Thy visage to mine ambush at thy heart
Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes
Matthew Arnold, A Superscription
It is to be hoped that the fortunes of Richard Bruce Cheney are now rapidly fading, especially in light of the finally released National Intelligence Estimate.
It is further to be hoped that Cheney’s hopes and desires to bomb and invade Iran and raise oil to $150/barrel will forever be dashed -- but don’t hold your breath.
Even should all of the hopeful events discussed above come about, however, there is the long term threat of the Cheney Dynasty.
Daughter Elizabeth Cheney is married to Philip Perry. They have five hopeful children, three daughters, two sons christened Philip Richard Perry and Richard Perry, respectively. The eldest child, a daughter, was born in 1997 so, perchance, we have a 20-year respite before she achieves the means to maintain and extend the Cheney lust for power.
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Madame Cheney Perry has accrued years of service in the area of Near Eastern Affairs. More recently she has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs where she also headed the Iran-Syria Operations Group (ISOG), a unit within the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. ISOG has an $80 million budget to promote democracy in Iran and to develop administration policy for Iran and Syria.
Madame Cheney Perry resigned this post to campaign for Fred Thompson.
In the meantime, husband Philip Perry has served as Acting Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. Perry is a member of the Federalist Society. He is currently a partner at Latham & Watkins in their litigation department.
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Then, there is younger sister, Mary Claire Cheney. Ms. Cheney has produced a beloved Cheney grandson christened Samuel David Cheney. Perchance, this child will prove to be the anointed one of the family dynasty.
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The genesis of this pronounced family hunger for power appears to spring from the loins of Lynne Ann Vincent Cheney, spouse of Richard Bruce. She has served as chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, senior fellow in education and culture at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, on Lockheed Corporation's board of directors.
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Madame Cheney is also an author. In achieving her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 19th-Century English Literature she penned a dissertation entitled Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry. She has also authored a number of fictional accounts, at least one of which has become a pricey collector's item, some minor histories, her autobiography, rightwing diatribes on virtue.
A meaningful, dishy biography of Lynne has yet to be produced, but it is apparent that she has played a major role in the political perambulations of Dick which have become ever more focused and concentrated as years pass, under her tutorship.