Cheney responds to Hagel's criticism ["Well, I'm vice president and they're not.".....]

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[Sub-Driver]

Cheney responds to Hagel's criticism

16 minutes ago

Vice President Dick Cheney shot back at Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record) of Nebraska, who has accused the Bush administration of playing "a pingpong game with American lives" by sending more U.S. troops into Iraq.

"Let's say I believe firmly in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican," Cheney said. "But it's very hard sometimes to adhere to that where Chuck Hagel is involved."

Cheney's comments came in a Newsweek interview released Sunday.

Hagel, a potential presidential candidate, has been outspoken in his criticism that the Republican White House lacks a coherent strategy in Iraq.

His "pingpong" remark came Wednesday as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee debated a nonbinding resolution that condemned Bush's troop buildup in Iraq. Hagel co-sponsored the measure, which the committee approved in a 12-9 vote.

He was the only Republican to vote for it.

[LibKill]

Gotta love Cheney's style. Simple and direct to the point.

[bray]

Wonder how he plans on Funding that Presidential Campaign?? $0R0$???

Pray for W and Our Troops

[WalterSkinner]

Well, I'm vice president and they're not

..I love Cheney

If he were in better health--no doubt in my mind who to support...

[i_dont_chat]

Poor planning on the part of the Republican Party, to run a person for Vice President who wasn't healthy enough to run for President, when the time came.

[Republic]

Something is deeply wrong with Hagel, and methinks it is called 'ego'. Something he places above his party, above our military and especially above our entire nation.

Guess ol Hagel enjoys the press attention-and has learned that the only way to get it from the major news media at CBS, NBC, ABC and NPR and MSNBC and CNN is to betray and dis your President as well as your own party.

Those liberal, biased and blatantly unfair press groups LOVE any Republican who shows the betrayals Hagel has, they eat it up and ego driven folks like Hagel bask in this pseudo wooing.

[jesseam]

Hagel is a Republican look alike but is really a democrat

[IronJack]

Something is deeply wrong with Hagel, and methinks it is called 'ego'.

Methinks thou hast hit the nail on the head.

[rlmorel]

[Yorlik803]

he is another RINO....reason # 100 I dont give money to the RNC anymore...

[AdvisorB]

Those who want to understand what makes hagel, hagel, you only have to look at the former Senator from Nebraska, George Norris. Norris was a progressive nut who opposed the Conservative Republican Harding and Coolidge administrations. He flirted with supporting LaFollette, the progressive nominee for POTUS in 1912. Hagel thinks he's the reincarnation of the leftist progressive, George Norris.

[FreedomNeocon]

Schmegel is NOT a presidential candidate.

Total JOKE candidate, wouldn't even reach Nader type numbers, is literally polling at 1% (rounding up)... yet because he is bashing Bush, he gets that attached to his name in every story.

Typical.

[geezerwheezer]

Because Sen. Hagel is free to speak his mind, and continually belittles our President's policies in Iraq and elsewhere, we ought to feel free to speak our minds about Sen. Hagel too. I think he is less than smart, opportunistic, selfish, and trying to make his bones off of another. His rhetoric is less than candid, his rancor is most annoying, and he is not a person of good character in my opinion. I have a better chance to be POTUS than that P.O.S. will ever have.

[Gil4]

Hagel, a potential presidential candidate

So are Chris Dodd and Al Sharpton, but that doesn't mitigate their lack of credibility either.

[Heart of Georgia]

What if the VP were to step down for health reasons?

[hinckley buzzard]

Poor planning on the part of the Republican Party, to run a person for Vice President who wasn't healthy enough to run for President, when the time came.

It was Bush's call, not the party's. Anyway, I'm grateful we have had such a superior vice-president for the last six years, even though he apparently won't run in 2008. I suspect Bush might have gone wobbly without him at his side.

[ElkGroveDan]

Poor planning on the part of the Republican Party, to run a person for Vice President who wasn't healthy enough to run for President,

Who ever said he's not "healthy enough"? A stent hardly rules anyone out for anything short of kickboxing. My father had his first bypass in his forties (much more serious than a stent) another one in his 60s and is still going strong at the age of 82.

Cheney's health is fine. He decided he didn't WANT to run for President.

[ElkGroveDan]

What if the VP were to step down for health reasons?

There is nothing wrong with his "health".

[italianquaker]

nah he has been a great vice prez for 8 years and that makes it a smart decision

[DouglasKC]

Poor planning on the part of the Republican Party, to run a person for Vice President who wasn't healthy enough to run for President, when the time came.

But great planning by God to put a leaders in who would be able to deal with a terrorist attack on American soil.