The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Cheney Mad at Bush re: Libby

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Terrific reporting by Stephen Hayes. Cheney speaks up for Libby. Good for Cheney. I had gotten the strong impression that Cheney really wanted Libby pardoned but fell constrained from saying so in public (and was correct to feel so constrained). Now he speaks up, like the stand-up guy he is. I continue to wish that Cheney had been president all these years, not Bush. Bush's failure to pardon was utterly dishonorable.

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Reagan's Ghost| 1.22.09 @ 11:29AM

Cheney has lived a life of honorable public service, even to bosses he did not agree with all of the time. He has an awesome record now somewhat marred by a boss very stubborn on the small details and naively gullible on the enormous ones, *nice* guy though he certainly may be...

Reagan's Ghost| 1.22.09 @ 11:38AM

I think this little detail El Presidente has overlooked will, like me, come back to haunt the president who often took my name in vain to get elected twice, refusing to learn from my own mistake of believing a deal with the commie Democrats would be honored for the amnestying of a couple million illegals, and thoroughly undermining, and killing the party I, and Goldwater, and Buckley worked so hard to build.
The retired Cheney may be a little more voluble than the gov't pol Cheney was about life inside inner offices of power.

J David| 1.22.09 @ 11:47AM

Uh-oh, GWB done p.o.-ed Darth Vader...

Another of many instances where he cops a squat on his closest friends and defenders in favor of enemies who would love nothing better than to see his head mounted on a post along the Beltway. Smooth move there, Mr. X-Prez!

Interloper| 1.22.09 @ 12:46PM

Dick Cheney has gotten as rich as King Midas off murder and mayhem. That is the ONLY thing he truly cares about. But, it is easy to fool the far Right. Y'all aren't even wise enough to realize that Cheney did not speak out in favor of the Loose Lips Libby until after doing so would make no real difference whatsoever.

Sebastian B. O. Bunionstow IV.| 1.22.09 @ 12:50PM

God save the Queen and the magnificent Mr. Cheney. I too wish the lefty bloggers were right in advancing the notion that Bush had been Cheney's Mini-Me.

ruth| 1.22.09 @ 2:33PM

Interloper said mean things about Cheney, I really like the VP now.

Ran| 1.22.09 @ 8:29PM

Mr. Hillyer, ditto. I feel grateful that he was there riding shotgun. Heh. My only real disappointment with Cheney is that he had had no ambition to run for the Office.

If '08 had been a Cheney/Palin ticket...

Publius| 1.27.09 @ 2:13PM

Cheney = Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. He was the brain behind Bush's moronity...My thanks to guys like you fo 5k plus dead American soldiers and the face that somewhere, hidden behind a myriad of shell companies, the last administration has enough oil money now to propagate themselves for the next 20 generations or so. :P

John McFadden| 2.17.09 @ 7:53PM

Mr. Libbey outed the name of a CIA agent - a felony. Felons should go to jail, not be pardoned. If Mr. Cheney was complicit then he also committed a felony and also should go to jail. This has nothing to do with politics - other than the crime(s) was committed for political reasons. Why does anyone think a felon should be pardoned just because they agree with the criminal on various unrelated political positions?