Although his last name is very often pronounced ['tʃeɪni] (chAYnee), the Vice President himself and his family pronounce it as ['tʃi:ni] (chEEnee).The family also insists that Mary isn't gay, she's ghee.
This morning, everyone's talking about this Washington Post profile, which contains the priceless tale of a quietly chuckling Dick Cheney telling Dan Quayle that 43's veep ain't gonna do the traditional funerals-and-fundraisers thang. That was for lesser Vice Presidents.
The Post article plays it cute, in that it begins by denying that Dick is the power behind the throne, and then goes on to prove that very point. Here's one for the 9/11 researchers (and please note that I did not say "Trannies, start your engines"):
Previous accounts have described Cheney's adrenaline-charged evacuation to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center that morning, a Secret Service agent on each arm. They have not detailed his reaction, 22 minutes later, when the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Bush done more in the way of funerals-and-fundraisers than has Tricky Dick II?
"There was a groan in the room that I won't forget, ever," one witness said. "It seemed like one groan from everyone" -- among them Rice; her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley; economic adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey; counselor Matalin; Cheney's chief of staff, Libby; and the vice president's wife.
Cheney made no sound. "I remember turning my head and looking at the vice president, and his expression never changed," said the witness, reading from a notebook of observations written that day. Cheney closed his eyes against the image for one long, slow blink.
Three people who were present, not all of them admirers, said they saw no sign then or later of the profound psychological transformation that has often been imputed to Cheney.
4 comments:
ah, it is positively delicious to think just how far this could go.
i refer readers down to my post from yesterday regarding rahm emmanuel's bill to pull funding from the dick's NONexecutive job and home, since he insists that he is not subject to the rules of the executive branch.
now emptywheel has connected this huge glob of a dot to a point bill leonard made last year:
"...if OVP is not to be considered an entity within the executive branch, I am concerned that this could possibly impede access to classified information by OVP staff, since such access would be considered a disclosure outside the executive branch."
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/06/and-while-were-.html
marcie's solution? pull the VP's security clearance, his and everyone on his staff.
this really could be the tipping point of the BIG SHOWDOWN, one that wll ultimately expose a lot.
things are starting to get quite int'restink....
I'm not sure I believe everything in the Post article, especially the part about Cheney's personality not changing. Why would Brent Scowcroft, who has had a falling out with the Administration, say it did? A better question might be to ask, why does someone want us to believe that Cheney didn't exhibit significant changes after 911?
The real question should be from where does Cheney derive his power? I don't think it's completely about maneuvering, or getting his people in the right places.
Quite interesting indeed! How long wil the people of this great nation, indeed this planet, allow this shit to continue?
Impeach the sob already!
anon, i don't think the article is at all inconsitent with scowcroft's
observations.
neither claim that cheney's personality changed. what scowcroft was
responding to was the lengths to which cheney is willing to go to achieve
his goals, which both the post and scowcroft report as 'principled,' at
least to cheney himself.
like so many other behaviors, including heroism and sadism, we really don't
know what we're capable of until we're placed in extreme circumstances.
scowcroft never saw cheney with so much power, and with such a powerful
excuse (i.e., 9/11 & terrorism) to use/abuse it. that's what has shocked
him about cheney.
there is just no need for your wondering why the post would put this story
together to make us all believe cheney has not changed; there is no
inconsistency in the facts from the post or from scowcroft. however, a
conspiracy such as you suggest really stretches credulity.
that being said, i ran across a reference yesterday to someone's analysis of
the post article that suggests it was heavily edited.
go here:
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/006337.html
and here:
http://www.correntewire.com/did_cheney_shoot_some_wapo_copy_editor_in_the_face
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