Cheney: I Choose Rush Limbaugh Over Colin Powell

[babylonsister]

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On 'Face The Nation' this a.m. Interview with Bob Schieffer.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/10/cheney-limbaugh-powell/

Cheney: As a Republican, I choose Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell.

Last week, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the Republican Party is in “deep trouble” because it is “getting smaller” and being led by far right polarizing figures. Specifically, he said that Rush Limbaugh “diminishes the party and intrudes or inserts into our public life a kind of nastiness that we would be better to do without.” Limbaugh then responded that Powell ought to “close the loop” and leave the Republican party instead of “claiming” to be interested in reforming it. Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked Cheney about the spat. Cheney said that he comes down squarely on the side of Limbaugh:

CHENEY: Well, if I had to choose — in terms of being a Republican — I’d go with Rush Limbaugh, I think. My take on it was that Colin had already left the party. I didn’t know he was still a Republican. <...>

SCHIEFFER: And you said you’d take Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell?

CHENEY: I would. Politically.

During the Bush administration, of course, Cheney and Powell often sparred over their differences on foreign policy. On the other hand, Cheney has long been a fervent admirer of Rush Limbaugh. In March, Cheney told CNN, “Rush is a good friend. I love him. … I think Rush is a good man and serves a very important purpose.”

[USAcitizen]

1. Cheney is a total right wing neocon opportunist

He ruined our country with his neocon war for profit. Torture, ignoring Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now he is on the news circuit. He ought to be arrested and sent to Gitmo and waterboarded.

[curiousdemo]

33. Two draft dodging chicken hawks, versus a

man who served in two wars. I choose the latter, end of conversation.

[olegramps]

39. Cheney is a facist. Plain and simple.

[empire we are]

44. This traitorous fuck

chooses a propagandist over a flawed patriot.

[Bette Noir]

2. As Keith Olbermann said to George Bush:

"Shut the hell up."

When asked by his network overlords why he had to say, "hell," Keith answered, "I couldn't say 'fuck.'"

Why do people still let Cheney have a mic? As previously mentioned, he should be on trial for war crimes.

[Cha]

41. The corporatemedia worships at the

altar of limpdick and the dick but they're actually doing the country a favor by exposing the drooling ramblings of said dick.

I bet Colin Powell is so glad he endorsed Obama over the continuing of the facist assholes.

[ejbr]

3. and there you have it... n/t

[RoccoR5955]

4. Dick Cheney, GO F%*K YOURSELF! n/t

[underpants]

5. Wooof! geez Dick that was slimey even for you. This is a giant slap in Colin's face

:spank: But then Powell has served his purpose for them. He went and read that thing they wrote in front of the UN and the whole world and the MSM ate it up.

Party over country. Loyalty is the only determinant as Suskind pointed out in "The Price of Loyalty" with Paul O'Neill.

[MindMatter]

8. Powell should follow Cheney's advice

He should disown those bastards, and start talking about everything he knows that will implicate them in war crimes. The Dems should grant immunity to Powell in exchange for his testimony.

[underpants]

10. I'm not holding my breath

As much as Powell sometimes has moments of clarity when the chips are down he always is "a good soldier" and does the work of those in power

Mai Lai
Iran-Contra
Iraq

Three times is not a coincidence in my opinion

[Puzzler]

6. At least he's being honest...

... I don't doubt for a second that Cheney agrees with the Rush "vision" of the GOP.

[MindMatter]

7. But would Limbaugh choose Cheney?

Cheney is one of the most reviled figures in American politics. And so is Limbaugh, of course. But the difference is that Limbaugh needs ratings. In most cases, it isn't terribly smart to align yourself with a person who is only about 15% popular. But that's pretty much who Limbaugh's audience is, so I guess there are a team. As Obama said yesterday, maybe it is time for Rush and the Dick to go to Iowa to make it official.

[Wapsie B]

9. This only reinforces the fact of Rush being the true leader of the gop.

There's no escaping it.

[scarface2004]

11. republikkkans suck!

may be put on endangered species list by end of month!!

[Cirque du So-What]

12. Draft-dodging chickenhawks flock together

This is the sneering face of today's Republican party.

[AlbertCat]

46. Draft-dodging chickenhawks flock together

Totally dude! Cheney "loves" ol' Rushbo! I'll bet they have a blast getting naked together and chopping up and snorting Oxy! And the real Amel Cheney can get! Hell yeah, man! Hillbilly Heroine Hubbies!

[Fridays Child]

13. He's so irrelevant that he needs to hitch his little wagon to a drug-addicted pedophile's star.

Good to know! :)

[avaistheone1]

14. I hope this is Cheney's last media appearance before he locked up in the Hague.

[nytemare]

15. Guess it didn't matter that Powell was a big part of winning the Gulf War

when Cheney was Sec. of Defense.

Rush had anal cysts, and Cheney had "more important things to do" during Vietnam. Birds of the same fucked up feather.

[cooolandrew]

16. Is Cheney really having a metldown here he'd choose a propagandist over a general who >

his administration hired. This is some far out stuff.

[Buzz Clik]

17. This just keeps getting better. We don't have to do anything but watch in wonder.

And the GOP has become a flesh eating bacterium that is consuming itself.

[AspenRose]

18. Who gives a shit who you "choose?" You aren't VP anymore!

Go away already.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

19. Even Bob Schieffer

seemed a bit taken aback at that insane comment.
Guess Cheney is celebrating "Happy Mother F____ers Day."

[wryter2000]

20. Keep it up

I just wish they'd piss off Powell enough that he'd tell everything he knew.

BTW, for your musical pleasure...When Will Colin Powell Write his Tell-all Book, by the Strokeland Superband

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBJ4WJXLhmE

[Jade Fox]

29. 'zactly!

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Headline . . .

DARTH VADER ENDORSES JABBA THE HUTT

[pam4water]

23. Bahahahaha

[libodem]

22. Skeezy old white fuck

[steven johnson]

24. Republican Neocons Have Never Given Up on the Bush/Wolfowitz/Rove Doctrines

The Bush/Wolfowitz/Rove Doctrines were based on delusions of grandeur about Republican America's ability to dominate the world through force and dirty tricks. Just as Karl Rove was aiming for a permanent Republican majority, the Neocons were looking at a permanent US dominance as the only superpower without any true multilateral cooperation.

Colin Powell violated the "if you're not for us, your're against us" tenent of Neocon Republicanism. "Preemption, rather than reaction" summarized the Bush Doctrine. Part of the Bush Doctrine was "you're either for us or against us."

Cheney's preference to Limbaugh's fauning Neocon loyalty reflects the 'black or white' world view that the Bushies lived by. They haven't learned anything.

The Wolfowitz Doctrine detailed in the National Security Strategy Document (National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction) promulgated by the junior Bush's administration, it promoted use of unilateral preemptive force and persuasion rather than honest multi-lateral cooperation.

Most people forget Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln waged an economic war against the South where slavery was something to be contained, not abolished, initially. Emancipation only occurred when black troops were the only way for the North to win the war.

Apparently millions continue to harbor the strange delusion that the Republican party is the party of free enterprise, and, at least since the New Deal, the party of conservatism. In fact, the party is and always has been the party of state capitalism. That, along with the powers and perks it provides its leaders, is the whole reason for its creation and continued existence. By state capitalism I mean a regime of highly concentrated private ownership, subsidized and protected by government. The Republican party has never, ever opposed any government interference in the free market or any government expenditure except those that might favour labour unions or threaten Big Business. Consider that for a long time it was the party of high tariffs – when high tariffs benefited Northern big capital and oppressed the South and most of the population.

The very name of the Republican party is a lie. The name was chosen when the party formed in the 1850s to suggest a likeness to the Jeffersonian Republicans of earlier history. This had a very slender plausibility. One of the main goals of the new party was "free soil" – preventing slavery (and Negroes) from existence in any territories, that is, future states.

Almost all current interpretations of the meaning of the Republican war against the South 1861–1865 come to rest on pretty phrases from Lincoln's speeches. If you look at primary sources, as historians used to do, you get a very different picture. In their private letters and sometimes in public speeches the Republican leaders reveal themselves to be just the ruthless villains that several previous generations of historians knew them to be. They boast about their intention to keep control of the government by any means, to keep the South captive for economic exploitation, sometimes about their intent to exterminate the Southern people.

Let us always come back to the fundamentals. The Republican party engineered and carried out a bloody war against Americans that revolutionized the basis on which our liberty had been built. They maintained a cold war for another decade, governing by force and fraud, unprecedented in American history. While in power they bribed, swindled and looted themselves to private wealth that still underpins many fortunes.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson20.html

[xiamiam]

25. just when i think i cant possible dislike him more...he proves me wrong..

evil incarnate...i hate the sob..and i dont hate anyone..not good for me or the planet..if he would just be jailed or go away, i could stop with this awful emotion...

[Necon-Be-Gone]

26. One way ticket

He needs to get a one way ticket to the Hague, surrender, and stand trial.

Cheney seems to forget what happened to Saddam Hussein.

[bleever]

27. To the Greatest! Cheney cuts off GOP's ties to sane people.

:thumbsup:

[tomm2thumbs]

28. I hope they fly off to Iowa together - they'd be a PERFECT couple

Please don't picture the wedding night if you haven't eaten yet.

[tomm2thumbs]

30. Cheney's ego is doing the Democrat endless favors - the White House is loving this

The idiot with the lowest public support WHILE in office is running around AFTER office exuding his thoughts on what should be done. Hmmm... sounds a little like he's recruiting FOR the Democrats. Sort of like how torture was supposed to help the U.S. but actually hurt the cause. He'll never learn.

Thank god for his idiocy - he's slowly lowering a knife into the throat of the GOP and doesn't even care because he ego needs to be fed - and feed it he will.

[ecstatic]

31. When is Fox gonna give Cheney his own show?

He's being interviewed every f*cking weekend and his comments are getting tremendous play. Just give him his own show so he can have something to do before prison.

[Joe Chi Minh]

32. Has he ever been considered a moderate kind of Republican? Shouldn't someone have a word

in his "shell-like" about stating the obvious, as if making an oracular pronouncement that would leave everyone stunned.

[Crowman1979]

34. They should call the G.O.P. the O.D.P.

The Old Dying Party! LOL

[freesqueeze]

35. What makes this dick think he's doing the choosing?

Rush is 100% in charge. 2% of America makes killer radio ratings but a miserable political party.



But, do you prefer Rush to Dick?

[Crowman1979]

36. Colin Powell should consider it a badge of honor to be rejected by Dick Cheney!

[Crowman1979]

37. Someone tell Dick to get back in his coffin!

[Mithreal]

38. Cheney should do the White House Correspondent's Dinner

who knew he was this funny?

[Cha]

40. I already knew this but this puts the dick

right in history's junk pile of drooling idiots.:silly::freak:

[hootinholler]

42. CHENEY: Yeah we took a trip to Costa Rica once.

He's a stand up guy I tell ya.

I can't wait to see this sick fuck on the witness stand.

-HOot

[LaPera]

43. "Boss" Limbaugh is indeed the head of the republican party.

[Liberal_Christian]

45. Powell endorsed the president because he -like a lot of americans- chose the lesser of two evils

McCain (bush 2.0) was offering the same nonsense and then some;

-MORE privatized medicine
-privatizing social security
-an Phil Graham induced economic plan that mirrored Herbert Hoover's
-more war

I'm not surprised that the man that represents the FALL of the republican party would much rather have Rush in it rather than Powell. Powell still has a conservative ideology but is against the shamelessness that Limbaugh touts on his show. Powell represents rationalism; Cheney's greatest enemy.

[rasputin1952]

47. Can't ask for much more...cheney, w/an approval rating lower

than gonorrhea, taking a pill-popping, bloated, hate-monger over a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State. No question here why the GOP has catapulted itself into the meatgrinder of failure...:D

[eirteacher]

48. Just let Dichead run his mouth.

Just let Dickhead run his mouth. The more he talks and says stupid stuff like he want's Limpball over a true hero like Colon Powell, the more people see how radicles the Republicans are. They kicked out Sen. Spector last week and now the same assholes are trying to run out Sen. McCain because he dose not support torture. They are pissed at Gov. Huntsman of Utah because he thinks Anti-Gay rights is hate motivated.
I say good. Let these blabber mouths talk their way into a hole.
McCain, Powell and Huntsman bring votes to the Democratic Party.

[MrSlayer]

49. What else would he say?

Rush on the same exact spot as Cheney politically. Powell let himself be used by those neo-con jerkoffs his whole life and has been discarded.