NYT/Reuters: Cheney Offers to Bet on Congressional Republicans

[DeepModem Mom]

Cheney Offers to Bet on Congressional Republicans
By REUTERS
Published: September 10, 2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday he expects fellow Republicans to rally and keep control of Congress in the November 7 election -- and offered to bet on it.

Although polls show unhappy voters may turn over the U.S. House of Representatives and possibly the Senate to Democrats, Cheney said: "I think we're doing very well out there.''

Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press,'' Cheney told moderator Tim Russert, "I'll even bet you a dinner that we hold both houses.''

"I don't bet,'' replied Russert....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-cheney.html

[Demeter]

1. Either Ominous, or Calculated Bluff

I think bluff...this whole Administration has been bluff.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. I guess the fix is in. n/t

[woodsprite]

3. Sounds like we need to find a way to fix "the fix". n/t

[sofa king]

19. There's a simple way to do that.

Publicly collect and display all available information on all poll workers, nationwide, starting right now. If that election looks like it's thrown, there's where you start: by suing them, by watching them for sudden displays of wealth, by relentlessly attempting to interview them on the public record, and by setting up people of interest as nodes of investigation which will no doubt ultimately lead back to the Vice President himself.

One must always keep in mind that logically, at least, the instant the federal government interferes in the investigation of election fraud, the burden of proof is no longer upon us to show that the election has been stolen. Instead, a much heavier burden is placed upon us, which is to extract what truth we can and then act upon that incomplete information, based on our best judgment.

[Sadie5]

21. Sofa King has the right idea

Start at the bottom with the RW poll workers. If we suspect a flaw in voting procedures, then sue the poll worker(s) responsible. They won't take the rap, they'll squeal and squeal loud.

[saltpoint]

4. Quick. Somebody lock Bill Bennett up in the cellar.

Any mention of betting, and Bill starts salivating.

[mitchum]

22. LMAO!!!

well done :)

[saltpoint]

23. Hi, mitchum. Thanks. On ol' Bill Bennett, I still think he's a

scorched-earth conservative. The gambling part doesn't bother me nearly as much as the scorched-earth ideologue part.

For me, he's always been on the shit list after claiming to have had a blind date once with Janis Joplin and speaking of it as if she were to blame for its not having gone well.

I'm a Janis Joplin fan from the early days and Bennett dissing her never sat right with me at all. It made me want to rearrange his goddam teeth. The rap on Joplin was that she was no angel. But to many of us she was. Angels don't have to be the ones in Pat Robertson's wallpaper.

So I've never much liked the man. CNN pays him a check to spew far-right propaganda, and he's very good at it, but he remains unpopular at my house.

[april]

5. rigged election like the Pres election?

[leesa]

6. Oh, oh. If old Scrooge Cheney is saying he'll bet money, the fix is surely

in. The man won't ever die because he'd have to leave his money behind. He's an addict like any strung out heroine junky.

[LynnTheDem]

7. "there is no doubt" ... "cakewalk"... "We know where they are" ...

"Iraq is, in fact, reconstituting their nuclear program"

Yes, like bush, cheney the dick is always so correct.

[Renew Deal]

16. The insurgency is in it's last throes

6 weeks, not 6 months... blah blah

[LynnTheDem]

17. "I have no ties to Halliburton"

blah blah blah... lie lie lie.

[Straight Shooter]

8. Remember when he said, "Kerry has the crowds but we have the votes"?

Someone had pointed out to Cheney that Kerry was getting extremely large crowds compared to bush. Cheney said something like, "He may have the crowds, but we have the votes." Then he smiled and turned away.

bush also mentioned, yesterday I think, that he is confident of holding both houses. Amazing how they take the American voters *cough* Diebold *cough* for granted.

[Stevepol]

9. Rove and Cheney I believe are in on the Diebold, et al. fix.

Not too many Repubs are in on it probably, but if any of them are, Rove and Cheney have to be.

And I agree. If the election were done over again, Bush would win by a slightly larger % than he won in 04.

And why not. I think Avi Rubin said that in 08, 39% will vote on DRE's, the highest figure yet for the paperless vote theft machines.

And this doesn't even take into acct the optiscans which are programmed by the same companies and in the same way when they count the paper.

Or the central tabulators.

[Gman]

10. My first thought this morning was

the bastard knows something we don't know. --> Diebold.

This year's election theft is already set up and in place. THe question is will America stand for it on the Wednesday after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2006.

[Eurobabe]

20. Either that or....

[CHIMO]

11. Heck

He's got lots of cash to throw around now.

U.S. panel to dole out duty dollars

WASHINGTON - Sensitive to accusations of setting up a secret Republican political slush fund, the Bush administration plans to announce next week that a non-partisan foundation will dole out US$450-million in Canadian lumber duties to worthy U.S. causes.

Sources say President George W. Bush will create a seven-member "independent endowment foundation" that will also include several Canadian observers.

The U.S.-run foundation will decide how about half of the US$1-billion remaining in the United States from the softwood lumber settlement with Canada will be distributed.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=6f2d2637-2695-4ec5-bcd8-63c18ac85109&k=73655

[nancyr]

12. Another fixed election in the cards.

No wonder he'd bet on it!

[snowbear]

13. That coming from a man with a 19%-ish approval rating... sure thing Cheney

...sure thing...

[samsingh]

14. just like Kathryn Harris and her offer for money?

[daleo]

15. Russert: "I don't bet."

Cheney: "Well, lets go hunting then."

[BR_Parkway]

18. What if the power went off on election day Dick? Would you still

bet then if all those little boxes couldn't tabulate the vote and they actually had to use paper ballots? I'm willing to bet you wouldn't bet on that one with a 10 foot poll.

[humbled_opinion]

24. Democrat Leaders need to request...

UN observers to make sure out election is fair and not fixed... if not UN then at least an outside independent entity ... the will of the people must be upheld.