Word: cheney
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...right, only recently declared to be on its last legs, is on the march. There was a buoyant certainty among the faithful that President Obama will score no major legislative victories in 2010, that Republicans will rout the opposition in November's midterm elections and that, as Dick Cheney assured the crowd, Obama will be a one-term President. (See "A Big Tent at the Conservatives' Convention...
...former Vice President, fired up and ready to go (in his own distinctively muted fashion), strode in unannounced and received a rowdy hero's welcome. As much as Bush-Cheney disappointed conservatives with their loose fiscal policy and assorted missteps, the right is now positively nostalgic for the good old days of the not too long ago. (See a stimulus report card after one year...
...insulting," Sumner, 31, who edits a military magazine, said turning away. "Across the board the reaction to GOProud's presence here has been positive, but then you have guys like this. Even Dick Cheney came out and says he supports us. Conservatives have to be more inclusive, they have to be." In fact, just one group, Liberty University, boycotted CPAC over the inclusion of GOProud, though the Catholic crowd weren't the only ones unnerved by their presence: one booth down from GOProud's set up in the fourth row, those manning the National Organization for Marriage, which works...
...morning of Valentine's Day, as Dick Cheney was once again calumniating the President on network television, I was in Doha, Qatar, listening to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempt to explain Barack Obama's foreign policy to several hundred restive representatives of the Islamic world. The event was the annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum, sponsored by the Brookings Institution, and the mood was a bit more testy than last year's Obama-induced euphoria. There was a universal sense among the Muslim delegates that the President had offered fine words in the past year but not much action...
Which brings us back to Cheney. He and his hard-line allies are rooting for Obama to fail. The leaders of Hamas - and other potential interlocutors, like the Syrians - need to understand that this may be their last best chance for progress. After Obama, the deluge...