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Entries Tagged as 'Dick Cheney'

Roundup: Cannibal Cane Toad Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 9th, 2007 at 11:03 am

John Conyers tells it like it T-I-Is: Conyers says Bush spared Libby from jail to keep him from singing. This is patently obvious to just about everyone, but of course the White House immediately called the charge “ridiculous and baseless.” Which allows it to join the distinguished list of other ideas the administration considers “ridiculous […]

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Ceci N’est Pas Une Vice President

Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 2nd, 2007 at 5:27 am

The award for the best Cheney post of the past week goes to Bob Harris, hands down.
It starts out good:
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the last six and a half years would make a lot more sense if the GOP were actually performing a sophisticated Dada art exhibition.
This Cheney character would […]

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Roundup: Still Life with Salmon Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 28th, 2007 at 4:33 am

POLITICS: The Washington Post brings us the fascinating story of how Cheney’s quest to undermine environmental science for political purposes led to a humongous pile of rotting dead fish. “… Because of Cheney’s intervention, the government reversed itself and let the water flow in time to save the 2002 growing season, declaring that there was […]

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The Cheney Presidency

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 28th, 2007 at 3:20 am

Via Tom Tomorrow, Digby once again displays her talent for perfectly articulating what the rest of us are thinking:
I know that I sound like a character in an Oliver Stone movie, (”one pristine bullet? That dog don’t hunt!” ) but I have never been sanguine about the fact that all the big money boyz and […]

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