog

She's definitely thinking dynasty, says Karl Rove

(Newser) - Liz Cheney is hard at work on the family legacy, not just collaborating on dad's memoirs but boosting the former VP's attacks on the current administration with her own. Insiders say Liz was pivotal in convincing her father to reenter the public sphere and stand by his policies—at the...

Bush Enjoys Cheney's Attacks
 Bush Enjoys Cheney's Attacks 

Bush Enjoys Cheney's Attacks

Ex-president says he won't personally make trouble for Obama

(Newser) - George W. Bush today offered his first public endorsement of Dick Cheney’s repeated attacks on President Obama. “I’m glad Cheney is out there,” Bush declared at a reunion breakfast for administration alumni. But he said he would personally continue avoiding the spotlight. “I didn't like...

Bush Drops in on Cheney Post Heart Attack

George W. Checks up on VP in Virginia

(Newser) - George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had a bit of a reunion yesterday, more than a year after they left office and just three days after Cheney was hospitalized for his fifth heart attack. "Lookin' good," Bush said in greeting his veep. "Could be worse," Cheney...

Dick Cheney Had 'Mild Heart Attack'

Former VP doing well, in 'good spirits'

(Newser) - Dick Cheney suffered his fifth heart attack yesterday but is reportedly in good condition. Cheney went to the hospital with chest pain, and "lab testing revealed evidence of a mild heart attack," a statement from his office said. "He is feeling good and is expected to be...

Dick Cheney Hospitalized With Chest Pain

Former VP in stable condition, staff says

(Newser) - Dick Cheney is in a Washington hospital tonight after suffering from chest pains, his staff says. Doctors performed an angiogram on the former vice president—69 and with a history of heart trouble—and could administer further treatment tomorrow.

CPAC Crowd: 'Run, Cheney, Run'

But former VP says he 'ain't a-gonna do it'

(Newser) - The CPAC crowd greeted surprise visitor Dick Cheney with chants of "run, Cheney, run" today, though the former VP demurred. The raucous welcome at the conservative convention is "almost enough to make me want to run for office again," said Cheney, who showed up on stage to...

On 'Don't Ask,' Even Dick Cheney Sees the Light
On 'Don't Ask,' Even
Dick Cheney Sees the Light
EUGENE ROBINSON

On 'Don't Ask,' Even Dick Cheney Sees the Light

Ex-VP says it's time to reconsider policy

(Newser) - Opponents of repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy should realize that even Dick Cheney thinks they're stuck in the past, writes Eugene Robinson. The former veep—in a miraculous moment of sense during an interview with This Week filled with the usual fear-mongering—said it's time to reconsider...

White House Delighted to Have Cheney as Foil

Terrorism talk usually bad for Dems but good for Obama

(Newser) - Talk of terrorism usually boosts Republicans and gives Democrats fits, but the White House is more than happy to face off with Dick Cheney on the issue, as Joe Biden did yesterday. Cheney is an appealing sparring partner, James Hohmann writes on Politico : one of the most unpopular members of...

Dick Cheney on Palin in 2012: Meh
 Dick Cheney 
 on Palin in 
 2012: Meh 


TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Dick Cheney on Palin in 2012: Meh

Ex-veep dismisses would-be candidate's posturing, hasn't decided who to back yet

(Newser) - Dick Cheney took time out of a busy Biden-bashing schedule this morning to train his sights on Sarah Palin, saying he hasn't decided yet who he'll support in 2012 and that “all the prospective candidates have a lot of work to do.” On Palin's recent call for President...

Biden, Cheney Trade Punches
 Biden, Cheney 
 Trade Punches 
SUNDAY TALK SHOWS

Biden, Cheney Trade Punches

Veep, ex-veep argue over whose boss is tougher on terror

(Newser) - The current vice president and his predecessor are snarling fiercely at each other all over the Sunday talk show dial. Topic: Which administration is waging a better war on terror. Joe Biden kicked off the fireworks last night, telling Meet the Press in a taped interview that Dick Cheney in...

Biden Will Counter Cheney on Sunday Shows

Vice presidents will make separate appearances

(Newser) - It won't exactly be a face-to-face showdown, but Dick Cheney and Joe Biden will engage in a sort of vice presidential debate on the Sunday talk shows. When the White House learned that Cheney will appear on ABC's This Week—presumably to bash the Obama administration as soft on terror—...

It's Cheney's Fault Yemen's So Dangerous

Ex-VP deserves 'warm jihadi thank-you note': former ambassador

(Newser) - Dick Cheney’s attacks on President Obama over counter-terror policy are absolute hogwash, a former US ambassador writes, given that the former vice-president, who “proudly micro-managed all things Gitmo,” is personally responsible for getting terrorists back into al-Qaeda’s Yemen operation. Indeed, Marc Ginsberg says, Cheney deserves “...

Top Quotes of the '00s
 Top Quotes of the '00s 
best of the decade

Top Quotes of the '00s

'Bring 'em on' from George Bush makes the list

(Newser) - David Sirota culls the top 10 quotes of the decade that speak to the nation's shortcomings. See the full list at Salon here . A sampling:
  • "It doesn't matter." Dick Cheney, 2006, when asked about polls showing a majority of Americans opposed the Iraq war. It's a "sign
...

Dick Cheney's a Liar
 Dick Cheney's a Liar 
Eugene Robinson

Dick Cheney's a Liar

'Rottweiler in Winter' tries to use terror attack to score political points

(Newser) - It’s not even 2010, and Eugene Robinson is already breaking his resolution to ignore Dick Cheney, to treat his ramblings like “the pearls of wisdom one hears from homeless people sitting in bus shelters.” But his latest outburst against President Obama was so shrill, so full of...

Shut It, Cheney: White House
 Shut It, Cheney: White House 
UPDATED

Shut It, Cheney: White House

'Bellicose rhetoric' about war failed before, fails now: Pfeiffer

(Newser) - Dick Cheney’s “bellicose rhetoric” and “clearly untrue” claims following the Christmas terror attempt aren't sitting well at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and the new administration isn't shy about telling the ex-veep off. Echoing the sentiment—and the words, even—of a “senior Democrat” yesterday in Politico , Communications...

Cheney: Obama 'Won't Admit We're at War'
 Cheney: Obama 'Won't 
 Admit We're at War' 
TERROR-ISMS

Cheney: Obama 'Won't Admit We're at War'

President is too soft on terrorism, says former VP

(Newser) - Dick Cheney is steamed at what he perceives as President Obama’s downplaying of the Christmas air terrorism attempt. The US is “at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe,” he tells Politico , becoming the latest Republican to take up the...

Cheney Named 'Conservative of the Year'
 Cheney Named 
 'Conservative 
 of the Year' 
john bolton explains why

Cheney Named 'Conservative of the Year'

Human Events praises ex-VP for anti-Obama crusade

(Newser) - Human Events has named Dick Cheney its conservative of the year, tapping old Bush administration cohort John Bolton to sing his praises. Bolton thinks it's remarkable that Cheney, a man not running for office or lobbying, can cause such consternation in Washington. How does he do it? “The...

Grayson to Cheney: 'STFU'
 Grayson to Cheney: 'STFU' 
WATCH THE VIDEO

Grayson to Cheney: 'STFU'

Mouthy Congressman rips mouthy ex-VP

(Newser) - The man Republicans (and many Democrats) wish would just shut up and go away had some words for the man Democrats (and many Republicans) wish would do the same, in vulgar—if dated—style. Asked about Dick Cheney’s view of holding terror trials in New York, Rep. Alan Grayson...

1% Warming Chance Is Cause Enough to Act
 1% Warming Chance 
 Is Cause Enough to Act
THOMAS FRIEDMAN

1% Warming Chance Is Cause Enough to Act

'Cheney Doctrine' should apply to climate change

(Newser) - Dick Cheney once said that a 1% chance of al-Qaeda obtaining a nuke was reason enough to prepare for it, and that same logic should be applied to catastrophic global warming, writes Thomas L. Friedman. Despite "Climategate," the chances look a lot higher than 1%, he notes in...

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