Posted on 10/07/2005 1:41:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Cheney Throwing Stones at Democrats
By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer 24 minutes ago
There he goes again. The vice president has been throwing stones, and he's not the least bit sorry about it.
Dick Cheney took two opportunities this week to declare publicly that 75-year-old Rep. Charles Rangel (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., seems to be "losing it." Cheney, 64, added in one interview that Rangel is "a lot older than I am, and it shows."
To be fair, it wasn't Cheney who picked the fight. Rangel previously had lobbed a number of barbs at the vice president and suggested that Cheney, who has a history of heart trouble, might not be up to his job.
"I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil," Rangel said last week.
But Cheney's sharp response — in separate radio interviews Monday with two conservative talk show hosts — suggests he made a calculated decision to hit back hard.
Norman Ornstein, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, said Cheney is not a man prone to flashes of anger, but seems "increasingly less inclined to turn the other cheek" these days, particularly with congressional Democrats whom he once served alongside.
"I'm sure that he's growing a little tired of members taking what he believes are gratuitous personal shots at him," said Ornstein.
Rangel, keeping up the tit-for-tat, said Wednesday that Cheney "ought to be ashamed of himself" and apologize.
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It just doesn't have gravitas when the rats use that phrase.
Rangel calls Cheney mean and evil, maybe sick.
And what's the main emphasis of the story?
"But Cheney's sharp response..."
I hate these SOBs.
What a hackjob.
When will Wrangel apologize to Cheney?
I loved the fact that Brit nearly bust a gut laughing when he said that Cheney said "Charlie seems to be 'losing it', I guess".
"To be fair"
Ah, another infobabe with delusions of adequacy.
He won't. Democrats get a pass, as this article clearly demonstrates.
Bad Cheney.
How dare you fight back when someone says something particularly vicious about you.
It'll be the dunce cap for you, rabble rouser. ;-)
P.S. Go, Cheney, Go!! LOL
"Rangel, keeping up the tit-for-tat, said Wednesday that Cheney "ought to be ashamed of himself" and apologize."
He ought to be a little embarassed about soft-peddling, and call you the vile scumbag treasonous commie race-hustling poverty pimp that you are.
The gloves haven't even begun to come off. Wait until we get about 6-8 months closer to the 06 mid-term election.
"I don't know what I did to offend him, but he's gotten pretty nasty lately.... I think Charlie is a lot older than I am, and it shows," said the vice president.
Rangel, keeping up the tit-for-tat, said Wednesday that Cheney "ought to be ashamed of himself" and apologize....... and Rangel should also do likewise...... but, you know, a DEM will, well ? be a DEM.
I'm sure Dick Cheny will apologize when this moronic assclown from the dark side apologizes for calling him "mean and evil". Which we all know he will not.
I doubt it, a DEM, is a DEM
I knew a fat kid who was getting beat on by a bully once.
I threw him off the fat kid, and told him if he didn't stop, I was going to beat the crap out of him.
It's amazing how much more civil he became after he was confronted.
How about what Cheney told Patric Leahy last year
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