Republicans Push Back Against Cheney Legacy Tour
Recently we’ve heard an awful lot from Dick Cheney, considering that widely loathed former Vice Presidents tend to lay low. Turns out some Republicans aren’t thrilled with the trend:
Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input. [...] Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, “He became so unpopular while he was in the White House that it would probably be better for us politically if he wouldn’t be so public…But he has the right to speak out since he’s a private citizen.”
I’m not sure that voting no on everything and calling for a spending freeze really qualifies as “rebuilding” but I suppose recognizing that people don’t like Dick Cheney shows that we’re all living in a common universe.
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March 24th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Looking at that photo, channelling Freud: “sometimes a gun is just a penis substitute.”
March 24th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Not really. People not liking Dick Cheyney is probably common to most universes.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Yeah, get Dick Cheney out of the way to make room for popular Republicans, like…?
March 24th, 2009 at 10:20 am
widely loathed former Vice Presidents tend to lay low
I question this generalization — Quayle and Mondale may not count as “widely loathed,” but Nixon probably does, and that seems to indicate that widely loathed former Vice Presidents tend to run for the Presidency. Or we could go back to Burr and conclude that widely loathed former vice presidents tend to shoot people in the face, except Cheney already has that covered.
(I know, I know, it wasn’t in the face.)
…further research reveals that Burr was sitting Vice President at the time. That is gangsta. OK, I’ll have to retreat to “widely loathed former Vice Presidents tend to recruit private armies and set up their own independent nation, and eventually get tried for treason.” I can get behind the last part.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
You know, despite all the horrible things that Burr did in real life, I will always think fondly of him based on Gore Vidal’s (most excellent) Burr.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:03 am
“You know, I’ve never shot a friend in the face with a flintlock before…”
March 24th, 2009 at 11:09 am
(I know, I know, it wasn’t in the face.)
I think it was. Well, he was “peppered.” It was a shotgun so we’d have to go to video to see if it was mostly in the face as well as a little to the chest or mostly to the chest as well as a little to the face, but he definitely got at least some of it in the face.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Cyrus: I think Matt Weiner was saying Burr didn’t shoot Hamilton in the face, not that Cheney didn’t shoot that old dude in the face.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Is it just me, or do those two gentlemen standing with Cheney look nervous?
March 24th, 2009 at 11:29 am
So much for “creating our own reality.”
We’re all members of the reality-based community now.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Led, that’s correct; I was thinking of Burr.
James Thurber’s “A Friend to Alexander” is a great story (don’t try to read it on Google Books, though, it cuts off the ending).
March 24th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, “He became so unpopular while he was in the White House . . .”
LOL-so even Republican Congresscritters now acknowledge that Bush was nothing more than a Potemkin President, and that Cheney was the real power. Ordinarily, VP’s aren’t in the White House except as guests . . .
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March 24th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
The RNC ought to put flowers on Spiro Agnew’s grave in retroactive appreciation.
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March 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am
A la comment #1, whenever I contemplate that guy on the right I imagine him looking down the blouse (or up the skirt) of an unseen woman in the front row of the audience.
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April 15th, 2009 at 5:57 am
I can tell that this is not the first time at all that you write about this topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?