Posted on 11/18/2006 8:22:01 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Reading the Globe's Nov 18th piece about vice President Cheney, one can palpably feel their fingers being crossed, their wishes being cast into the wishing well, that Cheney is on the outs with this supposed "big demotion" the paper sees for his immediate future.
In short, will Rumsfeld's abrupt dismissal finally diminish Cheney's unprecedented dominance of Bush? Or did the always cunning vice president read the writing on the wall and decide that it was time for his good friend Rumsfeld to go?And typically, as with every story about the VP, one quotient missing in the analysis is the president himself, prosaically fitting into the the Cheney-as-puppetmaster story line the MSM has created for him. (Though, now they want to cast James Baker in Cheney's puppeteering shoes)
The Globe has even reached for the macabre, saying that the VP, "America's de facto prime minister" has been "eerily missing from public view".
IN THE 10 days since President Bush fired Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one figure is eerily missing from public view and public accounts of what occurred: Vice President Dick Cheney. As usual, America's de facto prime minister is either literally or metaphorically in an undisclosed location.Shades of Edgar Allan Poe, there, Globe.
But, then, they always have made Cheney out to be the Uncle Creepy of the Administration, eh?
They then go on to rehash the MSM's conventional "wisdom" that Cheney is out of favor because Rumsfeld has been terminated, assuming that Cheney's ideas on the Iraq war are finished.
Of course, this assumes that Bush has gone to his new nominee for the Secretary of Defense because of the defeat at the polls and as sudden a turn against his past policies -- even as Bush has repeatedly said since the elections that he has no intention of pulling out of Iraq.
What this story assumes is that Bush is so wishy washy that any wind will blow him from his course. It also assumes that Gates will be bringing a pull-out mentality and that he will bring a contrary opinion to the President's.
See, Bush is too stupid to have his OWN policy and be able to control his OWN administration. Right, Globe? He needs a Cheney, gates, or now a Baker to run it all for him, eh?
But, the MSM has decided to ignore the story that Bush was meeting with Gates on november 5th, BEFORE the elections, to sound him out for Rummy's job. It just isn't very sensible to expect that the president is bringing in a guy who will cause an abrupt about face on a policy that the President has made his cornerstone for most of his presidency.
But, that would deny the Bush-is-stupid story line that the MSM propagates, so they certainly won't walk down this road of analysis, you can be sure!
How many times did the SecDef tender his resignation? Three, four? "Abrupt," my a$$.
The Globe's editorial staff is a fine collection of richard heads.
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I appreciate you mentioning those additional points regarding Cheney. I was unaware of them, and your point is well taken.
I don't know, but it seems the Globe only refers to Cheney when it requires a sinister and brooding figure to color its pre-written storyline.
What is it the Boston Globe, NY Times and others don't get about Dick Cheney being elected, not appointed.
Demoted? You can't demote an elected official. Have you ever read the Constitution?
This paper is about to go belly-up, and I for one cannot wait.
Dick Cheney was largely sidelined first a bit after 9-11, and then after the Iraq war got tough. IMHO this signalled the first mistake and backing down of the Bush administration. Cheney is a knowledgeable savvy tough guy, exactly what the nation needed.
Demote as in replace him with someone else.
They lost one more when I left for Fairfield County, CT 2 years ago.
I have a few friends in NY...on Long Island...and they tell me that the GOP in New York period is long dead....
I could tell that by the elections this last time....I thought Jeanne Pirro was a qualified person to be State Attorney General, but the baby cumo that whines his way thru life won...what actually is he going to do for the State Of New York except what Spiter tells him to do...
I could go on for quite a while but you know just as much about this state as I do....and it isn't getting any better here in Pennsylvania with baby casey jr. whining his way thru with fast eddy telling him what to do....
You don't demote a guy like Dick Cheney.
We elected and then re-elected Cheney, along with President Bush. I don't see any reason we should replace him.
Someone once said the presidency is whatever the president makes it, and I think the same is true of the vice presidency: It is whatever the president makes it. Presidents can't "demote" their vice presidents in the purely technical sense, but they can decide their actual (not just technical) importance. If Cheney is powerful in the Bush Administration, it's because the president wanted it. If the president wanted to make Cheney irrelevant to policy decisions, he could do that too.
Unless he is impeached (God, I hope not), he would have to resign in order to be replaced. I've never met the man, but he strikes me as a guy who wouldn't run from a fight like that.
Not sure what you mean by that he campaigned tirelessly for Republican raising millions of dollars for them. Your comment makes not sense. Just go the the White House website and you will see countless speeches made on behalf of candidates.
You cannot replace an elected official they have to resign - Cheney will not resign
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