Where he belongs, but not for the reasons Cheney will cite.
4 years ago I got this widespread email about the upcoming "permanent Republican majority."
Now, in the aftermath of 2 resounding defeats at the polls it is no surprise, and so pleasing, to see them eat their young and go into circular firing squad mode.
But has a vice president ever publicly trashed his president so close to the end of an administration? Or for that matter has any vice president ever done something like this?
What will Cheney dish up on the Chimpster now?
And it will all be a contradiction of his own stated principles of governing as the mornings WP points out.
For decades, he expressed contempt for departing officials who wrote insider accounts, arguing that candid internal debate was impossible if the president and his advisers could not count on secrecy. As far back as 1979, one of the heroes in Lynne Cheney's novel "Executive Privilege" resolved never to write a memoir because "a president deserved at least one person around him whose silence he could depend on." Cheney lived that vow for the next 30 years.
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As vice president, according to one witness, Cheney "was livid" when the memoir of L. Paul Bremer, who led the occupation of Iraq, made the less-than-stunning disclosure that Cheney shared Bremer's concern about U.S. military strategy. A Cabinet-level Bush appointee recalled that Cheney likewise described revelations by former Treasury secretary Paul H. O'Neill and former White House spokesman Scott McClellan as "beyond the pale."
- He threw Scooter under the bus and refused to pardon him.
- Bush was stung by criticism and wimped out on policy.
- Bush "moved away from him." (like duh)
- Bush fired Rumsfeld. (like duh)
- Bush stopped waterboarding and closed secret CIA prisons.
- Bush tried diplomacy with Iran and North Korea.
You know, it's an offensive word and I won't use it cause it offends people, and it should. But I can just hear Cheney calling Bush a ______. You know the word that redneck men call men who they think are not real men.
You have to love this.
Has there ever been a Vice President write a book trashing his boss? If there has been, it's not on my bookshelf.
I want to read this book, but I won't buy it and send money to Cheney. I think the moral thing to do is to illegally download it as an E book and read it without paying.
OMG, this is making me smile!