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...Bush aides say there will be no shying away. Republican officials note that Vice President Cheney has made so many appearances on behalf of '06 candidates that the administration has already surpassed its own contribution, at a similar point in time, for the GOP's '02 and '04 congressional campaigns. ?Next year, you're going to see the President as a strong and eager participant in campaigns for House and Senate and probably governor,? said an official familiar with his plans. ?Despite some of the polling atmospheric problems you're seeing in D.C., the President is still a tremendous draw...
...televised Dick Cheney's speech attacking Iraq-war critics last week, a black X flashed across his face for a total of 0.14 seconds. It took outraged conservatives only slightly longer to post allegations of media bias, with THE FILTHY ONE dubbing CNN "the al-Jazeera of the West." But skeptics accepted the network's apology for the glitch--"a dumb one," noted blogger MICHELLE MALKIN--after some graphic-savvy sleuthing at THE DAN REPORT. By revealing the underlying production notes that explained away the X, the blog elicited the posting: "So no sinister plots. But I'll bet some...
...Scooter's Fate The indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's aide Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice [Nov. 7] was the first breach in the protective wall of lies and deception that allowed the Administration to drag us into the senseless, totally unjustified war in Iraq. Now that the wall has been broken in one place, the truth will come flooding through. In a democracy, citizens are guilty of the sins of their leaders because voters chose them. We cannot pretend we are blameless. We elected them, and we are just as guilty as they...
...want to discredit the Bush Administration. So all causes, including Iraq, are exploitable for that purpose. But to conclude that most people no longer trust the President is wrong. Americans twice chose to elect Bush. Barbara Schaaf Hollister, Missouri, U.S. Scooter's Fate the indictment of vice president dick Cheney's aide Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice [Nov. 7] was the first breach in the protective wall of lies and deception that has allowed the Administration to drag us into the senseless, totally unjustified war in Iraq. Now that the wall has been broken in one place...
...Terror are clear. The recent success of Senator John McCain’s, R-Ariz., anti-torture legislation indirectly questioned the administration’s commitment to upholding human rights; the amendment received an overwhelming 90-9 victory in the Senate. But Vice President Dick Cheney threatened to veto the legislation unless altered to exempt the CIA from the amendment, suggesting the measure not be applied to counter-terrorism operations carried out abroad, or “by an element of the United States government” other than the Defense Department. In a disappointing turn of events, the White...