When the governor of Texas asks you to do something...
By Steve Benen Tuesday Jul 17, 2007 1:15pm
Dick Cheney offered The Weekly Standard’s Stephen F. Hayes enormous access for his new love letter book, “Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President,” and TNR has been chronicling some entertaining excerpts. In today’s edition, Cheney tells Hayes why he agreed to be Bush’s running mate.
“If the president of the United States asks you to do something, you really have an obligation to try to do it, if you can.”
Hayes apparently didn’t follow up, which is a shame. When Bush asked Cheney to join the ticket, he wasn’t president of the United States, he was the governor of Texas.
For that matter, Cheney personally led the search for the slot — and chose himself.
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AND THE NYTIMES... TURNS IT AROUND!!!
Maybe dick had already spoken with the Supreme court at the time and they assured him that bush getting into the oval office was a slam dunk
Dick chose himself and in my opinion, he can go f*ck himself now.
Always a Dickhead!!
baby jesus would like to go hunting with Dick
Hayes' authoritarian cultism knows no bounds
Wow, who knew that the VP is not chosen until after the President is elected. I have always thought that they ran for office together. The whole Bush/Cheney thing must have just been my daydreaming or something.
This man should be in a nursing home.
That kind of precognition should be investigated (a day later when the gargoyle has sobered up).
Golden piece of information from the Jake Tapper article:
My friends, the new plan to save the Constitution: I give you Project Pomegranate.
In other words, Cheney lied. WHAT a surprise!
Speaking of Dick Cheney, check out this Dick Cheney cartoon I did. I put it up on Break.com here
http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=333575
"If the president of the United States asks you to do something, you really have an obligation to try to do it, if you can.”
Ok, this phrase is for public consumption and mere formality because Dick appointed himself, however, we do know it actually reads as follows:
"If Dick Cheney asks you to do something, you really have an obligation with him to do it, unless you want something bad happen to you"
I had a conversation with someone on the VP selection team around that time. He seemed to think Tom Ridge or Tommy Thompson were the strongest contenders then about two weeks later Cheney was announced. The man is a master at what he does.
Bah. Bush could ask me to drink this here pitcher of delicious ice-cold Sierra Nevada, and I wouldn't do it just because of who's asking.
DICK!! That about sums him up.
Cheney is pure, unadulterated evil. Bush is too stupid to be evil. He's an idiot. But not an evil idiot. He's just too stupid to do anything but follow orders from Rove.
In my life I've never seen a more corrupt, war mongering, evil, awful vice president. He lines his pockets with Halliburton money made off the blood of slaughtered thousands and doesn't think twice about. And the Democrats have employed Halliburton in the past as well. So they get the blame just like Bush.
Cheney's approval rating is the lowest EVER for any vice president. What a sick, evil and horrible man.
Zendog @ 8:
My friends, the new plan to save the Constitution: I give you Project Pomegranate.
I love pemegranates. I buy at least a couple every Samhain.
Pomegranates.
I don't know where my fingers are today.
Not quite the word I would use. Missing an "r."
LOL at the rest of it.
Bush wasn't officially president, but Cheney had probably known for a couple of years that he would be. Send Dick to the Maury Povich show and give him a lie detector test!
"You were asked if you had ANY involvement in 9/11. You said 'no' and the lie detector determned that that was a LIE"
He IS, however, Bush's baby daddy!
You get the torches and I'll round up the boys and meet you by the road to Dr. Frankenstein's castle.
ysabddaden @ 17:
Do you mean palm grenade ?
And with his dick in hand, george won the presidency.
Dave @ 19:
Not possible - didn't you catch Jon Stewart's pipe demonstration?
lafin gas @ 21:
Well that would explain where my fingers are.
How many palm trees do you need to squeeze to get pommade?
ashton @ 6:
Actually, he should be incarcerated at The Hague!
And if the Vice President of the US tells you to do something, you damn well better do it, and fast, if you want to keep your ass in one piece, even if your name is George W(imp) Bush.
Off topic, CNN reports they've caught the top enchilada in Iraq's Al Quesadilla movement; the go-between from Al Quesadilla Iraq and Al Quesadilla International (including the fake sour cream and the mock fire hot sauce); which according to other sources have little or nothing to do with each other! What a surprise, he was caught in Mosul on July 4th (wearing a "make mine an independent day" t-shirt no doubt). Iraq is saved, the death surge has prevailed over Al Quesadilla (watch out for the scallions, they're tainted with Chinese toothpaste and e-coli). Back to Dick!
chris @ 10:
A little heavy-handed, but the animation is good.
So why would he call the then-Governor of Texas the President in this context? Why not Governor? Or failing that, a slightly less damning President-Elect?
A better question: how is it the general populace is able to connect the dots while our liberal media sits around with their metaphorical thumbs up their asses?
Are these questions becoming more and more rhetorical as we discover the mindset of this corrupt, crony-run administration? Sane people would answer with a resounding YES.
Impeachment isn't an option at this point. It's an obligation.
bilhelm-X (#27) That's funny!
When the governor of Texas asks you to do something, you do squat.
It's the Lt Governor who calls the shots.
But he never pays the tab.
As the evil that is BushCo continues its rape of the Constitution, I often wonder if the Neo-Con(vict) plan wasn't always to have Darth pick himself, and then run the country on their behalf. It certainly worked out well for them.
Cheney's not truly evil. He's something much, much worse. He's incompetent.
So, Dick Cheney is a disassembling liar, and Stephen Hayes is a pandering sycophant. Well, color me shocked...
Get a rope! It's hanging time!
Is it just me or have press conferences gotten an awful lot like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJy4gudAH4A
Hayes apparently didn’t follow up, which is a shame. When Bush asked Cheney to join the ticket, he wasn’t president of the United States, he was the governor of Texas.
Great comment, Steve.
Any corroboration of the story I've heard, that Cheney went to each of the top-tier potential VP-nominees on Bush's short list, asked them to provide him with their worst dirty secrets "so that they wouldn't be an issue in the campaign", then picked himself as VP and kept the dossier as a (very effective) tool for blackmailing some of the post powerful conservatives in the country?
Jesus, if Dick Cheney is the natural result of the American system, we're really all in trouble.
The fix was in.
It is obvious to me........ Bush Sr told Cheney to look out for W.
Make W your figurehead and then u will be able to run things from the background
Thats what Jeb did all his life... W is a great fall guy
So like Cheney said....... when the president asks u to do something....... u do it
it would sure be interesting to know what Halliburton traded for before the war and what it trades for now...... how many millions has cheney personally made durring this war and how many billions his company made
He personally led the search for the slut? Oh! Slot. You said slot. But that's inaccurate. Cheney personlly led the search for the slut and BINGO! He duh man!
Given the VP's paranoid levels of secrecy, this thing has got to be all fluff. You time would be better spent staring at a wall.
Energy Task Force Members Revealed...
"Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR200707...
Well, back then, Cheney didn't remember where he lived either. But he made sure the courts knew. Of course, the fix was in....
Crony capitalism?! Whatever. . .that's for pussies like George Bush. As far as Tricky Dick Cheney is concerned, who's more of a crony than yourself?
Or, to put it more straightforwardly, "When the president of one of the world's largest oil companies tells the Governor of Texas to do something, he has an obligation to do it."
Augusto @ 11:
I think you guys are all looking in the wrong context at this. Consider the following 2 ways to look at it:
1)Dick is really saying "I'm really the big cheese, to make sure things go right, I'll appoint myself as the VP."
or
2) Maybe George H. W. Bush asked Cheney to be the VP.....
Roger @ 40:
Exactly, Cheney was his defense secretary, I'm sure there's no small amount of loyalty there...
Thats odd,
When Democratic Presidents were asking people (republicans) todo things. They denied the opportunity.
This is the second time I have seen/heard of 'the dick cheney and his almost accidental addition to the 2000 election ticket. First time he was answering questions following a speach to school students when he indicated he kinda fell into the position--it was the furthest thing from his mind!
Those things happen to him. He got to be CEO of Helliburton and Govt had nothing to do with it--or so he told Joe Momentum. Helliburton must have picked his name out of an old cast off phone book.
When he told Helliburton he would accept he told them he would leave his vast book of Govt contacts behind, they told him, "Oh no, bring them along."
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