Bill Kristol wrote a full-throated defense of him in the Weekly Standard the other day. The David Frum/Meghan McCain/spineless Republican wing of our movement took their shot at trying to make him be quiet, and they failed.

Kristol makes a good point: Cheney has started a discussion on EIT that most media-whipped Republicans were too scared to engage in. And he’s winning!

Now, a month [after Cheney criticized the Obama administration for releasing the OLC memos on EIT], Pelosi is attacking career CIA officials for lying to Congress, and other Democrats are scrambling to distance themselves from her. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has pulled back on threats to prosecute Bush-era lawyers, reversed itself on releasing photos of alleged military abuse of prisoners, and embraced the use of military commissions to try captured terrorists. The administration now looks irresponsible when it lives up to candidate Obama’s rhetoric, and hypocritical when it vindicates Bush policies the candidate attacked.

Many Democratic leaders and pundits do not have good debating skills. They’ve been softened by years of sheltering within academia and by an MSM that agrees with them. When hit with hard questions, they often do poorly.

And, many of the Dems’ policy positions are not supported by a majority of the American people. Card Check? Cap-and-trade? Government-controlled health care?

Now, the Dems finally have the legislative majorities to do what they want—but many of those Dem legislators want to get reelected. So they can’t afford to make their constituents mad. And, once those constituents learn more about the slimy and cowardly things the Dems have done in the past—and want to do in the future—many of them are likely to get mad.

The Dems can’t win these debates…so their best option is to figure out a way to not have the debate in the first place.

They know the MSM won’t ask (and press) the tough questions unless it has to. First, the MSM is widely sympathetic to Democratic politics, and wants to see a longterm Democratic government. So, they’ll hesitate to push any stories that undermine that. (Remember how quickly the MSM dropped stories of Tony Rezko’s financing Obama’s house, or Obama’s deliberate disabling of anti-fraud protection in his online donation software?)

Secondly, the MSM fears America coming to realize that Obama is a phony. Once that dawns on Americans, they’ll turn on those who pushed that phony into power. The MSM is right at the front of that list.

If there’s going to be a debate that wounds Obama and the Dems, Republicans have to start it and press it. Dick Cheney knows that.

Salon is taking one last shot at getting weasely Republicans to goad Dick Cheney into silence. Meghan McCain couldn’t do it, David Frum couldn’t do it…maybe someone else can.

I doubt it. Dick Cheney isn’t Meghan McCain.

Bill Kristol writes that Cheney “made himself the Most Valuable Republican of the first four months of the Obama administration.”

“Horatius at Our Gate” is more like it.

I’m thinking of Liz Cheney, plus the Cheney daughters.

We cannot spare this family—they fight.

He is good. I totally missed him up there behind Pelosi forcing her to come out and make all those press conferences digging herself in deeper. I stand in awe of the master.

It is wonderful to see Cheney at work and made even better by having you explain it for those who don’t (or won’t) understand what he is doing.

here:
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2009/05/myths-and-facts-about-dick-cheney/

Seriously though, I too am becoming more and more impressed with Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, the more I see of them.

…and they let by a sentence like this: “Cheney, safely ensconced in his McLean, Va., mansion, must be chortling all the way to his cave every night.”

No wonder their stock isn’t worth the paper on which it’s printed.

all the way to his cave.” Those two just don’t fit. But you can’t expect reason..
Yeah’ it’s hell when someone comes out and asks for the whole story, who threatens your pet hates, who demands that you think and ignores the NY Times.

Friends, we are witnessing the phenomenon of an immense group ot people going insane at roughly the same time, and all because of politics, the idolatry of the the State. The poor fools have nothing else and you can’t be sure where it will end or how bad it will get.

This section…

“Let’s say that you’re a person who has adopted a particular set of beliefs – for whatever reason – that you have come to depend on as being an integral part of why you consider yourself to be a good person. And let’s say that these beliefs have been reinforced and validated by certain outside individuals, through a series of deliberately provocative statements and actions. And let’s finally say that it becomes clear that those people have been lying to you with those statements and actions – and without them, the set of beliefs that you’re relying on now come into serious question.”

…is practically a textbook definition of the psychological phenomenon known as “escalation of commitment” That is, once someone becomes heavily invested in an idea, a belief system, a theology or whatever, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to change their beliefs even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, e.g. every failed liberal program, policy and notion starting with “free love” in the ’60′s, abandoning the North after Vietnam in the ’70′s and all the way through today with nationalizing GM, and on to the future with attempts to nationalize healthcare… Pride, fear of humiliation, loss of self validation, esteem and worth — all contribute to the “aging hippie” syndrome. Deep down they know their beliefs are poopycock, but they have so blinded themselves with layers of self-delusion and self-righteousness that they would not change if God Almighty Himself infused them with the Devine Wisdom of the Ages…

This is one reason I am so enamored of David Horowitz. He was actually raised a red diaper baby, but when the truth was revealed to him, he was able to see it for what it was and not what he wanted it to be. So invested were his liberal friends that he has been shunned by them ever since…

And CONGRATULATIONS to Dick Cheney!!! He must be behind “The Republican Attack Machine” as well. Good on him…

and is running with….the the oldstream media circle jerk begin

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17dowd.html?_r=2

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Game v Phillies, the ap photographed Cheney in the stands. He’s apparently not so afraid that he has to hide in his alleged Virginia mansion.