I paraphrase, of course. However, this whole interview seems like a Freudian analysis waiting to happen. The Politico:
Vice President Cheney warned in an interview Wednesday that a premature withdrawal from Iraq would invite “further attacks” against the United States and said he has been surprised by the weakness of the Democratic Congress.
Most striking were his virtually taunting remarks of two men he described as friends from his own days in the House: Democratic Reps. John Dingell (Mich.) and John P. Murtha (Pa.).
In a 40-minute interview with Politico, he scoffed at the idea of two men who spent years accruing power showing so much deference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the big spending and energy debates of the year.
Murtha “and the other senior leaders … march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker,” Cheney said. “I’m trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn’t have happened.”
But his implication was clear: When asked if these men had lost their spines, he responded, “They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.”
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), who as Democratic Caucus Chair is the party’s fourth-ranking House leader, replied: “Some of us were surprised that the president didn’t have a bigger stick when he could have stood up to Dick Cheney.”
Bigger sticks??? My goodness, we have devolved into governing the country by pissing contests. And Dick (your choice of nickname is very revealing in this context), it appears you have some serious issues with women in authority positions.
When asked for his response, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid said, “Dingell and Murtha still carry very big sticks.” Um, okay. I think this whole analogy is starting to creep me out.
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Yeah, this coming form the guy who did the tuck dance everytime his chance came up to serve in Vietnam.
I can name half a dozen Dems that have bigger conhones than this POS.
Yip, it all comes down to being a man.
You gotta’ be tough. You gotta kick ass.
Cohones*
And imagine. taking orders from Nancy Pelosi. Taking orders from a WOMAN.
What kind of man does that?
How big a stick does it take to dodge a draft five times?
Stand by ur’ man!
Doop do waaaaaa
In his dementia, dick obsesses on things of his that dont work that used to. Hence is obsession with guns and junior high locker room humor. He’s just a big useless blob, that can no longer perform.
Does a draft doger with a gay daughter really want to attack Murtha’s Masculinity?
How ironic. Cheney engaged in a literal dick-waving contest.
Cheney should know about premature withdrawl. At his age and health, I doubt he is all that familliar with insertion anymore…..
Naving the name DICK does not make you a man. In this case it just makes you a DICK!
Dickhead Cheney should shut the fuck up and begin preparing for his defense when he is arrested for war crimes among other things.
Well, if there’s anyone you can trust to be obsessing about fellow politicians’ penises, that is, when they’re not obsessing about under-age subordinates’ penises, it’s Republicans. (And of course devout moralizing Evangelical preachers, but that’s another matter.)
I’m sure we all remember how many times Dennis Hastert bludgeoned Tom Delay with his massive stick.
Thanks cheney but we can bash our own. WE are smart and honest enough to say so when our reps screw up. The problem here is that the ones cheney is bashing are trying to stop a war with 70% of the people supporting them. What is his party’s excuse for their lips being sealed to bush ass?
And this from a guy with a 3 foot long vagina.
Hey Dick, “Go Cheney Yourself”!
i hope and pray Kucinich succeeds in Impeaching this traitorous War Criminal, it would serve him right for his dirty bloody oil profiteering based on lies and conspiracies to defraud our nation and murder millions of innocent human beings.
Can you say “Guilty”?
Cheney may be a psycho…but what can you say about Reid, who accepts Cheney’s frame and then argues stick size!!!
ask Dick and Karl to testify under oath about their little escapades in the white house with Jack Abramoff and Jeff Gannon/Guckert.
Or are you going to go with the Larry “Wide Stance” Craig approach and deny it ever happened?
I would just like to say penis and vagina.
Hey Dick! Any more brilliant Ideas Dick? - song and images by thinking blue and peanut - Impeach Cheney first - from Guantanimo and Torture to spying on Americans … this guy who avoided Vietnam is the ultimate chickenhawk. I hope Murtha laughs at him then lets him have it.
KO is having a “Special Comment” tonight.
Well, Mr Cheney, if we’re going to use the offensive logic of the frathouse or the lodge, here’s another:
Maybe the reason the Republican house leadership would never capitulate to a woman is that they are all, to a man, immune to a woman’s charms?
;)
LibertyLover @ 4:
cojones….
sharkcellar @ 22:
Feel better?
Go fuck yourself, Cheney.
Impeach this pustule.
I actually have to agree with Cheney on his two major points. I, too, have been surprised at the weakness of this Congress, and I think they show far too much deference to Pelosi’s opinion.
I mean, Cheney really should’ve been thrown in jail by now.
Dickula strikes again.
Five! Five draft deferments. Ha, ha, haaaaaa!
- The Count
Go fuck yourself, cheney - you are a murderous war criminal who deserves to suffer as much as those you have murdered. Why doesn’t your mechanical heart stop already?
Ya know his pacemaker god, please please make dick walk into a room full of microwaves at the pentagon. make them all, all of them knock each other into oblivion with their big sticks. this is a dream on caffeine, a busy meaningless mall with no exits, no point no ground no windows with people going up and down getting more stuff. always more stuff. cars. buy more cars. who buys these cars, fuck if we know. murder is normal. shitting where you eat is normal. making circular sentences. being sociopathic yet religious is normal. going into countries and deliberately cock-fighting one nation against another so they’ll destroy each other so they can steal their resources. to poison land for thousands of years and ruin bloodlines forever. to cause so much grief so fast and profoundly people have lost the soul to speak. to steal from your own people from so many sides they are dizzy and disoriented from everything turned inside out and against them they are the new enemy.
Just oh…….fuck. where is a giant meteor when we need it the most.
Okay… anyone with a first name Dick should not throw those stones!!!
I’m guessing Cheney’s a Viagra-boy given all his cardiovascular problems (and the ogre of a wife he’s got), so it’s no surprise he’s fixated with the male member. Maybe he’s had extensive conversations with Larry Craig about this in the mens’ room?
Any plan to mention the destroyed CIA torture tapes on this blog?
Great, even the VP is challenging the DNC leadership.
If the DNC leadership will not challenge the VP, why not?
How far will the VP be able to go before the DNC leadership dares to assert its power? There’s nothing stopping the VP from doing what he wants: Impeachment is off the table.
Let the VP rip into the DNC leadership. They deserve it. They’ve been lazy, and have not confronted the VP.
What took so long, Mr. VP to challenge the DNC leadership?
Just for the record; Cheney is the worst president this country has ever had.
I wonder if he thinks Jeff Gannon carries a big enough stick? What a Dick Head. I hope he goes to jail or dies.
DICK shootem in the face while I’m hammered out of my mind…and waits till the next day to call the cops(home owner next door)…….and his hammered buddy says…it’s ok.it’s not a big deal
“the water is cold”
“deep, too”
This feud between Murtha and Cheney has gone on long enough. They should sit down and trade war stories … oh that’s right.
The “big stick” talk is not Freudian at all you silly mooks ;) It’s a reference to Teddy Roosevelt’s saying, “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”
But then again I doubt Cheney would have reference it if he’d realized Roosevelt used the saying to describe a called bluff.
Liar@36, all we know is that this metasticising cancer will continue to eat it’s host for another 13 months. Conyers is exercising ‘patience’ by which time we can enjoy a virtual hell on earth.
Maybe the dem’s should pop a couple beers then go shoot their friend in the face.That sure would show a big stick.Must have been a real man ,by this theory ,who pumped three shots into TILLMAN’S face.
How many Germans now admit they supported the nazis and I can’t wait for the day in our country,when nobody will admit to ever being a republican.
“Bigger sticks??? My goodness, we have devolved into governing the country by pissing contests”
Bigger sticks, growing balls, what’s the goddamned difference?
This is the rhetoric of a culture stuck in basement (or the mezzanine).
Cheney would have the Statute of Liberty decked out in gold nipple rings if he thought it would offend enough people.
zip. PLOP.
I LOVE these “civil” discussions!
crazytown @ 43:
One man’s “patience” is a lady’s “malfeasance”.
mudshark @ 26:
TY! It’s later than I think… my fongers won’t work…
:lol:
KO’s special comment was…….whew!man o man….if I was him,I’d be looking over my shoulder.
LibertyLover @ 48:
LOL….oh yeah….been there.
Murtha’s stick curves to the right most of the time.
The good ol’ usa… where all the wrong faces get blown off.
Cheney’s playing the game of, “Only real men would have problems with legislation.” This is a trick to get the DNC to say, “Hay, we can focus on legislation”. Cheney’s doing this to get the DNC to “prove” that they will not get distracted by an impeachment investigation. Only clowns would fall for it. Oh, that’s right: DNC clowns are falling for it.
The more media energy-time on this, less time on impeachment investigation. Yes, that’s the legal streategy: Do what they have to ensure the pardon-option remains on the table. Dissuade the Congress from spending any time on any impeachment proceedings.
It’s working. The GOP, despite “losing” the 2006 election, can still get the DNC to react to this childish non-sense. DNC is being played for the fool it is.
I don’t understand why the GOP doesn’t accept what VP is saying, “Yes, MR. VP, you’re right: the DNC leadership is awful. Let’s challenge the DNC leadership to make way for new DNC leadership.” The DNC will not change, and stick with the DNC leaders who refuse to challenge the VP.
See how that works? Even though you’re in the minority, get the majority to not assert power. DNC inaction in 2007 same as a GOP victory in 2006. Yes, the GOP may have lost the election, but it still controls both Houses of Congress: Congress is reacting to the GOP agenda of “not enforce the Constitution” and “distract attention from crimes with calls that the DNC focus on legislation.”
Bush & Cheney’s tactics: (1) a rapid thrust into an unprepared territory (2) a quick climax (mission accomplished) (3) cease all productive effort without actually withdrawing. Now you know why Iraq feels like it has been screwed, but left unsatisfied. (Laura and Lynn could have predicted this!)
The good ol’ usa….where figures of speech are suck the life out of us.
(make it end, make it end)
There could be a very simple, very easy response to all this:
“The Vice President is a man who has been wrong every step of the way since he took office. Wrong about WMD. Wrong about protecting this country. This is just another case of the Vice President being wrong.”
Paul in LA @ 45: