Cheney Fatigue Settles Over Some in GOP (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Cheney Fatigue Settles Over Some in GOP

By TOM RAUM
The Associated Press
Saturday, July 7, 2007; 12:49 PM

WASHINGTON -- Dick Cheney, who thrives on secrecy
while pulling the levers of power, is getting caught in
the glare of an unwelcome spotlight.

Once viewed as a sage and mentor to President Bush,
Cheney has approval ratings now that are as low as _
or lower _ than the president's. Recent national polls
have put them both in the high 20s.

Bush's decision to spare former Cheney aide I. Lewis
"Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison sentence has
focused new attention on the vice president and his
possible role in the commutation.

Cheney's relentless advocacy of the Iraq war, his push
to expand presidential authority and his hard-line
rhetoric toward North Korea and Iran are raising
concerns even among former loyalists now worried
about the GOP's chances in 2008.

It seems Cheney fatigue is settling in some Republican
circles.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070700564.html

[youngdem]

1. He hasn't been in the 20's since 2005.

He's consistently been in the teens. Even a Washington Post hit piece uses kid gloves.

Damn liberal media.

[gulliver]

2. Or Cheney fibromyalgia... I think it's Cheney cancer, though...

[ananda]

3. lysdexia

I've decided that BushCheney are dyslexic with numbers,

reading 29 percent as 92. ;-))

[DeadElephant_ORG]

4. do you remember after the '04 election...

Bush crowing about "I've got political capital and I intend to spend it." Well... it's spent!

[calimary]

8. Squandered. Like everything else he's run through and left in

empty, barren, smoldering ruins. You're as bankrupt in political currency as you are morally, george. And dick? You're just a dick.

[Peregrine Took]

5. Time for Cheeney to get out of Al Gore's old house.

[glitch]

6. Right on schedule. So, who will step in when he resigns? Hagel? Thompson?

I think they'll risk Thompson, he's pliable and not too strong-willed. The laziness is a plus. He won't mind being bossed around by Jebbie when he's picked as his vp running mate.

[Sparkly]

7. That headline!!

"Cheney Fatigue Settles Over Some in GOP" -- sounds like he emits some sort of toxic mold. :rofl:

[WCGreen]

9. CFS is threatening the very foundation of their party...

No one is immune to this plague ravaging the normally lock step my way or the highway GOP...

Is there a cure...

Or better yet, does anyone really want to revive people who have flat-lined in the brain wave department decades ago...

[Norrin Radd]

10. Liberalize??

Cheney has seen his influence wane with rank-and-file Republicans and even conservatives, once his most ardent supporters. They are uneasy about Cheney's signing onto Bush's attempt to liberalize immigration law; spread democracy in the Middle East, which they deride as "nation building"; the amassing of record budget deficits; and even Cheney's support for certain gay rights (a daughter, Mary, is openly lesbian).

[bread_and_roses]

11. Fatigue? Fatigue?? Is THAT an appropriate response to the destruction of an entire

Country, the death of who knows how many hundreds of thousands of its' civilians, the flouting of our Constitution, the secret, "privileged" meetings with his Corporata Cabal, the stealing of elections, the disenfranchisement and abandonment to death of thousands of our black brothers and sisters, the subversion of science and justice.....and everything else I've forgotten for the moment.

"Fatigue" is a morally depraved response, but then, what else can one expect?