Friend: Cheney says Washington is 'all BS,' full of 'suffering fools'

[rawstory]

A column from the Washington Post's David Ignatius today ponders how Vice President Dick Cheney manages to retain so much power in the White House in spite of the ruinous political consequences that current policy has had for the Bush presidency. One insight Ignatius offers is that Cheney is driven by a belief that politics in the nation's capital is "all BS" that he believes should be ignored.

In his column, Ignatius suggests that "Cheney has been the political equivalent of a black hole -- exerting a powerful but mostly invisible force on decisions. The office of the vice president has had a gravitational weight that sucked in other personalities and entire branches of the government without emitting light or heat that would explain the decision-making process."

With this analogy in mind, the Post columnist also acknowledges that Cheney's influence in the White House has waned at times. But an important principle has been sustained throughout his service in the Bush White House: he is "urging the president to ignore politics and maintain a tough course on Iraq."

According to an old Cheney friend, Ignatius writes that the aftermath of Watergate put the now vice president in a frame of mind in which "he got tired of suffering fools...He thinks it's all BS." His disregard for Washington politics then "ripened when he made enough money as chief executive of Halliburton that he didn't have to care what people in Washington thought."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Vice_President_Cheney_says_Washington_all_0119.html

(Ignatius: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011801511.html)

[aquart]

1. It's not politics he disregards, it's the constitution.

Which is a violation of his oath.

[Junkdrawer]

2. Two words: Shadow Government n/t

[eagler]

16. No truer words spoken.

nt

[hippiechick]

3. It's PEOPLE he disregards.

He has spite and disdain for everyone who's not him.
We're all rabble, including everyone else in DC.

That's how arrogant evil fucks feel when nobody puts them in check once in awhile.
They answer to no-one, everyone is irrelevant.


:puke:

[tanyev]

4. A lot of people think that, Dick.

But they don't appoint themselves Vice-President and then do everything they can to increase the power of the executive branch.

[Cocoa]

5. he's the human equivalent of a black hole

he reminds me of a great quote from Oliver Stone's "Nixon," "he's the darkness reaching out for the darkness..."

[acmavm]

6. The man is a lying scheming thug. Who cares what he thinks?

He just needs to be stopped and he and his seed forever be banned for any national or political forum.

[CoffeeCat]

7. If he despises our cherished government so much...

..then WTF is he doing in the upper echelons of it?

Get out now, Dick!

That miserable, nihilistic bastard. He got into government
so he could destroy it!

This article speaks to the entire explanation into the dark souls
of these bastards--and their dark politics.

They hate America. They hate Washington, DC. They hate that they
are not totally in control and that they can't be as evil and dastardly
as they like. So, they got on top of the government--in positions of power--and
they are systematically destroying it.

They have utter contempt for our nation, it's laws, its system of checks and
balances, our Constitution and our entire way of life---because they can't
STAND that these things mean that there is something bigger than themselves.

They are a plague on our democracy.

These people are abusers. Most male abusers marry. They don't marry because
they respect marriage and love women. They marry because it provides a framework
for them to control, manipulate, power up on and systematically destroy someone.

Dick Cheney and the rest of these thugs are using our government as a playground
to destroy, control, manipulate and power up on our entire country.

SICK. SICK. STUFF.

[NoodleyAppendage]

8. A blight upon democracy...won't shed a tear when his black heart stops.

One can only hope for a massive electromagnetic disruption of his black, machine-run simbalance of a heart. I will not shed a tear for a man who has done more to subvert our Constitution and disrupt the country I hold so dear. Good riddance.

[Beetwasher]

9. Cheney Makes Bond Villains Look Quaint

There's never been a bigger, more powerful, more vile criminal thug than sneering Dick.

[Eurobabe]

10. Oh and was that after 2003 when Halliburton raked in all the dough

on their no-bid contracts in Iraq? How's those stock options Dick?

I wish this fat bastard would be tried, convicted and put in an orange jumpsuit somewhere. But it'll never happen. The best we can hope for is in 2009 they ALL just GO AWAY.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Just to correct Raw Story's headline

Cheney thinks that he has been forced to 'suffer fools', and is tired of doing so - not that the fools are suffering. It comes from a Biblical reference, and it's a bit of a cliche now - I'm amazed the Raw Story writer misinterpreted it.

[Virginia Dare]

15. His boss being the fool in chief...n/t

[C_U_L8R]

12. Dick must have looked in the mirror this morning

Number One Gasbag

[adigal]

13. I get the feeling Cheney doesn't plan on leaving

Why else would he be pushing for such power? How could he be angling to stay without running himself??

[HughBeaumont]

14. Lurking Repukes - if you're wondering why no one, in your world, "gets it" . . .

. . . as in, "doesn't go along with your agenda without question", and why you're losing support and thought of as nutjobs, you might want to start with your unwavering support of this snarling, spidery fuckstick.

I mean, COME on. I thought vampiric "leaders" like Cheney only existed in spook-run governments and back-alley dealings.

The fact that Dick Cheney is in a position of power in a supposedly evolved, democratically inclined 2007 speaks SAD, SAD volumes for our resolve.

Why does this dunderhead strike ANY kind of fear anymore? No one seems to be listening to him. He's now on par with rubber room candidates and the senile ranting uncle who warrants the occasional head pat.

Congress, PLEASE. DEMAND his resignation. He's a relic who's time has come and . . . well, his time never really CAME, did it? It was just sort of THRUST upon us. He has no place in modern politics.

[Cha]

17. "Suffering Fools"..isn't that what that Fool

cheney makes others do?

From reading my history..I see where cheney has been in Washington D.C. for decades making this our country SUFFER LIKE A MOFO.