11/14/05
Tough-guy stuff
Bush's No. 2 gives no quarter and plays for all the marbles
By Kenneth T. Walsh
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051114/14cheney.htm

Far from being chastened by recent setbacks, including the indictment of his chief of staff, Vice President Dick Cheney is thumbing his nose at his critics--and encouraging President Bush to do the same. "Bush and Cheney are standing as one," says a prominent Republican who regularly advises the White House. "Their strategy is to get the conservative base solidified again, and Cheney is key because he is the administration's main link to the right."

Cheney is described by White House insiders as combative and eager to rally the GOP faithful. As part of that effort, he will continue to ride the Republican fundraising circuit in advance of next year's midterm elections, as he did last Friday, headlining events in Cincinnati and Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Behind the scenes, Cheney is feeding Bush's instinct never to give ground when under attack, White House advisers say, despite rising concern among Republicans that the president doesn't realize the depth of his political trouble. With Bush's job-approval ratings at historic lows, 52 percent of Americans think the indictment of Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby reflects broader ethics problems in the administration, according to a Washington Post/ABC News Poll.

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President Bush, meanwhile, is thinking in bigger terms. Friends say he has decided that he will never catch a break from the Democrats or the media--on the CIA case or anything else--so he will govern from the right, as he did on most issues in his first term. "He seems content to remain a 51-percent president, unlike other presidents who wanted to increase their job approval far beyond that," says a friend. "In fact, as long as he gets one more vote than the other side, he seems happy."

With Edward T. Pound and Kevin Whitelaw

that cell on the right? :evilgrin:

Fine, he can be dragged kicking and screaming then.

Let the old crook bluster all he wants. Won't change a damn thing.

And it won't work for Cheney/Chimpster any better than it did for him.

Cheney & Bush both look 20 years older recently. This is more "they're so resolute" spin from Rove.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

"He seems content to remain a 51-percent president

35% last I heard is less than 51%


"In fact, as long as he

CAN STEAL

one more vote than the other side, he seems happy."

Especially after they've been busted referring to them as "Right-wing wackos"---:spray:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/03/abramoff/index_np.html

Peace.

51% was over a year ago and even then it wasn't real.

Head of a huge company, he appointed himself as Vice President, to hang on to the coattails of someone 'electable'. He then sets government energy policy in secret with his business buddies. Still with huge financial interests in the company getting no-bid contracts with guaranteed profits from his own government, he now appoints himself Torturer-in-Chief, claiming the state has the right to do whatever it wants in its 'historic fight against our enemies'. His contribution to the public face of the regime has been to tell the Big Lie, remorselessly, in the knowledge that it will fool some people. He conjures up phantom enemies, and then says "only we can keep you safe".

It's a textbook definition.

them off their self inflated pedestal.

True evil doesn't back down..it has to be exorcised.