The Cheney presidency (Boston Globe Dribble)

Boston Globe ^ | August 26, 2006 | Robert Kuttner

[GOPsterinMA]

The Cheney presidency By Robert Kuttner | August 26, 2006 GEORGE W. BUSH has been faulted in some quarters for taking an extended vacation while the Middle East festers. It doesn't much matter; the man running the country is Vice President Dick Cheney. Alerts When historians look back on the multiple assaults on our constitutional system of government in this era, Cheney's unprecedented role will come in for overdue notice. Cheney's shotgun mishap, when he accidentally sprayed his host with birdshot, has gotten more media attention than has his ...p>

[GOPsterinMA]

This hit piece stinks of Democratic failure and panic.

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[stylin19a]

If this is true, shouldn't Helen Thomas be um...gone ?

[NonValueAdded]

I wonder if this is a subtle warning to the democRATs that if they plan to impeach GWB should they (Heaven forbid) gain the majority, that they will yield up President Cheney. Watch for the assault on the Veep to precede the assault on the President as visions of Speaker Pilosi dance in their heads.

[mo]

I wish Cheney would run in '08.......they'd have brown shorts up and down the East Coast!!!!

[Berosus]

Why not? A few weeks ago, Ann Coulter said she hopes George W. is impeached, so we'll get a president who's a real conservative!

[johnny7]

...they'd have brown shorts up and down the East Coast!!!!

Or at least... skid-marks.

[Disturbin]

"many commentators observed that Bush was the fellow with whom you would rather have a beer"

Except for the fact that he doesn't drink!

So let me get this straight: the press hates everything Bush has ever done, he's the most evil person ever, but wait ... we realize he's just a puppet, and now we're directing all of our anger at Cheney et al?

[Disturbin]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if Cheney's ill health was just a smoke screen? And the reason we haven't seen too many leaders at the top of the GOP is because Cheney is planning to grab the GOP nomination in 2008?

Talk about panic -- the dems would drop dead of it.

[MNJohnnie]

Robert Kuttner. That this rabid hysteric font of unwashed hate speech still has a job is proof the Globe is nothing but a sad sick paradoy of a serious new organization.

Amazing how the Leftists, and RINOS, have vapors when an Ann Coulter says really minor things but day in and day out dozens and doze of Kuttner types spew their hate speech from the Left all over the country and not a word from the usual "moderates".

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Watch for the assault on the Veep to precede the assault on the President as visions of Speaker Pilosi dance in their heads."

Nope, you always take down the driver before the passenger. SOP.

They will go after Cheney first. They will try it once again with Scooter Libby and Rove. If they can get Cheney, they will then try to get a RINO as the VP. Then they will go after Bush.

Sort of Nixonian.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"I wish Cheney would run in '08.......they'd have brown shorts up and down the East Coast!!!!"

No, they will have a code brown alert if Rumsfeld decided to run for POTUS.

[sinkspur]

A few weeks ago, Ann Coulter said she hopes George W. is impeached, so we'll get a president who's a real conservative!

And yet some on this site remain enamored of this peroxided prima donna.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Why even post such drivel?

Robert Kuttner is an economist, he doesn't have enough access to the WH to know what Cheney does during the day much less render an opinion on his influence.

He probably just got through watching "Bush's Brain" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" and felt like he was just as informed as the next average DUmmie.

[SmoothTalker]

I would too. While I really like and respect Dick, I don't think he could win. I think running him would give the demoncraps the White House.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Amazing how the Leftists, and RINOS, have vapors when an Ann Coulter says really minor things but day in and day out dozens and doze of Kuttner types spew their hate speech from the Left all over the country and not a word from the usual "moderates"."

As coined, the term for these so called journalists is "Mediacrat."

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Watch for the assault on the Veep to precede the assault on the President as visions of Speaker Pilosi dance in their heads.""

My bad, you already had that. "Precede"

Still need coffee.

[Cheburashka]

So let me get this straight: the press hates everything Bush has ever done, he's the most evil person ever, but wait ... we realize he's just a puppet, and now we're directing all of our anger at Cheney et al?
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WARNING! Do not try to figure out Leftist logic. That way madness lies.

How do you think they got that way?

[hsalaw]

Talk about panic -- the dems would drop dead of it.

Didn't Helen Thomas say she'd shoot herself if VP Cheney ran for president? Run, Cheney, RUN!!

[ncountylee]

Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect and nothing more than a Watergate retread.