Quote of the Day

Larry Kudlow:

“Strange as it may seem, the best GOP spokesman right now appears to be former Vice President Dick Cheney. He has taken the Obama administration to task over its declassification of CIA torture memos. He says Team Obama has made America less safe. He’s right. Perhaps he can rally the party?”

12 Comments

Real History Lisa on April 29, 2009 at 5:47 pm

Oh my gosh. Let him try. Most of them are running as fast as they can to distance themselves from Bush/Cheney. Rightly so.

On another point – just found this, re Specter. I really fear what he’ll do from within the walls of our party!

In order to replace several U.S. Attorneys with handpicked successors, the Bush Administration has relied on a tiny, obscure provision tucked into last year’s USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act.

How did it get there?

Former Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) slipped the language into the bill at the very last minute, according to one of the Republican managers of the bill.

A spokesperson for Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), who led the House team working on the bill, said that the provision was inserted by Specter into the final draft of the bill. The language was apparently requested by the Justice Department. Specter’s office didn’t respond to numerous requests for comment.

From TPM, 2007

BooMan on April 29, 2009 at 7:59 pm

IIRC, it turned out to be a Cheney-mole on Specter’s judiciary staff that did that.
- Real History Lisa on April 29, 2009 at 8:55 pm
  
  Thanks. Still interesting!

The Voice In The Wilderness on April 29, 2009 at 5:50 pm

Yes, I’ll take Dick Cheney as the face of the Republican Party. Yes! Yes! Yes!

Now that I’ve had my orgasm for the day, I’ll say that this would much better for us than Rush. Rush has a following of dittoheads. Cheney is pretty much universally detested, even among Republicans.

dada on April 29, 2009 at 5:52 pm

this one’s a couple days old, but in the same vein.

ross douthat, nyt:

Cheney for President

Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, it’s been hard to escape the impression that both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.

imo, with tongue firmly in cheek, as it were.

Errol on April 29, 2009 at 10:30 pm

Guess we should enjoy the NYT adding a humor columnist to the oped page.
public takeover on April 29, 2009 at 11:39 pm

If he thinks it’s hard to escape from that, he should try getting locked up by mistake in Gitmo and then surviving until some civil rights lawyer figures out a way to get him a real hearing.

boran2 on April 29, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Ha! Yeah, he’ll rally the party just as soon as the second Deathstar is operational.

Multisect on April 29, 2009 at 9:56 pm

RNC Chairman Steele should remind former
Vice President Cheney that Republicans have incumbent intellectual giants to speak for the GOP. With Rep. King of Iowa, Rep. Bachmann of Minnesota, Gov. Palin of Alaska and Sen. James Imhofe of Oklahoma and Steele himself available for the media, Cheney can go back to his video games and jigsaw puzzles.