Bush Considered Dumping Cheney

[babylonsister]

:wow:

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/11/02/bush_considered_dumping_cheney.html

November 02, 2010

Bush Considered Dumping Cheney


In his forthcoming memoir, Decision Points, former President George W. Bush writes that he considered dumping Vice President Dick Cheney from his 2004 reelection ticket to dispel the myths about Cheney's power in the White House and "demonstrate that I was in charge," the New York Times reports.

"The idea came from Mr. Cheney, who offered to drop out of the race one day during a private lunch between the two men in mid-2003. 'I did consider the offer,' Mr. Bush writes, and spent several weeks exploring the possibility of replacing Mr. Cheney with Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, before opting against the switch."

[tridim]

1. Lying sack of shit.

Cheney might have considered dumping Bush, but not the other way around.

[npk]

9. LOL. I was thinking the same thing

That is some judicial re-writing by Shrub no doubt.

[pgodbold]

2. What a joke. Cheney OWNS bush.

[tularetom]

3. Oh no he di-int

If the thought ever entered that empty head he would never have had the guts to put it to words.

He'd have been slapped upside the head like a kid who farted at the dinner table.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Like He Had A Choice

He was never in charge. He was an empty suit and just did what he was told. He was NEVER in a position to make a major decision on anything.
GAC

[gratuitous]

5. Yeah, Georgie wanted to demonstrate that he was in charge

So Pinocchio reached 'wa-y-y-y-y-y high up, and with scissors in hand, tried to cut the strings.

As eminent philosopher Paul Simon once sang, "Who do, who do you think you're foolin'?"

[JI7]

6. hahahha, trying to distance himself from his own administration now

[Naturyl]

7. Herr Doktor Cat-Killer Frist?

Sheesh. I would have thought nobody could be worse than Cheney, but maybe we lucked out...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I don't if anybody could have been worse than Cheney

Actually, it might not have been so bad with him gone from the Senate- no stupid "Justice Sunday", no "diagnosis" of Terri Schiavo, and, maybe no "Nuclear Option" fight. :shrug:

I wonder if that would've affected the 2004 election? Of course, him replacing Cheney might've looked like a "flip-flop" or an "admission" that he wasn't the infallible "decider" mystique that he and the Republican Party worked so hard to construct around him for the election.

[SmileyRose]

8. "I'm the decider" LOL

delusions of grandeur.

[nosmokes]

11. It was nice of Dick to let him put that in the book though...

[Marr]

12. I guess Cheney refused his request.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. ..........

:rofl: Good one!

[KG]

13. ha ha.

hahahahahahahah! :rofl:

[charlie]

15. "The idea came from Mr. Cheney"

He told me to fire him... to prove I was the decider.

Yep. Sounds right.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. as usual, dumbo gets things backwards:

cheney thought about dumping dumbo!

[devilgrrl]

17. Oh please! Cheney was running the joint.

:eyes:

[Ikonoklast]

18. Yeah, and I'm the Queen of England.

Does that feckless wastrel son actually think people will believe that drivel?