Comments on: Dick Cheney dies at 84

By: Cappy

Cappy — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:10:34 +0000

Killing terrorists is good.
Dick Cheney killed terrorists.
Dick Cheney was good.

By: Paul S.

Paul S. — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:45:39 +0000

Perhaps my strongest memory of Dick Cheney is the way he calmly and easily mopped the flippin floor with John Edwards in a VP debate.

His more recently expressed opinions are unfortunate and, to some extent, sour my opinion of him.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:26:45 +0000

Cheney redefined gun control and he proved the old adage ” Blood is thicker than water”.
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Not everyone’s blood.
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The Federal Election Commission has a database of people’s contribution to political campaigns and political action committees. Not sure how complete the database is; it has entries going back to 1980. Political contributions by Richard Bruce Cheney, his wife, his daughters, and his son-in-law are all noted in the database, though not as many as you might wager. Between them, Richard Cheney and his daughter have run for federal office 11x since 1980. Those of their proximate relations alive for some portion of that period have included his mother and father, his brother, his sister, his wife’s brothers, and his wife’s three nieces (Lizard’s only 1st cousins). That adds up to nine people. Seven of the nine are absent from the database. Lynne Cheney’s brother is recorded as having given $50 to the Republican National Committee in 2008, a year when neither his b-i-l nor his niece were on the ballot. Lynne Cheney has a niece living in suburban Minneapolis; she’s some sort of insurance executive and has given quite a scrum of contributions, nearly all of them to her company’s PAC and not one to her cousin running for office. Lizard put out an embarrassing commercial during one of her campaigns which had her kids reciting their family history in Wyoming (because, well, Lizard has scant history as a palpable resident herself). Well…

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:47:05 +0000

Cheney redefined gun control and he proved the old adage ” Blood is thicker than water”.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:47:12 +0000

NeverTrump is a Capitol Hill / K Street / Acela corridor phenomenon. It’s promoters aren’t talking straight with anyone. The complaints are improvisations.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:45:09 +0000

Looking at a few other sites I frequent, I see the remarks on Cheney are repellent. Mike Royko used to say we live in the Age of the Jerk. Yep.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:37:36 +0000

“ In his last few years he ended up a NeverTrumper who defended his daughter and endorsed Kamala Harris – an act I doubt helped her.”

Indeed. It’s a if the Bushies and Cheney simply resented Trump’s successes….

Has anyone read a coherent fact-based critique of Trump by establishment Pubbies that wasn’t (merely, amazingly!) a cry against his style?

I mean, it’s not like the National Review crowd hasn’t had enough time and space to give us a compelling tale— and if there is one, who has?

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:29:58 +0000

There is considerable room for improvement in the level of public order and economic dynamism in Iraq. I gather the people kvetching about ‘nation building’ would prefer Uday or Qusay to Iraq’s parliamentary politicians.
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As for Afghanistan, somehow the U.S. military managed to arm and train and armed force that had no cohesion and could not function without air support supplied by foreigners. I don’t think the problem there was ‘the nation’ or the lack of it.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:17:29 +0000

As with Bush jr. I once supported Chaney. His refusal to learn from Iraq that a culture must be compatible for a representative democracy to be successfully ‘grafted’ onto that society was an indication that pride was foremost in him. He simply couldn’t acknowledge that however sincere his beliefs, he’d erred. Then, his refusal to see that, with first Hillary and then Harris, there really was no alternative to a braggadocios Trump, effectively led to again choosing pride over country. Sad.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:08:34 +0000

RIP.