Preparing for power: Biden limbers up for office with scathing Cheney attack

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Vice President-elect abandons the saccharine scriptto lambast his predecessor
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/preparing-for-power-biden-limbers-up-for-office-with-scathing-cheney-attack-1380410.html

The incoming Vice-President, Joe Biden, had some choice words for his predecessor yesterday, abandoning the saccharine script he and President-elect Barack Obama have stuck with since the 4 November election.

Mr Biden told The New York Times that he would "restore the balance" of the vice-presidency by returning to the days when the second-most powerful person in America was neither seen nor heard. He used his first newspaper interview since the election to accuse Vice-President Dick Cheney of extending the office out of all proportion. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," Mr Biden said, jabbing a finger at the Times reporter. "The Bush-Cheney relationship hasn't tasted very good. Not a single person you can name for me. Look at me, now, a single one can't tell you that the pudding has tasted good." And he hammered home his words. "Not one," he said. "Name me one serious person, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican."

Just back from a trip to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Biden bridled at the suggestion that he would be less influential than Mr Cheney. "The only value of power is the effect, the efficacy of its use," he said. "And all the power Cheney had did not result in effective outcomes."

Mr Cheney himself is busy rewriting history, even as he packs his bags and prepares to leave Washington for Wyoming next week. Last night he was at it again, repeating the discredited claims that Saddam Hussein worked with al-Qa'ida and denying all responsibility for the economic calamity that has crippled America and much of the world as well.

[thunder rising]

1. Since he outed a CIA spy ... he better stay out of small planes now.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. In his most recent interview, on PBS,

that ratbastard murderer repeated his incredible, and false, allegations that "the intelligence was wrong."

Does this fucktard understand that pissing off the CIA, and consistently insulting them and blaming them for something they didn't do, is a stupid and dangerous thing to do?

Oh, well. I'll be rooting for the spooks on this one..........

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3. I have a feeling that posse...

isn't going too far..Cheney will probably be sitting on oodles of boards, especially those in the Defense Industry and the Carlyle Group. I can just see them at the 'club' having cocktails and discussing who they're going to strong-arm to pass some tax law, or get a government contract for some global corporation they're invested in.

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4. Mr. Cheney is busy trying to decide where he is going to put all the money he

will be getting from Haliburton.

I am so fucking pissed that these assholes are walking away from this clusterfuck that they have created.

[classysassy]

5. The man

and his deeds,as the guardian of boy george for the past eight years,your deeds were so evil,mad,and reckless.Your day of judgement will come sir,and all the stolen loot,all of the people you and lil george murdered will come back and haunt both of you evil cowards.