Comments on: What Took You So Long, Dick?

By: Rudi

Rudi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:05:55 +0000

The only example I can find is one lone dove, Ron Paul.

2. Republican Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina
3. Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland
4. Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa
5. Republican Congressman John J. Duncan of Tennessee
6. Republican Congressman John N. Hostettler of Indiana

There are a few more dissident Iraq Republicans...

By: JeffersonDavis

JeffersonDavis — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:32:39 +0000

"People need to work a little harder at differentiating between reflexive partisan attacks and well-deserved negative feedback"

Granted.

Now show me where your "well-deserved negative feedback" included Republicans. The only example I can find is one lone dove, Ron Paul. Other than that, it was a consistent PARTISAN attack from the Democrats, exactly like that above with Cheney and others on the GOP side.

Well-deserving feedback would (or should) come from both sides. But in our present hyperpartisan mess, that doesn't always happen.

By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:05:34 +0000

Of course Bush was heavily criticized. He earned it (with the help of people like Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, etc.). People need to work a little harder at differentiating between reflexive partisan attacks and well-deserved negative feedback. Unfortunately, the Bush apologists (even with the painfully obvious benefits of hindsight) still have trouble extracting themselves from the false equivalence arguments.

By: JeffersonDavis

JeffersonDavis — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:11:45 +0000

"Show where a Demo attacked W during the ShoeBomber incident"

So you're just limiting it to THAT particular terrorist attack?

How about the constant attacks from the left after September 11th? These attacks (small in the beginning because they would lose vast appeal due to the raging patriotic surge and support of Bush) ended in the 9/11 commission suggestions. These suggestions (although mostly a good thing) were sidebarred with democrat jabs at Bush and his cowboy ways.

This being said, I still think that President Obama deserves no slack for this unless he fails to react. I'm confident that he will react. If it's not fast enough for Cheney, Dick, then tough! Cheney needs to shut up.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:24:36 +0000

Show where a Demo attacked W during the ShoeBomber incident…

By: Patrick E

Patrick E — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:21:51 +0000

I'm no fan of Cheney but this implied myth that no Democrat ever attacked Bush is ridiculous

By: dduck12

dduck12 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:43:32 +0000

Maybe he was busy in Hawaii trying to set up a hunting party with O. Or, maybe he just took his time as that is the new norm (perhaps).

By: GreenDreams

GreenDreams — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:34:57 +0000

And people are still listening to the disgraced former VP because....???

Apparently, he speaks for a largish group of Obama-haters that is not unrepresented among our commenters here.

Good jab by the White House today: "it is telling that Vice President Cheney and others seem to be more focused on criticizing the Administration than condemning the attackers."

"To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is focused on action. Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the President."

By: mlhradio

mlhradio — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:31:27 +0000

And people are still listening to the disgraced former VP because….???

By: Zzzzz

Zzzzz — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:17:12 +0000

Dick Cheney is a disgrace.