Dick Cheney is even worse than you think he is.

Cheney is about as miserable a specimen of humanity as you're likely to find anywhere on earth. There's a long story on him in an old copy of "Rolling Stone" magazine,

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6450422/the_curse_of_dick_cheney/

but here's a sample of his congressional record from the article.

"People who find Cheney's extremism as vice president surprising have not looked at his congressional voting record. In 1986, he was one of only twenty-one members of the House to oppose the Safe Drinking Water Act. He fought efforts to clean up hazardous waste and backed tax breaks for energy corporations. He repeatedly voted against funding for the Veterans Administration. He opposed the release of Nelson Mandela from jail in South Africa. He even voted for cop-killer bullets."

Any of this sound familiar? Who needs clean water? Hey, hazardous waste is good for you -- gives you a glow. Energy corporations are entitled to every cent we can help them steal. Veterans have served their purpose and they think they're entitled to care? Fuck 'em. Black people are drowning in NOLA? Who cares. If the NRA wants cop-killer bullets, they got it.

Any doubt whose agenda is really being implemented under Junior?

Saying he "voted for cop-killer bullets" is pretty disingenuous, though.

if under nuclear attack during the Nixon administration, I think. How to keep the government going. They had a whole plan, including martial law, I think. Just scary looking at how the administration now tries to make something of every possible disaster to justify more executive branch power.

Talked Ford into the FOIA veto, which was over-rided by Congress.

-Hoot

the "Head Start Program" for kids.

In defending his vote, he said "just because 'something has a fancy title doesn't mean it merited support.'" Miserable bastard.

http://www.saveheadstart.org/backpages/hsbasics.cfm

collaborators, accessories, etc.

full length bio of Cheney, far as I know

he gets it, among the few in the media

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=59769

John Nichols' book, The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History (The New Press) is available nationwide at independent bookstores and at www.amazon.com. Publisher's Weekly describes it as "a Fahrenheit 9/11 for Cheney" and Esquire magazine says it "reveals the inner Cheney.

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney includes an interview with Joseph Wilson and details the inner workings of the vice president's office at the time of the Plame-Wilson leak.

You're far too kind. He has a mechanical heart, literally and figuratively.

now he is a "go to war for democracy" guy? Oh, please.

:mad:

He's the prototypical elitist plutocrat - a total fascist of the current age. Paternalist, autocratic, and deceitful, he holds more antipathy for the "common man" than any hundred average people. He's 100% devoted to Global Corporatism - a world of 0.1% "owners," 0.9% owner's agents, and 99% worker droids.

My 75 year old mother calls him Mussolini without the Jeep.

He puts a puppet on the pulpit and pulls the strings

Indeed, his antipathy for the "common man" is nearly matched by his fear of them. Cheney is a COWARD and prefers to operate with ever-increasing power from "undisclosed locations." He is NOT a fighter. He's a passive-agressive sociopath. A stereotypical sneak-attack bully.

I wouldn't trust him within a mile of anything or anyone I care about. He's a greater danger to a society than 1,000 sex-offenders. His corruption is incurable. Only a totally pathological narcissist like Smirk can serve Cheney's purposes. He's an ideal front man - completely manipulable and absent any intellectual acumen or self-esteem. Cheney is the Daddy Smirk didn't have, feeding him the 'approval' Daddy never did.

Welcome to DU :hi:

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

:evilgrin: The "retirement" of Benito and his wife.

I would like to see the real evidence from 9/11.

There're some actions/events (e.g. national strike) that'd be symptomatic of a nation far closer to realizing justice and equity than I believe is the case in America today. This cabal is not the cause of our national corruption - they're a symptom. The widespread acceptance of the privileges and entitlements of wealth - superior to those of labor and human rights - is appalling to me. That even 29% approve of the behavior of this regime is appalling. That a majority somehow think national service is "somebody else's job" is disgusting. That a majority think it's somehow acceptable for the state to commit homicide (both domestically and overseas) is reprehensible.

That pilot was excellent (not an amateur) to have pulled off that feat. A release of evidence "tapes" would answer that one once and for all and close much of the conspiracy theories.

Rumsfield has a piece of the plane in his office, it is the only piece that has been released for public view.

That's gotta hurt. :rofl:

(P.S. That's Claretta Patacci, the Duce's mistress - Donna Rachele Mussolini survived the war :hi:)

:rofl:

It was his mistress, Clara Petacci.

He's the prototypical elitist plutocrat - a total fascist of the current age.
Paternalist, autocratic, and deceitful - he holds antipathy for the "common man"
He's 100% devoted to Global Corporatism - a world of owners and worker droids.
This situation was not of your picking - You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man

http://lyricsdepot.com/sting-police/demolition-man.html">The Police

diseased, maggot-infested shit.

and he is FAR FAR worse than even the public record indicates

He is as bad as I always thought he was. Are most people aware that he has set up a shadow government which is prepared to step in at a second's notice should he find an excuse? It is run by he and Rumsfeld who disappear 2 times a month from the scene and no one, not even their families, is allowed to know where they are and what they are doing. It was set up using terrorism as an excuse but is essentially a coup d'etat. No congressional oversight, no nothing to stop this unless he is stopped.

Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret
After Attacks, Bush Ordered 100 Officials to Bunkers Away From Capital to Ensure Federal Survival

By Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 1, 2002; Page A01


“President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital.

Execution of the classified "Continuity of Operations Plan" resulted not from the Cold War threat of intercontinental missiles, the scenario rehearsed for decades, but from heightened fears that the al Qaeda terrorist network might somehow obtain a portable nuclear weapon, according to three officials with firsthand knowledge. U.S. intelligence has no specific knowledge of such a weapon, they said, but the risk is thought great enough to justify the shadow government's disruption and expense.
Deployed "on the fly" in the first hours of turmoil on Sept. 11, one participant said, the shadow government has evolved into an indefinite precaution. For that reason, the high-ranking officials representing their departments have begun rotating in and out of the assignment at one of two fortified locations along the East Coast. Rotation is among several changes made in late October or early November, sources said, to the standing directive Bush inherited from a line of presidents reaching back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Officials who are activated for what some of them call "bunker duty" live and work underground 24 hours a day, away from their families. As it settles in for the long haul, the shadow government has sent home most of the first wave of deployed personnel, replacing them most commonly at 90-day intervals.

The civilian cadre present in the bunkers usually numbers 70 to 150, and "fluctuates based on intelligence" about terrorist threats, according to a senior official involved in managing the program. It draws from every Cabinet department and some independent agencies. Its first mission, in the event of a disabling blow to Washington, would be to prevent collapse of essential government functions.”cont….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20584-2002Feb28?language=printer

*shadow government*

far, far away from the nuclear codes.

My biggest fear however, is come Jan. 20, 2009, they have no intention of giving up power. A "terrorist attack" followed by martial law doesn't seem like a far out scenario.

Hopefully that will be the trigger to rise up and take to the streets.The only kind of diplomacy freepers understand is through the end of a gun barrel, I wish to show them what it's like being on the other side as they and their brethren are forcibly marched to war crimes tribunals.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/

Video link there, too, to watch the 41 min. documentary online

The man gets four draft deferments and a 3-A hardship exemption, and then goes on to become Secretary of Defense. What a guy- no shame whatsoever.

He's not human!!

longer. Appalling.

Kicked and recommended!

:kick:

Mary Cheney gets NO PASS from me for being a similarly horrible person for sticking behind the black-hearted, puss-filled piece of shit.

J

but this guy is a fucking Hack. Thank you for this post. Well worth reading. I will be forwarding the link to those who think he is a good man.

Know your BFEE: Cheney & Halliburton Sold Iran Nuke Technology
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=928662

Know your BFEE: Sneering Dick Cheney, Superturd-Superrich-Supercrook
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3627538

Plame Affair makes clear: USA is run by TRAITORS.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4200507



Or just read my signature!

Let us not be the instrument of putting another Dick in the Oval Office.

Seems that his rating would be around 5%.

(snip)
Is That Natural Gas Coming Out of Your Pants or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Will advancements in effigy technology never cease? ;-)

The guy there is Ben Cohen, the Ben in Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. He's driving around the country with his PantsOnFire-Mobile.
(snip)
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hick0088/mt/archives/2004_07.php

nothing evil he does can possibly surprise me. in fact, a good deal of what i've read here i've heard before the 2000 election. if Lincoln was alive, even with his strategic patience, he'd take a cane to Cheney, and bust his pacemaker for good measure. he makes the worst stereotypical vampires seems cuddly. only Great Old Ones, Outer Gods, and Demon Princes outdo his putrescent evil. the only way he could surprise me is if he suddenly turned into a tree-hugging, brownie-baking, hippie peacenik. and if that happened i'm sure a universe-destroying singularity would result from the contrast.

but yeah, spread the news. a lot of people dont' realize that he's basically the GOP Praetor, cruelty and selfishness incarnate.

I know how greedy and hateful and evil Cheney is...I know how much he really despises the poor and working people...he really truly hates them...I know he hates our personal freedoms and has no respect what-so-ever for our Constitution!

The super arrogant and incredibly vindictive Cheney is a psychopath, a killer who sincerely loves killing, loves blood & torture, enjoys people in pain...

And all of Cheney's "friends" would proudly say(in private)that I got who Cheney is EXACTLLY, right on the money!!

Just like under Reagan, Bush Sr. called the shots. Just like under Clinton, the repuke Congress was calling the shots. And now with Bush Jr., Cheney is the one calling the shots.

Anyone wonder why our government is so fucked up? It's because we dont KNOW who's really in charge.

He opposed federal funding for abortions -- with no exceptions in the case of rape or incest.

He voted against the Equal Rights Amendment for women, along with 146 other members of Congress in 1983.

On Education, he consistently opposed funding of Head Start and voted against creating the Department of Education.

Cheney was raised in Wyoming and opposes, as many Westerners do, gun control limits.

He was one of just 21 members of Congress, in December of 1985, to vote against a ban on armor piercing bullets -- called cop killer bullets.

Three years later he was one of only four members of the House voting against a ban on plastic guns that could slip through airport security machines undetected. The National Rifle Association did not oppose this ban.

Also in 1988, Cheney voted to scrap a proposed national seven-day waiting period on handgun purchases.

On the environment, Cheney opposed refunding the Clean Water Act. He voted to postpone sanctions slapped on air polluters that failed to meet pollution standards.

And he voted against legislation to require oil, chemical and other industries from making public records of emissions known to cause cancer, birth defects and other chronic diseases.

Dick Cheney consistently voted to raise military spending. He also supported aid to the Nicaraguan rebels, even after a moratorium on funding was passed.



And, of course, as you know he voted against freeing Nelson Mandela from South Africa and against MLK Day.

just one reason he needs to be tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison for every crime he's committed over the past 35 or so years.

It must be demonstrated to others of his ilk that some day, they will be held accountable for the misery, suffering and death they brought down on the people of the world.

As far as where he's to be imprisoned, I'd opt for a cage where the public is permitted to walk past, spit on him, and throw mock-up shares of Halliburton stock at him. And may he live to be 120 so that most living people can get their turn.

And while we're at it, why not make Jeff Gannon his cage mate. There could be three shows a day and people would be required to buy tickets to help reduce the national debt. Given the nature of this show, a massive reduction wouldn't take more than two or three years.