{"id":2126,"date":"2007-04-10T05:35:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/and-you-thought-i-was-intemperate\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T21:35:54","slug":"and-you-thought-i-was-intemperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/and-you-thought-i-was-intemperate\/","title":{"rendered":"And You Thought I Was Intemperate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Froomkin – Cheney Sticks to His Delusions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s not a coincidence that Cheney was talking to Limbaugh yesterday. The show has been one of Cheney’s favorite venues.<\/p>\n

As I wrote in my January 29 column, The Unraveling of Dick Cheney, Cheney is increasingly out of touch with reality<\/strong>. He seems to think that by asserting things that are simply untrue, he can make others believe they are so.<\/p>\n

In Limbaughland, he’s right.<\/p>\n

In Limbaughland, not only were Saddam and Al Qaeda linked but — more significantly — liberals hate America.<\/strong> In Limbaughland, Cheney can say a lot simply by failing to disagree with his host’s assertions.<\/p>\n

Consider a few of yesterday’s exchanges.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh was complaining to Cheney about how the Democrats seem to be primarily motivated by a desire “to make sure we come home defeated.”<\/strong> [mjh: asshole.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Limbaugh: “Can you share with us whether or not you understand [Democrat’s] devotion, or their seeming allegiance to the concept of U.S. defeat?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Cheney: “I can’t.” …<\/p>\n

Limbaugh called [Sam “Swift Boat”] Fox “a great American” and praised the White House for making an end-run around Democratic opposition.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh: “This is the kind of move that garners a lot of support from the people in the country. This shows the administration willing to engage these people and not allow them to get away with this kind of — well, my term — you don’t have to accept it — Stalinist behavior<\/em> from these people on that committee.”<\/p>\n

Cheney: “Well, you’re dead on, Rush.”<\/p>\n

The two also chuckled about the White House move.<\/p>\n

Limbaugh: “You go on vacation, this is what happens to you.”<\/p>\n

Cheney: “If you’re a Democrat.” They both laughed. …
\n– – <\/p>\n

So why is the White House so angry [about Pelosi in Syria]?<\/p>\n

[Joe Conason writes in Salon]: “The neoconservatives, both within and outside the White House, resent Pelosi for publicly dissenting from their ideology of war and their rejection of diplomacy. [Neo-con’s] own vision has collapsed in ruins; they have gravely harmed the American military and discredited the ideals of democracy, and they have run out of ideas.<\/strong>” …
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Matt Spetalnick writes for Reuters: “With George W. Bush struggling to stay relevant in his final 22 months in the White House, his administration is looking more and more like the incredible shrinking presidency<\/strong>….”
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Joe Klein writes in his opinion column for Time about what he calls “the epic collapse of the Bush Administration”: “[T]he three defining sins of the Bush Administration–arrogance, incompetence, cynicism–are congenital: they’re part of his personality.<\/strong> They’re not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine yet another two years of slow bleed with a leader so clearly unfit to lead<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Froomkin – Cheney Sticks to His Delusions It’s not a coincidence that Cheney was talking to Limbaugh yesterday. The show has been one of Cheney’s favorite venues. As I wrote in my January 29 column, The Unraveling of Dick Cheney, Cheney is increasingly out of touch with reality. He seems to think that by … Continue reading And You Thought I Was Intemperate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}