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White House Zings Cheney:
'I Guess Rush Was Busy'

Mar 17, 2009 7:22 AM CDT

White House Zings Cheney: 'I Guess Rush Was Busy'

Spokesman hits back at ex-VP on economy, security

(Newser) - The Obama administration has no intention of sitting still and taking it from a grumpy Dick Cheney, who sounded complaints with the administration on CNN on Sunday. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs whacked right back at the former VP yesterday, reports the Washington Post: “I guess Rush Limbaugh...

Cheney: Obama
Making US Less Safe

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Mar 15, 2009 9:57 AM CDT

Cheney: Obama Making US Less Safe

Former VP slams prez for quashing 'essential' Bush policies

(Newser) - President Obama "is making some choices that will in fact raise the risk to the American people of an attack," former VP Dick Cheney charged today. Appearing relaxed and slimmer on CNN’s State of the Union, Cheney upbraided Obama for revising the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies,...

Cheney Furious at Bush
for Not Pardoning Libby

Feb 17, 2009 9:26 AM CST

Cheney Furious at Bush for Not Pardoning Libby

Ex-VP pushed prez for reprieve 'til he left DC

(Newser) - Dick Cheney is furious that President Bush wouldn’t listen when he repeatedly pushed for a last-minute pardon for Scooter Libby, the New York Daily News reports. The ex-VP “went to the mat and came back and back and back at Bush” for a full pardon, said one close...

Stimulus Will Hit Fast: Axelrod

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Feb 15, 2009 11:16 AM CST

Stimulus Will Hit Fast: Axelrod

Obama aide defends Geithner; Graham: country 'screwed' if this is bipartisanship

(Newser) - Calling Tim Geithner’s economic rescue plan “a very thoughtful strategy,” David Axelrod said the economic stimulus will be felt soon and defended the treasury secretary today on NBC’s Meet the Press. President Obama’s senior adviser said Wall Street’s expectations were unrealistic and that the...

No Misunderestimating
Ferrell as Dubya

THEATER REVIEW

Feb 6, 2009 1:05 PM CST

No Misunderestimating Ferrell as Dubya

(Newser) - It’s not quite a landslide, but critics mainly agree that Will Ferrell gets his mission accomplished in lampooning the 43rd president with his Broadway show, You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush. Though Saturday Night Live viewers will see the “retread” in Ferrell’s...

'Sleazy' Cheney Has
No Right to Talk Terror

OPINION

Feb 4, 2009 1:56 PM CST

'Sleazy' Cheney Has No Right to Talk Terror

(Newser) - Dick Cheney’s claim that a terrorist attack is more likely during an Obama administration “is sleazy in the extreme,” Joe Klein writes for Time. Even if you can “leave aside the fact”—which Klein cannot—“that if Dick Cheney and his alleged boss had...

Cheney: Soft Obama Makes Terror Attack More Likely

Feb 4, 2009 9:31 AM CST

Cheney: Soft Obama Makes Terror Attack More Likely

Says fighting extremists 'a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business'

(Newser) - Dick Cheney thinks there’s a “high probability” terrorists will attack the US with a biological or nuclear weapon, and that Barack Obama’s policies will likely only increase those odds. Fighting terrorism is “a tough mean, dirty, nasty business,” the former vice president told Politico. “...

Veep's 'Lair'
Reappears
on Google

Jan 26, 2009 1:11 PM CST

Veep's 'Lair' Reappears on Google

Image was blurred during Bush years

(Newser) - When Dick Cheney was vice-president, his official residence was blurred on Google Maps. But the week Joe Biden moved in, the Naval Observatory suddenly became visible, Gawker reports. Many had noticed the isolated pixelation of Cheney’s address, including Maureen Dowd: “You can view satellite photos of the White...

Cheney Says Bush Erred
in Not Pardoning Libby

Jan 22, 2009 5:15 PM CST

Cheney Says Bush Erred in Not Pardoning Libby

(Newser) - Dick Cheney believes disgraced former chief of staff Scooter Libby, convicted in the CIA leak investigation, deserved a pardon, the Weekly Standard reports. “He was the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice,” the former vice president said. “Obviously, I disagree with President Bush.” Bush’s...

Biden Is 47th Vice President

Jan 20, 2009 10:59 AM CST

Biden Is 47th Vice President

Longtime Del. senator sworn in at inauguration

(Newser) - Joe Biden has assumed the office of vice president of the United States, the Washington Post reports. On the steps of the Capitol, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens swore in the longtime Delaware senator, who vowed to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all...

Judge:
Cheney Won't
Dump Records

Jan 20, 2009 8:00 AM CST

Judge: Cheney Won't Dump Records

Accepts aide's word that docs will go safely to Archives

(Newser) - A federal judge yesterday rejected historians’ and nonprofits’ complaint that Vice President Dick Cheney planned to illegally dump some of his papers, the Washington Post reports. The judge instead took the word of a White House aide that the documents would go to the National Archives as required. The ruling...

Cheney Hurts Back, Will Cruise Inaugural in Wheelchair

Jan 20, 2009 5:58 AM CST

Cheney Hurts Back, Will Cruise Inaugural in Wheelchair

VP was moving boxes into new home

(Newser) - Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back while moving boxes and will be in a wheelchair for today's inauguration ceremony. The White House said that the outgoing vice president was helping move into his new home in McLean, Va., when he injured himself. Said Dana Perino, on her last...

Biden Plans to Shrink VP Power

Interview

Jan 15, 2009 10:05 AM CST

Biden Plans to Shrink VP Power

But he'll be 'the guy in the room'

(Newser) - Most vice presidents enter office wanting to grab power and make a name for themselves. Not Joe Biden. The VP-elect is determined to roll back Dick Cheney’s massive power grab, he tells the New York Times. Will that make him less effective? “The only value of power is...

Bush Can Teach
Obama What
Not to Do:
Woodward

OPINION

Jan 15, 2009 9:49 AM CST

Bush Can Teach Obama What Not to Do: Woodward

Woodward has seen all the mistakes and lived to tell about it

(Newser) - George W. Bush’s presidency could teach Barack Obama many lessons—about what not to do. Bob Woodward lays out 10 of them in today’s Washington Post:

"Presidents need to draw people out and make sure bad news makes it to the Oval Office": Bush went into Iraq

...

Libby Hasn't Asked to Be Pardoned

OPINION

Jan 14, 2009 12:30 PM CST

Libby Hasn't Asked to Be Pardoned

Supporters look to Cheney to sway Bush in final week

(Newser) - President Bush has less than a week to pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby for his role in the CIA leak case, and at this point it’s unclear if he will, writes Byron York for the National Review. Dick Cheney's former chief of staff hasn't applied for one through the...

Obama Could
Learn a Lot
From Cheney

OPINION

Jan 13, 2009 9:17 AM CST

Obama Could Learn a Lot From Cheney

VP wasn't afraid to sacrifice popularity to keep country safe

(Newser) - Dick Cheney's sub-Darth Vader approval levels make him an unlikely role model for Barack Obama but the president-elect could learn a lot from what made Cheney so unpopular in the first place, writes William McGurn in the Wall Street Journal. Cheney is disliked because he made some tough calls to...

Cheney Deserves
Kick in the Shins: Dowd

opinion

Jan 11, 2009 6:45 AM CST

Cheney Deserves Kick in the Shins: Dowd

'Vice is still on top'

(Newser) - Vice President Dick Cheney's guiding principle was "a theory of constitutional thuggishness" that set the tone for the administration's agenda—but he's refusing to take the blame for anything, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. His insistence that he never called the shots, despite his "Darth...

Cheney Says Harsh Interrogations Kept US Safe

Jan 7, 2009 7:54 PM CST

Cheney Says Harsh Interrogations Kept US Safe

(Newser) - Dick Cheney asserted today that "we don't torture" but said the limited use of "enhanced interrogation" such as waterboarding yielded information that helped fend off terror attacks, the Washington Examiner reports. Cheney told a roundtable of conservative journalists that the administration doesn't get enough credit for "what...

Bush Creates Massive
Marine Protection Area

Jan 6, 2009 7:12 AM CST

Bush Creates Massive Marine Protection Area

US will protect huge ocean area

(Newser) - In a move that puts his conservation record on par with some of the country’s greenest leaders, President Bush today created three marine national monuments that will protect 195,280 square miles of vulnerable island and ocean ecosystems in the Pacific, the Washington Post reports. The announcement is in...

Cheney Wasn't Puppetmaster, Say Bush Aides

Jan 2, 2009 5:32 AM CST

Cheney Wasn't Puppetmaster, Say Bush Aides

Members of inner circle rip beliefs about presidency as 'hooey'

(Newser) - Popular beliefs about the Bush presidency are way off the mark, a pair of top advisers who served throughout the administration tell the Washington Post. The idea that Vice President Dick Cheney wielded unprecedented power and pulled the strings on Bush's foreign policy is "just hooey," said Chief...