The Dick....Cheney

The Dick
Cheney

Dick Cheney's Legislative Accomplishments ... Both of Them

Congressman John Spratt (D-SC), ranking member on the
House Budget Committee, made the following remarks on a call today:

"Dick Cheney served in the Congress for 11 years. I served with him for most
of these years. In that time, he only passed two bills. One was to build a flood
plain on the Colorado River and the other was a bill to help a constituent.

What's even more telling about Dick Cheney's record in the House is not what
he supported but what he opposed - things like Headstart and funding for seniors.
It seems pretty dishonest for Bush and Cheney to be attacking John Kerry -
who passed 57 bills in the Senate - for his legislative accomplishments."

Here, for comparison is a summary of the legislation sponsored and passed
by Vice President Cheney during his 11 year legislative career.

Cheney's Legislative Career by the Numbers

96th Congress: 4 Sponsored; 0 became Law

97th Congress: 4 Sponsored: 0 became Law

98th Congress: 8 Sponsored: 0 became Law

99th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law
(H.R.1246: A bill to establish a federally declared floodway for the
Colorado River below Davis Dam.)

100th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law
(H.R.712: A bill for the relief of Lawrence K. Lunt.)

101st Congress: 1 Sponsored: 0 became Law

On Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting
companion in the face and torso while hunting quail in Texas.
Feb 11, 2006

Dick Cheney, Vietnam Draft Dodger
Thank God Cheney was a Vietnam draft dodger. No Telling how
many Americans he would have killed.

Resume of Vice President Dick Cheney
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Authur Andersen and Halliburton

I get good advice from their people based on how we’re
doing business and how we’re operating over and above
just sort of the normal by-the-books auditing
arrangement.
-Dick Cheney, then chairman of Halliburton,
praising Arthur Andersen in a 1996
Andersen marketing video.

Baghdad
"Once you get to Baghdad, it's not clear what you do
with it. It's not clear what kind of government you
put in place of the one that's currently there now.
Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime, a
Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists,
or one that tilts toward Islamic fundamentalists?
How much credibility is that going to have if it's
set up by the American military there? How long
does the United States military have to stay there
to protect the people that sign on for that government,
and what happens once we leave?"
Secretary of Defense
Dick Cheney 1991
Source:Richard Reeves http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=123&ncid=742
&e=10&u=/ucrr/20041119/cm_ucrr/theargumentforcuttingandrunning

Debate Lie
"Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of [the]
Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays
when they're in session.
The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight."
DICK Cheney 10-5-4 VP Debate

On Feb. 1, 2001, the vice president thanked Edwards by name at a
Senate prayer breakfast and sat beside him during the event.
On April 8, 2001, Cheney and Edwards shook hands when they met
off-camera during a taping of NBC's "Meet the Press," moderator
Tim Russert said Wednesday on "Today."
On Jan. 8, 2003, the two met when the first-term North Carolina
senator accompanied Elizabeth Dole to her swearing-in by Cheney
as a North Carolina senator.
Source:LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer

Feb. 1, 2001

Deficits
"Reagan proved deficits don't matter."
Dick Cheney
Source:Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill
The Price of Loyalty

Energy Policy?
"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but
it is not a sufficient basis for a sound,
comprehensive energy policy."
DICK Cheney

Iraq Welcome
I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq,
from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will,
in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Vice President Dick Cheney, On March 16 2003 to Tim Russert

The streets in Basra and Baghdad are sure to erupt in joy in
the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans.
Vice President Dick Cheney
August 2002

Job Creation
If Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two-to-three years,
the kind of tax increases both Kerry and Edwards are talking about,
we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had.
Dick Cheney, Feb 2004
Source:Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate
(note:The Bush Cheney Administration Policices have lost 2.3 million jobs
in 3 years. 2001-2003)

Cheney's Woman

Read About Her

Nelson Mandela
On ABC's ``This Week,'' Cheney defended his 1986 vote against a resolution that called for
U.S. recognition of the African National Congress in South Africa, freedom for the
organization's then-imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela
and negotiations with the black majority.
``The ANC was then viewed as a terrorist organization,
It was a step that we simply weren't prepared to take.''

Principle
"Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do
any good if you lose."
Dick Cheney, White House Chief of Staff, 1976.

Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein's offensive military capability, his
capacity to threaten his neighbors, has been virtually
eliminated.
Dick Cheney (Secretary of Defense at the
time) on April 29, 1991, at the Soref Symposium talking about the First
Gulf War.

United Nations

The UN Security Council came to be a very effective forum
for addressing the issues before us, both in terms of
providing the kind of sanction that was needed to create the
international coalition, but also to sanction the use of
military force if need be to achieve our objectives
Secretary Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense of the United
States
Soref Symposium
April 29, 1991

Weapons Of Mass Destruction

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now
has weapons of mass destruction....What he wants is time,
and more time to husband his resources to invest in his
ongoing chemical and biological weapons program, and to
gain possession of nuclear weapons."
-- Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002

"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.
I think Mr. El Baradei frankly is wrong"
--Dick Cheney, on NBC's `Meet The Press',
March 16, 2003

Family Values
Cheney, as the Vice President, is also the president of the
Senate and so he was present for a routine photo shoot.
(The Senate was not in session during the shoot.) It was
there that Cheney bumped into Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT),
a ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. The two began to
argue with Cheney criticizing Leahy for his remarks about
Halliburton's war profiteering and that company's ties to
Cheney (Cheney was formerly the CEO of Haliburton). Leahy
fired back something about Republicans accusing Democrats of
being anti-Catholic for opposing some of Bush's judicial
nominees. In other words, it was a bit of a cat fight
between opposing politicians. The argument erupted with
Cheney, the traditional family values virtuous Vice President
telling Leahy, "go fuck yourself!" Leahy spokesman David Carle
said of the outburst, "The vice president seemed to be taking
personally the criticism that Senator Leahy and others have
leveled against Halliburton's sole-source contracts in Iraq."
Source:http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=2&id=5221

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