Dick Cheney Used To Think Of The Vice President As A "Cruddy Job"
Via Reuters:
Dick Cheney once considered the vice presidency a "cruddy job" but got over his misgivings and went on to be arguably the most powerful No. 2 in U.S. politics, and one of the most heavily criticized.
The 66-year-old Cheney's stoic, no-nonsense demeanor and influence in many White House decisions are in stark contrast to his youthful days when he was caught twice for drunk driving in Wyoming and dropped out of Yale University for bad grades.
Cheney's life has been chronicled in a fairly sympathetic biography by Stephen Hayes, a writer for The Weekly Standard conservative magazine. He spent nearly 30 hours in one-on-one interviews with the normally reticent Cheney for the book.
In his research Hayes found that Cheney in 1996 called the vice presidency a "cruddy job," which his political mentor, President Gerald Ford, had hated. But by 2000 Cheney was persuaded to accept when George W. Bush offered the position. Read more...
This one is too easy. Have at it...
Impeach cheaney Now!!!
Cheney wasn't being stoic when he said to Patrick Leahy, "Go fuck yourself."
Nor was Cheney being stoic as he implied that Saddam was behind the 9/11/2001 attacks.
We were warned.....
Suggestion for a new C&L post...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200707220001?f=h_top
Picked a number out of the air... gee... wonder how we ended up in this war?
Impeach Cheney and Bush !!! Call your Congressmen 202-224-3121
If the crud fits ...
And then he read Mein Kampf and thought maybe this doesn't have to be such a cruddy job after all. And Reichsmarshal sounds like a lot better job title than Vice President. And brown is my favorite color.
Let's work hard to change his mind about thinking it "used" to be a cruddy job.
HR 333: Impeach Cheney.
Cheney offered himself the job and accepted it. He has as much as said so.
Since he thought being vice president was a "cruddy" job, he became a "cruddy vice president.
(Since no one's said the obvious, I'll go ahead and do it)
Well, Cheney's certainly done a cruddy job as VP...
It's better to let sleeping Dicks lie.
-GSD
Cheney has certainly lived up to the billing.
-GSD
In the bunker...the deep dark bunker...the Cheney sleeps toniiiiite.
In the bunker...the deep dark bunker...the Cheney sleeps toniiite...
Weeeee....oh weee...I'm above all itttt...
Weeeee....weee..oh....I'm more than Vice Presidenttttt...
Did he really use the term, "cruddy"?
Ick! Is the actual article written in blood?
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The photo seems to be taken after the Dick had his fill of baby hearts.
if the job is so curddy, then resign. or i fogot, cheney is planning the takeover of the govt during a (planned) terrorist attack in 2008. all the clues must be in the defense plans that are denied to the d-senator on the homeland security council.
said it before, bush/cheney will take over when we have another terrorist attack(one of their making) and suspend all elections in 2008. heil bush/cheney
Some persuasion. His role was to vet the candidates, and he chose himself.
Put it together... neocons write their PNAC Plan, use the popular Bush name, lots of money, and Rove to get neocons close enough to steal the election on 2000, then implement their plan. Then they all benefit financialy and politically. This group is like organized crime, and don't mind if people get killed while they make their power grab and profits.
The 9-11 questioners are sounding more reasonable all the time, the more we know about this crew. It is not unreasonable to assume that they knew attacks were coming, and let them occur. (It was in their PNAC plans, which have been followed like a checklist.)
The only reason Dick didn't like the VP before is because the President was doing his job. If the president is easily manipulated or ceremonial, the VP's position is much more appealing.
Can't say whether the 'job' of VP is cruddy or not... Can say Dick Cheney is a cruddy VP............ Yea, I know, not too catchy... But then I'm trying to be stoic....heheh JD
mccall said it, but it needs to be said again: Cheney was in charge of the search for a VP, he wasn't satisfied with anyone else, so he recommended himself, and Bush accepted the recommendation. Cheney gave himself the job.
Now the interesting question I've always hoped someone would answer is this: Who else out there, in the world of donors and think-tanks, was in on the idea? Whose agenda was Cheney implementing when he proposed himself as VP?
Has great nap time benefits though--apart from the glasses, the photograph with this NYT steno piece
for the republican senate caucus has Cheney snoozing just 3 feet from the POTUS. This was from July 14. I am sure our man Dick was wide awake and alert during the colonoscopy though.
... and Imaveep answered. Thanks. That's what I've always suspected: PNAC et al. were behind it the whole way. So much for government of, by and for the people.
Eric Jaffa @ 2:
That's one of the first things that word brought to mind. Just because half your face is paralyzed so you can't show emotion outside a Joker-esque sneer doesn't make you stoic.
"He is pathologically (but purposefully) secretive, treacherous toward colleagues; coldly manipulative of the callow, lazy, and ignorant president he serves". Now that sounds like Cheney.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
He must have seen too many episodes of Leave It To Beaver.
He looks like the Big Lebowski in that picture.
I dream of evil.
If it wasn't then it is now. One of FDR's veep's described the office as, "...not worth a warm bucket of spit."
Oopsie, that was John Nance Garner.
Tug @ 30:
I Dream of Jeannie.
Cheney, please keep eating heavily salted red meat.
He runs the show. He da man!
IMPEACH DEAD-EYE DICKHEAD!
That pic of Cheney snoozing would be funny if it wasn't such a good metaphor for the puppet he really is. It looks as if big oil took its hand out of his ass for a moment so Haliburton could have a turn.
Looks like Cheney fell asleep at yet another meeting just last week. See the photo:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/washington/14capital.html?ei=5090&en=4...
That's what he said publicly. But in truth he knew he'd be pulling the strings. He downplayed it intentionally in public in order to diminish expectations of his supposed involvement. He knew he'd be the puppetmaster.
He's hiding out in the Bat cave again.
Hayes wrote a "fairly sympathetic biography"????
Yes, you can tell its only "fairly" sympathetic because his tongue is only halfway up Cheney's ass.
justabill @ 37:
Naah. He hunkers down like that, so no one can shoot him in the face.
Wasn't there an ealrier post wher ewe foudn out that this bit of hackery was total crap because Bush didn't pick Cheney to be VP -- Cheney headed up the group searching for the VP and picked himself!
Cruddy until you become the puppet master.
DickHead turned a cruddy job into a crappy job in the process of it becoming a truly sh*tty job, mostly because of his excremental personality. But there are lighter moments.
According to his diary, he has the most fun when he drapes a sheet over himself, late at night, creeps into Bush's bedroom, and plays 'God', while Bush is battling his demon rum and megalomaniacal hallucinations.
He also enjoys seeing how far he can lower his voice while whispering at his secret meetings, laughing quietly as top CEO's try to crawl across table tops unobtrusively, to get close enough to not miss a word, as he hatches his plans to transfer US Treasury funds to the accounts of KBR, Halliburton, and the Non-Profit Faith-Based Benevolent Charity Society to Prevent Cheney Poverty thru the Thirty-First Century.
Three votes away and we have this:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6377
and the DeFazio denial.
Should be enough.
See ya dick.
Broken lines, broken strings,
Broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads,
People sleeping in broken beds.
Ain't no use jiving
Ain't no use joking
Everything is broken.
Broken bottles, broken plates,
Broken switches, broken gates,
Broken dishes, broken parts,
Streets are filled with broken hearts.
Broken words never meant to be spoken,
Everything is broken.
Bridge: Seem like every time you stop and turn around
Something else just hit the ground
Broken cutters, broken saws,
Broken buckles, broken laws,
Broken bodies, broken bones,
Broken voices on broken phones.
Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin',
Everything is broken.
Bridge: Every time you leave and go off someplace
Things fall to pieces in my face
Broken hands on broken ploughs,
Broken treaties, broken vows,
Broken pipes, broken tools,
People bending broken rules.
Hound dog howling, bull frog croaking,
Everything is broken.
Bob Dylan
I dream of Cheney.
-Bill Kristol
I think he actually said it's a "bloody" job.
Looks like the perfect fit for GW's Admin. Think he has any cheerleading experience?
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He picked a cruddy man for the "cruddy" job.
I wonder if the article covers his fond memories of the first time he ate a baby.
D'ah, isn't he just the lil' angel sleeping like that?
He's probably dreaming about water boarding Pelosi or maybe nuking Iran.
Yes, Cheney picked himself to be Busholini's veep, but the SCOTUS selected them as winners of the 2000 election.
Cheney in 1996 called the vice presidency a “cruddy job,”
The job isn't cruddy, the guy (vp) is cruddy.
He still thinks it's a cruddy job, that's why he decided to promote himself to President!
bill w @ 54:
ROFL!!!!!! When did he say "the guy" (i.e. Mr. Gore) was "cruddy"? Can you read? Are you that obtuse?
Is America liberated? Check his pulse.
IMPEACH him ...................
Did I read this correctly -- "hired Cheney as a deputy despite eyebrows raised over the two drunk driving arrests in the early 1960s. -- Cheney's had two [2] DWIs?
This would mean he's had two felonies . . .? What's the status of his alcohol recovery program. . .
Mein Kampf and 1984. Reading 2 how to manuals at the same time is tiring.
"narcoleptic" cheney would call this a "crud job". And he's the crud who made it so.
IMPEACH CHENEY NOW!! He's becoming a national embarrassment.
RequiredName @ 59:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cheneydwi1.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cheneydwi2.html
Drunk driving was not a felony in the 60's or well after that, for that matter.
"He is pathologically (but purposefully) secretive, treacherous toward colleagues; coldly manipulative of the callow, lazy, and ignorant president he serves."
- Hendrik Hertzberg, a former Carter speechwriter, writing in The New Yorker on Vice President Dick Cheney
Shhhhhhhhh. Don't wake him. Ever.
Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please
And if things don't change soon, he will.
Oh, man has invented his doom,
First step was touching the moon.
Now, there's a woman on my block,
She just sit there as the night grows still.
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
Now, he's hell-bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused,
And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
All he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies.
But there's a woman on my block,
Sitting there in a cold chill.
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
Bob Dylan
License to Kill
Dr. Matt @ 62:
Apparently the blood-alcohol level was pretty high in the people Cheney ate earlier on those instances in the 1960's.
veritas @ 61:
If being a national embarrassment were grounds for impeachment Bush would have been out of office after his first week.
Mussolini complex on the march
Well he's sure doing a cruddy job...
Cruddy men are the ones to make the job itself cruddy. Those with an admirable work ethic strive to do the best at whatever task they engage in. Cheney seeks only to do what is good for Cheney. I sincerely hope at some point he gets the chance to go F--- himself. Now THAT'S a "cruddy" job (ask Mrs. C.)!
shhhhh wile this sonofabitch is asleep pit bulls are safe
thats the ticket
I Am A Banana @ 51:
More than likely. Its just a damned shame that he woke up. shit, shit, shit, shit, shit
Now wonder he looks so tired...he just exausting himself shredding the Constitution and destroying a Democracy. Tough work even for the evilest of us.
a word of advice to the r.n.c...get the names of those SOCIOPATHS OFF your rolodex!!!
And to think all you had to do was make a connection between his Halliburton stocks and the goals of the Nazi empire of America,.....wow....woke his as up, didn't it???
" are in stark contrast to his youthful days when he was caught twice for drunk driving in Wyoming and dropped out of Yale University for bad grades."
What do you mean STARK CONTRAST!? He hasn't changed a bit! He didn't care about obeying the laws when he was young, and he STILL doesn't. He didn't bother to work hard to get results when he was young, and he still doesn't. Only, these days, it's a lot easier for him to cheat, or use thuggery, corruption, nepotism, and intimidation, rather than honest work, to get the results he wants.
Shush all of you.
Dick sleeping, good.
That's what the big boy does after getting a b job from the DC madam escort service.
Shush.
Let him sleep lest he get another hard on for Iran, Pakistan, Guatemala, Daifur, you name if folks. The man dreams in world domination mode. Despite rumors to the contrary the man is a pickle versus a large and very prolife Iranian/Mideast cucumber seeds.
Looks like this cruddy job turned out pretty good
He looks like a big old pot gut sloppy, nasty, ugly, evil bastard that he is.
tyree @ 71:
Home run, Tyree!
Looks like he needs a lightening strike on his neck electrodes.
while this old sonofabich slept one million more maggots crawled out of his ass!!!
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