Speaking of ass-polyps, Cheney's wild-ways started at a young age...
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cheney once considered the vice presidency a "cruddy job" but got over his misgivings and went on to be arguably the most powerful No. 2 in U.S. politics, and one of the most heavily criticized.
The 66-year-old Cheney's stoic, no-nonsense demeanor and influence in many White House decisions are in stark contrast to his youthful days when he was caught twice for drunk driving in Wyoming and dropped out of Yale University for bad grades.
Cheney's life has been chronicled in a fairly sympathetic biography by Stephen Hayes, a writer for The Weekly Standard conservative magazine. He spent nearly 30 hours in one-on-one interviews with the normally reticent Cheney for the book.
In his research Hayes found that Cheney in 1996 called the vice presidency a "cruddy job," which his political mentor, President Gerald Ford, had hated. But by 2000 Cheney was persuaded to accept when George W. Bush offered the position.
How bad do your grades have to be where even skull and bones won't bail you?
Lack of ideas? Bush has put forth many fairly original ideas. You're seriously short-changing him on that one. I'm not saying they were all good ideas, but he's proposed a lot of interesting things over the past 6 years.
Relating ideas to each other is a whole 'nother issue. I won't even argue that one.
"Bush has put forth many fairly original ideas"
HIS ideas? He's a puppet/stooge of the neo- s and Repug string pullers.
Just listen to him talk extemporaneously, or in the debates, and anybody can see at very, very most generous, he got average intelligence (C student -off at Yale), and way below average in communications skills.
Last edited by boutons_; 07-23-2007 at 03:07 PM.
That's why several of the things he's put forth like his guest worker program have ticked off the Neo-Con base? A lot of his early domestic agenda was more in line with Democrat ideals than Republican/Neo-con. Bush became a puppet when he agreed to invade Iraq. At that point he became so reliant on his base he lost his ability to do what he wanted.
Also, I can pretty much guarantee that a President hasn't put forth their original idea in probably at least a century. They have advisors to come up with the the plans and they just push the ones they like.
I wasn't trying to say he was extremely intelligent. He seems to be of average intelligence and below average social skills (just about the same as Kerry in both). There's not really any way to argue better than that for Bush.
Lifted this from Rush Limbaugh, but I wanted to share.
President Bush had five polyps removed from his colon over the weekend. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Carl Levin and Durbin are all doing fine.
Polyps are benign...
LinkyABC News' Martha Raddatz reports: Five small polyps, or growths removed from President Bush's colon were benign, or non-cancerous, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told reporters Monday.
"The president is in good health, there's no reason for alarm," said Snow, who himself beat colon cancer but was diagnosed in March with a re occurrence of cancer that has attached to his liver.
Snow said the President will have a follow-up colonoscopy in three years, rather than waiting the usual five years, because polyps were discovered.
I wonder if the Prez had a simultaneous endoscopy, that's important too...
"his guest worker program have ticked off the Neo-Con base"
nothing original about his proposition. He did what his business backers wanted, not what his ideological backers wanted.
Just in case you have any lingering doubts who is really running things...
LinkyThen he goes on to review a memo that Gonzales himself signed, actually extending the structure Ashcroft set in place. And while Ashcroft's memo made several attempts to tamp down this structure, in key ways he opened it up, explicitly for the Fourth Branch. Whitehouse describes how the memo describes that the lines of communication open to the White House will "apply in parallel fashion in communications with the OVP." And then he points specifically to a paragraph at the end of the memo reiterating the communications open to OVP. Gonzales, typically, claims to have no idea how those items got into a memo he signed personally.
Whitehouse: What on earth business does the OVP wrt ongoing investigations at DOJ.
AGAG: Good question.
Whitehouse: Why is it here then. I'd like to know how that addition was made. Once again, final paragraph, set off by asterisks, that undermines everything set out in previous paragraphs. President, VP, then you add their Chiefs of Staff, Counsel to the President, or Vice President. Somebody took the trouble to write in Counsel to VP and give them access to ongoing investigations.
AGAG: I don't know if that has happened.
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Lovely. Cheney--whose own Chief of Staff was indicted and convicted for impeding an ongoing investigation--now has usurped access to ongoing investigations, for himself, his Chief of Staff, and his Counsel, courtesy of AGAG. David Addington, the architect of the Unitary Executive, now gets to know what DOJ is doing with ongoing investigations. AGAG is doing marvelous work in DOJ.
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