Throughout the film's first hour, McKay plants the seeds for conservatism’s rise. Cheney meets Roger Ailes as a young congressional staffer; Antonin Scalia before he became a Supreme Court justice; and even a drunken George W. Bush (a hilarious Sam Rockwell) crashing a Christmas ...read more
There’s been an unfortunate trend lately where a member of the Bush administration comes out of the woodwork to criticize Donald Trump and the political clickosphere can’t trip over itself fast enough to point out that things are so bad even the Bush administration can’t believe ...read more
On the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks Dick Cheney marked the solemn occasion by urging us to remember the 3,000 lives lost that day, while calling for peace and understanding around the world. Just kidding. He renewed his hysterical attacks on President Obama. ...read more
The best thing George W. Bush did in his political career was to stay the fuck away from the limelight after his unfathomably disastrous presidency. Having decimated the entire global economy and sent half the Western world into two un-winnable conflicts in the Middle East that ...read more
Predictably, Sith Lord and former Vice President Dick Cheney opposes the Iran nuclear deal. Why? Because Dick Cheney wants to go to war with Iran as part of his unfinished masterplan to turn the Middle East into a giant strip mall for the benefit of US corporations. It went ...read more
If there was one person on the planet no one should ever listen to when it comes to US foreign policy it would almost certainly be Dick Cheney. The former Vice President's major achievement in his 33 year political career was the utter decimation of Iraq - a cause he had ...read more
This week, the New York Times published a bombshell of an op-ed demanding that the Obama administration "prosecute torturers and their bosses," specifically Bush officials up to and including former Vice President Dick Cheney. It's probably the first time in recent history that ...read more
There are certain policy decisions that should never be left up to the American people. I'm not necessarily saying we're stupid. Actually, come to think of it, I'm absolutely saying too many of us are stupid. 29 percent of us can't name the vice president. Roughly 45 percent of ...read more
Miraculously, Dick Cheney is still alive. He's still alive and still the former Bush administration's most visible and tenacious historical revisionist when it comes to the tactics it employed in the Global War on Terror. So, naturally, Cheney was thawed from his cryo-chamber ...read more
On Wednesday I wrote about the strange dynamic whereby the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “torture report” seemed to absolve top Bush administration officials of culpability by claiming they had been consistently misled by the CIA, even as former Vice President Dick ...read more
It's shocking to think that Dick Cheney is still in the United States and isn't up against a wall out behind the Hague right now. But given that he is somehow walking around a free man, it's actually not a surprise at all that the House Republicans are seeking his counsel on how ...read more
Since 1974, when she became the first woman assigned to cover the White House for a major television network full time, Ann Compton has covered history as it unfolded at the White House. As White House correspondent for ABC News, Compton was her audience's witness to major ...read more
Vice President Joe Biden took aim at Sith Lord Dick Cheney on Wednesday at a gathering of young progressives, slamming his predecessor for insisting that the military budget "ought to be our top priority for spending. Not food stamps, not highways, or anything else." In his ...read more
"I've got to defend my point of view." -- Dick Cheney This was Cheney's response when Jake Tapper called him on a horseshit talking point he offered up during an interview on CNN yesterday. In an effort to deflect credit away from President Obama for the killing of Osama bin ...read more
If you want to know who has the edge right now in the unofficial race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, just take a look at who's being attacked by other presumptive candidates and party establishment types. Right now, that whipping boy is Rand Paul, who's not ...read more
If your impression of the past 14 years of American foreign and security policy was, "Needs more Dick Cheney," then I have good news for you: You are getting more Dick Cheney. And he's practically salivating over the prospect of a terrorist attack "far deadlier" than 9/11 -- ...read more
If the Bush administration were a football team led by a candid NFL coach of the Bill Belichick or Rex Ryan variety, its postgame press conference would've started something like this: "Well, there's not much to say. You saw what happened out there. We couldn't get the job done. ...read more
On Sunday morning's edition of ABC News' This Week, former Vice President Dick Cheney formed into a solid long enough to rehash the criticisms that we already didn't want to hear from him. Since Jay Carney already destroyed Cheney with a single line at his final briefing, ...read more
Rachel Maddow is a national treasure -- and last night she proved why. While we spent a good part of yesterday either dissecting Dick Cheney's almost unimaginably audacious op-ed on Iraq or simply suggesting that he take his thoughts on the matter and shove them up his ass, ...read more
On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney delivered his final briefing from the podium in the Brady Briefing Room, striding onto that stage for the final time to the strains of Guided By Voices' "Motor On." As he takes his next steps back into private ...read more
With former Bush administration officials and other such neoconservatives coming out of the woodwork to offer their super ideas on the situation in Iraq while slamming President Obama, it's never been a better time for a Throwback Thursday post to remind everyone why Iraq is the ...read more
Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly hosted former Vice President Dick Cheney along with Liz Cheney last night to discuss reactions to their father/daughter Wall Street Journal op/ed in which the Cheneys wondered out loud why President Obama hasn't done jack squat to clean up Cheney's ...read more
You know, you really have to give credit to Bob Cesca, who somehow managed to write a thorough and detailed critique of Dick Cheney's mind-bogglingly audacious op-ed in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. As usual, Bob took the time to organize his thoughts and refute almost point ...read more
Earlier today, we took the bullet that is reading Dick Cheney's Godzilla-balled op-ed about Iraq for you, and at Wednesday afternoon's White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Jay Carney offered the White House's reaction to Cheney's assessment of the situation in Iraq. ...read more
The Washington Post published a travesty of a column on Monday by the baby-faced, toddler-brained, and whiny, Marc Thiessen that as of this writing, had notched a whopping 4,064 comments. What could possibly account for this mind-blowingly high number of comments on a piece by ...read more
Concluding our trilogy of Republicans who we shouldn't take seriously on Iraq, patient zero in the series has to be former Vice President Dick Cheney. His total lack of credibility in this issue notwithstanding, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial by Cheney, titled ...read more
Another work week is just about over but before you sneak out early to start the weekend drinking, here's a little reading material. 1. Heart of Darkness I've never really stopped to consider what the person was like who died only to have his heart go to Dick Cheney. This is ...read more
Dick Cheney will rightly go down as one of the most despised figures in American political history. The ruthlessly cold neo con was one of the major architects of the Iraq War and the 'War on Terror', and used his power in office to do an astonishing amount of damage at home ...read more
Just when you thought Republican delusions had reached their limit, Dark Lord Dick Cheney re-emerges from the political wilderness to remind everyone how competent the Bush Administration was. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Cheney told the British paper that the non scandal in ...read more
By Paul R. Pillar: It has become almost a truism that foreign policy will not be a major determinant of the outcome of this year’s presidential election. Foreign policy has played a tiny role in the Republican campaign. Because it takes two to tangle on any campaign issue, ...read more
Finally, some significant developments on Obama's highly contentious and unconstitutional targeted kill policy. From Mother Jones: Congress is finally standing up to President Barack Obama on targeted killing. Almost a year after three American citizens were killed in US drone ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Diplomacy is a delicate art that can determine the difference between war and peace. Anyone who has read about the negotiations between John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis understands just how important thoughtfulness and ...read more
Another big week here at The Daily Banter (our biggest traffic so far!). In case you missed it, here's what we covered. We looked at what Mitt Romney's fundraiser at Dick Cheney's house means for his campaign, and argued that Romney is now adopting the racist 'Southern ...read more
Welcome to this weeks edition of The Daily Banter mail bag! Today, Bob, Ben and Chez answer readers questions on the Democrat's tactics against the Republicans in Congress, whether we think Nancy Grace should be exiled to North Korea and how Mitt Romney is basically, well, ...read more
By Ben Cohen: If you wondered how nasty Mitt Romney was going to get in this Presidential election, the news that he is going to a fundraiser at Dick Cheney's house today should give you ample understanding of the type of campaign it will be going forward. From CBSNews: In one ...read more
From the Guardian: Florida senator Marco Rubio is the clear favourite to become Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running-mate, according to associate professor Jody Baumgartner who runs a model to help predict vice-presidential picks. Baumgartner's forecast comes as ABC ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: Well, that didn't take long. Following a week that saw President Obama publicly throw his weight behind same-sex marriage -- leading Newsweek to publish a for-shock-value-only cover declaring him "The First Gay President" -- his mortal enemies within the ...read more
In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer on Tuesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that the war in Iraq had not negatively impacted the world's view of the United States. He said: "I don't think that it damaged our reputation around the world....I just don't believe ...read more
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has now emerged as the front runner for the Republicans party's 2012 presidential nomination. From Gallup: To say this is worrying would be an understatement - this is positively terrifying. Perry represents the underbelly of GOP politics - he is a ...read more
Too much information. Mr. Cheney’s pump was placed near his heart. With most patients, a power line emerges about waist level and connects to a controller, a minicomputer that plugs into a pair of one-and-a-half-pound, 12-volt batteries. Patients wear a black mesh vest over ...read more
I wish people would just say that and move along. ...read more
Glenn Greenwald on the ridiculous pro-torture story the Washington Post is pushing now. Who are the Post's sources for this full-scale vindication of Dick Cheney's defense of torture? "Two sources who described the sessions, speaking on the condition of anonymity because much ...read more
I am totally surprised that worst vice president in U.S. history turned out to be full of it. Again. Strikingly, they provide little evidence for Cheney’s claims that the ‘enhanced interrogation’ program run by the CIA provided valuable information. In fact, throughout both ...read more
Sometimes it feels like the House Democrats are the only ones in Washington who remember the last eight years and what those people did to America. House Democrats said yesterday that they expect to launch a formal investigation into a secret CIA program that was not disclosed ...read more
But you knew that already. The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House ...read more
By David Glenn Cox It is well-documented that Joe Biden has been known to speak out of turn. Of course the flip side of such a reputation is the ability to say things meant in earnest and then to simply laugh them off. On Sunday the Vice President told George Stephanopoulos ...read more
Joe Scoldborough wanted Ed Schultz to fold when asked if he thought Cheney wants a terror attack to prove his point politically. Thankfully Ed told the truth. Cheney wants that, and his public record makes it pretty clear. (via) ...read more
I clearly don't agree with John McCain on practically every issue under the sun, but I'll say that he's been pretty consistent in his opposition to torture and in light of Cheney's torture defense speech today -- McCain remains so. And of course it's worth noting that in this ...read more
