Reid's Office: Cheney Showing "Signs Of Desperation"
This is getting really good. Here's the statement just out from Harry Reid spokesman Jim Manley on Veep Cheney's remarks today about Congressional Dems and Iraq:
Vice President Cheney should be the last person to lecture anyone on how leaders should make decisions.Leaders should make decisions based on facts and reality, two words that seem to be foreign to the Vice President
This is the same guy who said Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and that we would be greeted as liberators. And it's the same guy who continues to assert that Saddam Hussein had links to al Qaeda long after our own intelligence agency conclusively refuted this notion. To suggest he lacks credibility would be an understatement.
The Vice President's and others' attacks on those who disagree with their failed policies are signs of desperation. They are lashing out because they know the days are numbered for their failed strategy and that the American people and a bipartisan majority are determined to force this Administration to change course in Iraq.
Not backing off. What will David Broder say?
The demise of this administration will be a beautiful crash.
It's a shame that so many lives had to be lost before Congress finally got to step on the brakes (if you'll excuse my mixed metaphor).
April 24, 2007 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
David Broder will say that Reid exacerbates partisanship and will probably have to trot out yet another apology, which will bring Reid's apologies to 87,323 since January.
David Broder will then say that Cheney and Bush are about ready to face a comeback not seen since the heady days of Bill Clinton, and that Cheney is a strong, virile, and handsome man brimming with power.
And then David Broder will candidly admit in a just-between-us-girls tone that he once had dinner with Dick Cheney on the porch of a lovely historical cabin that the Cheneys had transported to a large ranch in Wyoming, and that after they had a few laughs and some pie, they went hunting, just the two of them, where Cheney shot a passing hiker in the face and buried the body under a pyre of rocks that Broder helped him build, and that Cheney then told Broder if he ever told anyone about this he would kill him, kill him dead, do you hear me? Now let's get back before the women start to wonder where we are.
And then David Broder will say that he likes pie.
April 24, 2007 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's the lives lost (and other costs) that cause the brakes to be applied. Any of the other countries under corporate occupation (Lagos and Indonesia I'm looking at you) roll along happily giving us their resources as long as local dissent remains quashed.
April 24, 2007 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Atrios:
Pretty much sums it up, no?.
Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code. -- SCOTUS that was...
April 24, 2007 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me, or does Dick look like he is in his last throes.
Huh huh huh, I said throes!
April 24, 2007 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, Reid warned them if they hit him hard, he will return the fires. Keep it going Sen Reid.
April 24, 2007 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
While it does seem to me politically right to be charging Bush-Cheney with desperation, my sense is that the charge really rings true here. They are increasingly seen as desperate and as buffoons by the broader public.
April 24, 2007 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just wrote to Reid, thanking him. Hope everone else does too.
April 24, 2007 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
the dean will cluctch his pearls just before he goes into full "lack of civility swoon."
April 24, 2007 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps we are beginning to see the last throes of the insurgency Cheney has promised us o'er these many years...
April 24, 2007 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very refreshing. Its about time Cheney has his foolish pronouncements shoved back down his throat.
The Right, and particularly the White House likes to make some kind of point that while things don't look too nicely in their favor at the moment, they'll be shown to be right in the long run. This statement by Reid goes a long way toward forcing the Right to admit they are in fact Wrong.
-Dave Adams-
April 24, 2007 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is time for the blogshere to do some investigative reporting on Broder and the like.
It’s pretty clear that the Bushies/necons will do anything to advance their cause, protect themselves and manipulate public opinion.
Broder is either being paid off financially or blackmailed. Cayman Island bank accounts, junkets, or compromising personal information? All of the above?
April 24, 2007 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Has anyone else noticed how the coverage of this by the media in terms of the soundbites we hear is biased?
Other than at this site, no one is giving Reid's remarks full coverage.
They do the Cheney remarks about this being partisan and for political advantage and they roll the tape with Bush saying it is all political on the Democrats parts.
However, when it comes to Reid, all we get are his first sentences, that the President has unleashed his attack dog. Vice President Cheney.
This makes Reid and the Dems should like they are engaging in a personal attack and it sounds really partisan.
They do not cover the part where Reid says that Cheney has no credibility which is important. They don't do the soundbites where he talks about all the stuff those two, and especially Cheney have been wrong.
It is this type of biased coverage that keeps Dems on the defense constantly responding to how the GOP frames the issues.
April 25, 2007 7:30 AM | Reply | Permalink