Cheney Heads To Hospital

Irregular Heartbeat is the reason.

More info as it becomes available.

Got 'Em

I don't know if this will spark a censure or impeachment movement in Congress, but it's definitely not what this administration needs right now.

At this point, does it really matter...there's only 13 months, 29 days left of this administration

Cheney: Significant Progress Ahead

And you can count on that.

Remember how right he was about the insurgency being in the "last throes" back in 2004.

Acting President Cheney

I'm always a little concern when the wannabe-dictator Dick Cheney has to act as leader of the free world for a few minutes.

If you want a reason why I don't support impeachment, President Cheney is it.

Absolutely Brillant

Washington, D.C. House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel issued the following statement regarding his amendment to cut funding for the Office of the Vice President from the bill that funds the executive branch. The legislation --the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill -- will be considered on the floor of the House of Representatives next week.

"The Vice President has a choice to make. If he believes his legal case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive branch. However, if he demands executive branch funding he cannot ignore executive branch rules. At the very least, the Vice President should be consistent. This amendment will ensure that the Vice President's funding is consistent with his legal arguments. I have worked closely with my colleagues on this amendment and will continue to pursue this measure in the coming days."

When people act like children, you treat them like children

Bush: I Decide

The decider is deciding again;

"This is a little bit of a nonissue," [White House spokeswoman Dana] Perino said at a briefing dominated by the issue. Cheney is not subject to the executive order, she said, "because the president gets to decide whether or not he should be treated separately, and he's decided that he should."

oh how f%#$&ing convenient. Where's the checks and balances there?

Cheney: His Own Entity

His Royal Majesty Lord Dick Cheney won't listen to Congress or the people, and he won't even listen to the President either.

After throwing executive privlidge in the face of Congress, the Vice President decided that when the head of the executive branch makes the rules, he no longer has executive privlidge, he has Cheney privlidge.

Apparently our government now has four branches; Executive, Legislative, Judicial and Dick Cheney.

Battling Over Iran

Ok, somebody has to go to sit this crazy loon down and tell him straight;

She's the Secretary of State. She's the one who gives the president advice on how to solve problems with other countries so we don't end up sending thousands of Americans to die over something that could've been solved by something simple.

You...are the guy who breaks ties in the Senate.

WY-Sen: The Second Lady Senator?

God, am I thankful Wyoming has a Democratic governor.

Ok, I know what you're going to say, you're going to bring up Hillary Clinton. Yes, but she was a Senator for only 18 days while her husband was President. With Dick Cheney teetering on the verge of Congressional investigation, having his wife in the US Senate is just plain nepotism. If she wants to run in 2008, then that's fine and perhaps the the Wyoming GOP should have Governor Freudenthal appoint someone who won't run in 2008 so she can, but right now, it's a conflict of interest if you ask me.

Oh, and by the way, at least Hillary RAN in an election and didn't try to get appointed after the previous guy died. Is Lynne afraid of running and loosing? She shouldn't be, this is the state that reelection crazy Barbara Cubin after she threaten to slap a disabled guy.

Anyway, the other, more LIKELY candidates for Craig Thomas' seat include former Wyoming House Speaker Randall Luthi , former State Treasurer Cynthia Lummis, lawyer Tom Sansonetti, Wyoming US Attorney Matt Meade (who just quit btw,) State Senator John Barrasso (R-Casper), and State Rep. Colin Simpson (R-Cody) who is the son of former Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson.

Libby Goes To Jail

Scooter Libby, the former cheif of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, convincted in March of two counts of perjury, one count of obstructing justice in a grand jury investigation, and one of the two counts of making false statements to federal investigators, will spent the next 30 months in jail.

I still think he's the fall guy and now he will be in the jail for as long as the people he fell for are in power.

Pathetic.

Cheney's Trip To West Point

Dick Cheney didn't get too political with his speech at the commencement at West Point today, but he did bring up the truth that the "terrorists" massed in Iraq, making it the central front in the "war on terrorism."

Of course he left out the fact they weren't there before we invaded.

Protestors weren't allowed on campus grounds, federal judges barred them from protesting. Personally, I tend to agree. I'm all for protesting, but not at someone's graduation. Instead, they gathered in a nearby village where they staged their anti-war protest.

A counterprotest was also present, with one pro-war demostrating saying this;

“People should support the troops and they’re going to support the enemy with their protest,” said Jim Dwyer, who was standing with a group called a “Gathering of Eagles” that had hoisted a large American flag on a crane.

Fascism is alive and well in America.

Cheney: Americans Want Terrorists To Win

"I think they have to be responsible for the consequences of the policy recommendations they make. If, in fact, they advocate complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, then they are, to some extent, accountable for what would happen when that policy [is] followed, what happens inside Iraq, what kind of encouragement that might give to al-Qaida."

No, he's not talking about the Democrats or anti-war Republicans. He's talking about the 65% of Americans who want to withdraw from Iraq at some point and have thus elected politicians who share their "put and end to this" view.

Yes, cause nobody is more Anti-American than the Americans themselves. I have two words for the Vice President; shut up.

Cheney: Lets Start Another War YAY!

As if we're not having enough problems already, Cheney opened the floodgates and threatened another war in Iran

"We'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region,"

with others...he means Israel, that's about it. I'm not sure how many others want to commit themselves to another George W. Bush war. Let's ask Prime Minister-to-be Gordon Brown what he thinks. Isn't there an Australian election coming up?

Yeah, so Israel

Cheney In Iraq

To promote reconciliation among rival factions.

Because, you know, there's nobody who can unify a country like Dick "Disagreement with me is treason" Cheney

Cheney Sprews Crap, Kills Bird

When you can't shoot them, just hit them with a plane I guess.

After slaughtering a bird with his place, he gave his weekly crap sprewing;

Same stuff we've heard over and over, Democrats want to loose...if we set a date for withdrawal, our enemies would just wait...blah blah blah blah blah, because, apparently, it will take more than a year to do something he said would take "weeks, not months."

Really, who shows up to this guy's speeches anymore?

Iraq: An Easter Reflection

As we celebrated our Easter (or Passover for some,) here in the states, another deadly weekend unfolded in Iraq. A truck bomb south of Baghdad killed 18, and at least 47 Iraqis were killed or found dead…today. 10 US soldiers died this weekend and to top it all off, a dire announcement from Muqtada-al-Sadr;

"You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don't walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy,"

I ask you now, how, pray, can a democracy form, function and stabilize in a country where this man is listened to more than the Prime Minister? Imagine a situation where people take orders from Fred Phelps and not the President, Congress or Governors. That is what we have in Iraq; a population who wishes for a theocracy, not a democracy.

I am reminded of when this war started. I was a college student, working as Assistant News Director of my college radio station. I was in charge of producing the then 15 minute afternoon news show. We gathered most of our news using the Associated Press. We had an AP computer on site. Each news story on the AP is named by a slug, or a short one or two word label. For example, a story having to do with President Bush responded to Hurricane Katrina might be labeled BUSH-KATRINA, or one about Britney Spears in rehab may be SPEARS-REHAB. From the day we invaded Iraq in 2003 until the my last day at WRHU in May, 2006, straight until I went back to be a special on-air guest on Election Night last year, the AP computer had about 15 stories a day with the slug IRAQ. (IRAQ-BOMBING, IRAQ-PROTESTS, IRAQ-ISRAEL, etc.) I told everyone around me in 2003 that we would be seeing Iraq plastered all over this computer until our kids are pulling copy from it. Sadly, I'm beginning to think that may be true. What else is there to accomplish there? We got rid of Saddam and the country never had weapons of mass destruction, so essentially we've accomplished what we went there to achieve.

Now, the argument is, we have to fight terrorism there; terrorists who showed up in the country to TAKE ADVANTAGE of the power vacuum that was created by overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Terrorism exists there because of the failed bungled war policy of this administration, despite what Dick Cheney may say. All I really want to see first is for President Bush to ADMIT he made the situation worse than it was before.

Iraq is never going to be a Jeffersonian Democracy, not when people like al-Sadr are calling the shots. It is time for us to let the Iraqi people decide what government works for them. If they want to kill each other, let them kill each other. Let Iran waste their time intervening in a civil war. Maybe they'll spend so much of their resources funding the Shiite militias; they won't have time or money to build a nuke.

The Iraqis may not create a government we hoped for them, but I think it was naïve for us to believe that a secular democracy like ours would ever form in a country that sits in a region where piety trumps freedom and human rights. We are paying for our naivety and lack of knowledge of the outside world.

In the meantime, while you read this, IRAQ popped up at the AP computer at WRHU in Hempstead, New York about four times.

Delusional Dick

A Pentagon report on Thursday confirms that Al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein's' government had no links before the U.S. led invasion.

Somehow Vice President Cheney missed that memo. Delusional Dick is once again standing by his "fact" that Saddam and Al-Qaida are linked;

Sure Dick, allow me to excuse myself which I mockingly twirl my finger around my temple for a few seconds.

If there was any reason to not impeach the president, it is because this man would take his place. Quite frankly, I'd rather deal with Bush. This man is just plain nuts.

It's funny, Rosie O'Donnell has a conspiracy theory, everyone wants her fired, this man has a conspiracy theory, he's Vice President...only in America.

Cheney also slammed Pelosi's trip to Syria and did it on the last bully pulpit he last left...the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Cheney's Weekly Sprewing Of Crap

In this week's edition of "Words from the Delusional Vice President," our friend Dick runs to the safety of Birmingham, Alabama to once again remind the country that the only way to be patriotic is to be like him.

Let me respond to him;

"It's time the self-appointed strategists on Capitol Hill understood a very simple concept: You cannot win a war if you tell the enemy you're going to quit."

And you cannot win a war when your friend is actually your enemy, oh and by the way, I thought the Mission was Accomplished.

"We expect the House and the Senate to meet the needs of our military on time, in full, and with no strings attached."

WE expect the President to tell the Iraqi government to take care of their own goddamn country, if he doesn't, then he's not getting support from me. Dick, Congress doesn't work for you, they work for me...and the rest of the country, 60% of whom WANT OUT OF IRAQ.

When a country has lost faith in their commander-in-chief, they turn to new leadership. That, Dick, is why we elected a new Congress. We would've thrown your ass back to Wyoming last November if we could, but you're lucky, you got reelected right under the wire.

Seriously, who listens to this guy anymore?

Cheney's Weekly Sprewing Of Crap

Yes, Dick Cheney is at it again...once again believing he is the most American, most Patriotic of all people

This time he's not attack people, or a party, or even a certain politician...he's attacking the entire legislative branch...the entire branch of government doesn't support the troops.

According to him;

Cheney called it a myth that "one can support the troops without giving them the tools and reinforcements they need to carry out their mission."

And you can only do that by following HIS orders. What HE believes is the final say on what the troops need. Dick, in case you missed it, the bill does give the troops the tools and reinforcements they need to carry out...whatever it is you want them to carry out. All it does is tell the president he has a year or so to carry it out

And quite frankly, they're being generous...you said in 2003, this would take "weeks, not months." Well now you got months, so get working.

Cheney's Company; Screw You America

Halliburton is moving to Dubai...a slap in the face of every American.

I'm not sorry to see them go and I wish they would take their former CEO with them, but for a company to gets millions in no-bid contracts from the US Government to up and leave and go to a country that supported the Taliban until we invaded and has knowingly supported terrorism a nuclear Iran is to step on our faces.

Meanwhile, Dick Cheney continues to spew venom about how the Democrats hate the troops and how they want America to lose, while Mr. Patriot watches his former company up and tell America...Screw You, we're going to Dubai.

Whether or not it's tax related, it's just dick