Dick Cheney Still Thinks He's A Big Wheel.

I thought this Dick said he was going to spend time hunting, fishing and working on his memoirs when his time was (thankfully) up?

This item from Newser.com:

Former vice presidents lose their Secret Service protection 6 months after leaving office, but Dick Cheney is no ordinary former vice president. In a first, his protection will be extended for an indefinite period, CNN reports. Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano signed off on the move, which was reportedly requested by Cheney. It's not due to any specific threats but rather to his continued high profile, one official said.

According to USA Today, "the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the extra protection would cost about $4 million in fiscal year 2009."

And CBS News says that "Cheney is expected to request another extension when this one runs out. He has been in the news recently for his possible role in a decision to conceal a secret CIA antiterrorism program from Congress."

Hey, Dick: the only money I'd like to see Uncle Sam spend on you is to pay for your prosecution on war crimes.

The Home Of The Free & The Land Of The Torturing VPs.

Defending His Dishonorable Service.

Ex-Vice Presidents Say The Most Dickish Things.

You Can Fool 37 To 41% Of The People All Of The Time.

From CNN:

The same day Dick Cheney delivered  a major speech on the battle against terrorism, a new national poll suggests that favorable opinions of the former vice president are on the rise.

But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Wednesday morning, indicates that a majority of Americans still have an unfavorable opinion of Cheney.

Fifty-five percent of people questioned in the poll say they have an unfavorable opinion of the former vice president. Thirty-seven percent say they have a favorable opinion of Cheney, up eight points from January when he left office.

In the past two months the former vice president has become a frequent critic of the new Administration in numerous national media interviews.

“Is Cheney’s uptick due to his visibility as one of the most outspoken critics of the Obama administration?  Almost certainly not,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Former President George W. Bush's favorable rating rose six points in that same time period, and Bush has not given a single public speech since he left office.”

The poll suggests that 41 percent of Americans hold a favorable opinion of the former president, with 57 percent viewing him unfavorably.

What have I learned from this poll? Nothing. I already knew that at least 37% and possibly as many as 41% of Americans are knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing dipshits.

A Dick Does "Face The Nation."

Thug Life.

     Dick Cheney seems to be everywhere these days. The former vice president, who was often said to be in an "undisclosed location" during his tenure as apparent puppetmaster to his simpleton boss, is now overexposed and busy bashing Barack Obama, claiming that the president is endangering our lives while simultaneously defending his own indefensible torture fetish.

     Paul Abrams has a great piece on HuffPo today that focuses on the cynical life trajectory of this historically horrid, far-right charlatan. Abrams reminds us of the Dick who sought and secured 5 deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam, yet who became a bloodthristy, neocon warmonger, always eager to send other people's children into dubious conflicts far and wide. Then there's the Dick who ran Halliburton and who signed off on its overseas subsidiary KBR's business dealings with Iran and Iraq, which were illegal under US law. Hey! Offshore it! 

     Dicks always know how to game the system.

     Abrams shows us the Dick who outed CIA operative Valerie Plame for political reasons. And then we see the Dick who as a red-meat, rock-ribbed, reactionary Republican congressman voted against banning plastic guns. The all-powerful NRA--they say, "jump," the GOP asks, "how high?"--mustered only 3 votes in the entire House of Representatives, and this Dick's was one of them. Imagine the chaos in airports pre-and-post-9/11 had this less-than-sharp-shooter's wish come true. Security? We don't need no stinkin' security! Security systems? Hell, no! Manual pat-downs! Open all those suitcases! We have the right to carry plastic guns!   

     What a Dick. 

     Dick Cheney seems to be everywhere these days. And listening to him prattle on in his incoherent, conspiratorial rumble while considering his career arc is torture of the most cruel and unusual kind. 

     (Click here to see Maureen Dowd's take on the same subject.)

Dick.

The Most Famous Dick.

Same Old Song & Dance.

"Experience Is Simply The Name We Give Our Mistakes."

Thanks to Oscar Wilde for the quote, and thanks for nothing to The Dick and The Dickier.

It's Time Once Again For "What A Dick!"

Soldier Of Misfortune.

From the AP:

Don't blame the Bush administration for all the country's economic problems.

That's the message from former Vice President Dick Cheney.

President Barack Obama constantly talks about the enormous economic troubles that he inherited when he took office in January. Cheney agrees that Obama did indeed came into power amid very difficult economic circumstances.

But Cheney says he doesn't think the Bush administration can be blamed for creating the economic woes. Cheney says it's a global financial problem. He says the idea that fault can assigned to the previous administration is "interesting rhetoric" but he doesn't think people care about that.

Cheney spoke on CNN's "State of the Union."

This from the same maniac whose entire career has been based on imperialism, with the U.S. at the absolute center of all things global.

So, Dick, in this one little case the United States and its deregulated, "don't ask, don't tell" economic policies were innocent bystanders rather than leaders, huh?

It's OK with us if you just fade the f*** away.

I Think We Already Know Who Put The "Ass" In "Assassin."

Was this what that Dick was plotting during all that time in his undisclosed bunker? 

From MinnPost.com:

At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.”

Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet.

In an email exchange afterward, Hersh said that his statements were “an honest response to a question” from the event’s moderator, U of M Political Scientist Larry Jacobs and “not something I wanted to dwell about in public.”

Hersh didn’t take back the statements, which he said arise from reporting he is doing for a book, but that it might be a year or two before he has what he needs on the topic to be “effective...that is, empirical, for even the most skeptical.”

Read more here, and--Hey!--let's get a special prosecutor assigned to look into these bastards, OK?