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Let's Put Cheney Out to Pasture

VP is a veritable font of nonsense

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted May 12, 2009 9:03 AM CDT

(Newser) – Isn’t it time we sent Dick Cheney back to Wyoming, found him a home “where the buffalo roam and there’s always room for one more crazy old coot down at the general store?” Eugene Robinson asks in the Washington Post. It’s no wonder the TV networks love him: “Unrestrained by protocol or objective reality, he’s pretty much guaranteed to say outrageous things.”

Cheney was again blasting President Obama for removing the Bush administration’s illegal terror policies—though, Robinson notes, he can’t actually prove that legal tactics wouldn’t have sufficed. Cheney went on to say he’d side with Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell—a bombastic radio talking head over a paragon of public service. “Cheney goes with the gasbag,” Robinson scoffs. Makes perfect sense. The buffalo are going to love this guy.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on CBS' "Face the Nation," Sunday in Washington. (CBS)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney returns a baseball after signing his autograph outside the CBS television studios in Washington, Sunday, May 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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For the final act of his too-long public career, Cheney seems to have decided to become an Old Faithful of self-serving nonsense. - Eugene Robinson

As far as he's concerned, issues have just one side — his — and anyone who disagrees must secretly wish to deliver our nation to al-Qaeda. - Eugene Robinson

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cornelison

May 12, 2009 9:21 AM CDT

Does it mean that Cheney's approval rating will be in the single digits? Please stay on TV, Cheney. You've become a huge gift to the Democrats. It looks like you won't be getting a Christmas card from the George Bush this year too.

jaguarj

May 12, 2009 9:18 AM CDT

Let's see here.....Jimmy, Bill, and Al? Your forgot the "Dick"!!!! The biggest dick of all times!!!!!

NxBigmouthery

May 12, 2009 9:07 AM CDT

It's a measure of the neocon' refusal to accept the lessons of history that Dick's so visible now. Usually when a political party has its ass handed to it in an election, the losers lock themselves away, lick their wounds, sharpen their knives and purge those responsible for the failure. Then, slowly...they rebuild. Dick's not allowing this. They're still yelping like wounded beasts, and while they allow the neocons such yelping room, they're effectively useless.

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