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Golf, too? If there was one sport you'd think might be immune from the liberal slant that has invaded too much of sports reporting, it's golf. The fairways-and-greens guys are known for generally being Republicans. But out of the blue [green?] on a Golf Channel show this afternoon, host Brandel Chamblee took a cheap shot at Dick Cheney with a rather nasty hunting reference. Chamblee, who before retiring from the PGA Tour had one win in 370 career starts, was discussing with co-host Rich Lerner the putting woes of the affable Jason Gore . . . View video here.

Two weeks ago, Obama's hit men Axelrod and Emanuel went after the Bush administration on Afghanistan claiming the Bush team's efforts were adrift, they did not ask any key questions about the war in Afghanistan, and that Obama officials had to form a strategy from scratch. Emanuel told CNN: "It's clear that basically we had a war for eight years that was going on, that's adrift, that we're beginning at scratch, just at the starting point... Last week Cheney fought back: Recently, President Obama’s advisors have decided that it’s easier to blame the Bush Administration than support our troops. This...

Is Chris Matthews feeling pressure to keep up with the Olbermanns when it comes to flinging invective at conservatives? On this evening's Hardball, discussing Dick Cheney's statement—-made at a dinner at which he received an award—that Pres. Obama is dithering on Afghanistan, an apparently incensed Matthews sputtered [unexpurgated in the original]: "What G-D award . . . are they giving these guys?" View video here.

Separated at birth? MSNBC is neither a news network nor a ratings success, but it is good for one thing: taking the pulse of the Left. Judging by his numerous recent appearances, the Left has a new It-boy: Rep. Alan Grayson, D-FL, who made headlines by saying the Republican health care plan is for you to "die quickly." Last night’s edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews gave Grayson another opportunity to display his cultivated intellect. Asked by Matthews to respond to Dick Cheney’s criticism of Obama’s Afghanistan (non-)policy, Grayson chose to uncork some Don Rickles one-liners: Well, my response...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke this evening at the Center For Security Policy dinner at Union Station in DC. For thirty minutes he delivered an impressively scathing review of President Obama’s blatant foreign policy and national security blunders. Undoubtedly, his unrelenting onslaught of bitter disdain will elicit retaliation from the notoriously hyper-sensitive Obama administration. (videos below) His speech at the think tank included such gems as “Having announced his Afghanistan strategy in March, President Obama now seems afraid to make a decision, and unable to provide his commander on the ground with the troops he needs to complete the...

After this weekend saw all the usual suspects like Rahm and Axelrod spouting to all the Sunday morning news shows (except Fox of course) about how today’s Afghanistan issues are all Bush’s fault because he turned over nothing except 8 years of being “adrift” there, Dick Cheney called them on it today in a major way. "Recently, President Obama’s advisors have decided that it’s easier to blame the Bush Administration than support our troops. This weekend they leveled a charge that cannot go unanswered. The President’s chief of staff claimed that the Bush Administration hadn’t asked any tough questions about...

Over the weekend Obama's hit men Axelrod and Emanuel went after the Bush administration on Afghanistan claiming the Bush team's efforts were adrift, they did not ask any key questions about the war in Afghanistan, and that Obama officials had to form a strategy from scratch. Emanuel told CNN that the president is "asking the questions that have never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side." "It's clear that basically we had a war for eight years that was going on, that's adrift, that we're beginning at scratch, just at the...

About a dozen retired generals and admirals, trying to add momentum to President Barack Obama’s effort to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, are accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz of scaremongering about the dangers of closing it. “It’s up to all of us to say these arguments advanced by Cheney and his acolytes are nonsense and that really what they’re doing is undermining our national security by delaying the date at which Guantanamo is closed,” retired Brig. Gen. James Cullen, a former chief judge of the Army’s Court of Criminal Appeals, told POLITICO Tuesday. “Some...

The Associated Press must have thought that it had quite a story on its hands when it published "Protest brews over Cheney center at Univ. of Wyo." After all, it had Dearth Cheney, protesters, a university and a petition drive to keep the evil VP at bay. It was all the makings of a good story of "controversy" of the Bush/Cheney years. Apreantly the era of hope-n-change has not quite depleted the APs desire to rehash the Bush years. As it happens, the Cheney family is donating $3.2 million to the University of Wyoming for the new Cheney International Center...

As you sit reading this, former Vice President Cheney is on a two month surge of popularity. President Barack Obama, on the other hand, is doing his best Wile E. Coyote impression with no brakes on the rocket car, and has just careened over the edge of the fifty-foot cliff. So what has boosted the former Vice President anywhere from 8-10%, while watching the President nose dive 11-14%?

WASHINGTON -- It’s no surprise that former Vice President Dick Cheney is opposed to the Justice Department’s decision to investigate the torture of prisoners during the Bush-Cheney administration. After all, Cheney has acknowledged that he was "aware" of waterboarding (simulated drowning) of detainees to get them to talk. It’s fair speculation that the orders for this method of torture came from on high. And in the Bush-Cheney administration, no one was higher than the vice president. Cheney has blasted Attorney General Eric Holder’s appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate abuse of prisoners. The duty fell to veteran Connecticut lawyer...

WASHINGTON, DC – Another sex scandal has rocked a South Carolina conservative. The trail of evidence has led reporters to erotic fiction authored by Dick Cheney. Kristin Maguire, a respected South Carolina conservative, has been discovered to be the author of hardcore erotic short fiction. Maguire was the Chair of the Board of Education for years, and appointed by Mark Sanford. Investigation has uncovered several stories written by Maguire under the pen name “Bridget Keeney.” Maguire was also a devout advocate of “abstinence only” sex education. Further investigation of websites Maguire would frequent and chat room exchanges reveal even more...

Oh, I’m sure some of you folks are laughing out loud at the idea that ex-vice president Dick Cheney considered by some to be an ideal candidate for president in 2012. But that’s only because you aren’t a rabid right-winger who thinks the only thing wrong with the Bush administration is that they didn’t torture enough Muslims. Believe me, they are out there: Craig Shirley, a longtime Republican strategist who often has his finger on the pulse of the party’s base, concurred while also noting that Cheney can galvanize conservatives in ways few other current figures can. “In 2009, there...

Here is video of James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal saying former Vice-President Dick Cheney just may be the best candidate for the GOP to run for President in 2012. Taranto was raising the question, "What if Dick Cheney is right" on the issue of using "enhanced interrogation" techniques on terrorists to keep America safe. The MSNBC hosts were incredulous that Taranto was saying anything positive about Dick Cheney, and launched into their usual attacks on Cheney about "torture" etc. But Taranto flatly said there is no evidence of Obama claims that "enhanced interrogations" made the U.S. less safe,...

In all honesty, I've have to admit to no small amount of satisfaction at the direction in which the Republican Party MIGHT be headed if current party leaders are willing to take their cue from the actions and behaviors of two conservative stalwarts named Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin. For those who were living on another planet the last few days, the former Vice President just fired off another broadside from the battleship Cheney's 16-inch guns, basically calling Barack Obama gutless in the fight against the jihadist (and Islamofascist, to be honest) threat. He also made sure there was no...

I had a chance to watch the Dick Cheney interview on yesterday's Fox News Sunday broadcast with host Chris Wallace, who was excellent as always. All I have to say is that I'm certainly glad I'm not on the bad side of Cheney, for he's what we in the military used to call "born again hard." … And this is why I really admire the guy and think that he's far more a figurative Prince Valiant than any sort of Prince of Darkness. Unless you happen to be an Al Qaeda baddie captured by American military or CIA-type forces, that...

CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Mr. Vice President, welcome back to "FOX News Sunday." RICHARD CHENEY, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's good to be back, Chris. WALLACE: This is your first interview since Attorney General Holder named a prosecutor to investigate possible CIA abuses of terror detainees. What do you think of that decision? CHENEY: I think it's a terrible decision. President Obama made the announcement some weeks ago that this would not happen, that his administration would not go back and look at or try to prosecute CIA personnel. And the effort now is based upon the inspector...

The leftist cable programs have been, for some time now, completely fixated upon the idea of prosecuting members of the administration of former President George Bush--especially former Vice-President Dick Cheney--for their role in the enhanced interrogation techniques (or, “torture,” in the leftist lexicon) of captured Islamist terrorists. From far-left Rachel Maddow to ultra-left Amy Goodman and her Marxist Democracy Now! network, there has been a concerted effort to link Cheney’s name with the “torture” of prisoners’ accused of being al-Qaeda operatives and sympathizers. Goodman’s Democracy Now!, for example, reported last week that a recently released 2004 CIA report on prisoner...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday sharply criticized the Obama administration’s decision to investigate the abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency as he delivered a forceful defense of the full range of interrogation techniques used by intelligence officers. Broadcast just six days after Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. appointed a federal prosecutor to examine the abuse of detainees, Mr. Cheney described the use of waterboarding and other coercive methods — including threatening detainees with a gun and a drill — as legal and crucial elements of the counterterrorism war. “I knew about the waterboarding, not...

Just when viewers became exhausted by TV's gavel-to-shovel coverage of Ted Kennedy's funeral, along came former Vice President Dick Cheney to stir the pot. Cheney gained national attention with his spirited attack on Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to investigate charges that CIA interrogators allegedly tortured suspected terrorists. It's an opportune time, then, to glance back at the careers of both men, who have spent their lives in public service. Despite his checkered past, Kennedy has always been a media darling, while Cheney has been portrayed as both a hero (as Secretary of Defense during the Gulf War) and a...

Here is video of Vice-President Dick Cheney talking with Chris Matthews on Fox News Sunday where he said he does believe that Democrats are soft on National Security. He also said that they have become so partisan that the pro-defense wing of the Democratic Party has "faded," which Cheney said "worries me." . . . . . (Watch Video)

Dick Cheney: "It offends the hell out of me".... Thank God for Cheney....

"Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell's truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to go after the "rough men" who, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night, allegedly went too far in frightening Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, engineer of the September 2001 massacres. Yet, it seems now indisputable that those CIA interrogators, with their rough methods, got vital intelligence that saved American lives, as Dick Cheney has consistently contended. According to The Washington Times, which reviewed the newly...

Here is a brief clip from an exclusive Fox News Sunday interview to air this weekend in which former Vice-President Dick Cheney said the approach of the Obama Administration on National Security should have been to go to those in the Bush Administration, the military, and the CIA and ask them "How have you kept America safe" since the September 11 attacks? Instead, Cheney says they are going after the very people who have helped to keep America safe. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney discusses the CIA investigation on "FOX News Sunday." The full interview airs this weekend.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney released a statement Monday night about the CIA documents and the coming Justice Department investigation. The documents released Monday clearly demonstrate that the individuals subjected to Enhanced Interrogation Techniques provided the bulk of intelligence we gained about al Qaeda. This intelligence saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks. These detainees also, according to the documents, played a role in nearly every capture of al Qaeda members and associates since 2002. The activities of the CIA in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by al Qaeda to launch...

Cheney: new doubts about Obama By: Mike Allen August 25, 2009 07:51 AM EST Former Vice President Dick Cheney said in a statement Tuesday that the Obama administration's decision to name a prosecutor to look into Bush-era interrogations of suspected terrorists should foster "doubts about this administration’s ability to be responsible for our nation’s security.” "The people involved deserve our gratitude," Cheney said. "They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions." Cheney maintains that records released this week show that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques "provided the bulk of intelligence we gained about al...

I don't know if any of us 'dumb' Republicans and conservatives can remember, but there was a large uproar regarding the United States giving no-contract bids to Halliburton, which just so happened to have been run by Vice President Dick Cheney. Sounds fishy? Well, what was conveniently left out is that Cheney owned no stock in the company and that the company's gains wouldn't affect his income. But what about Obama destroying the "culture of corruption" and making sure that special interests and lobbyists were not a part of the new Washington elite. Well, it appears that that rosy talk...

The Cheney ChroniclesAugust 17, 2009Robert CostaSummertime in Wyoming is usually quite pleasant for the Cheney family. Last Thursday, the day before Lynne Cheney’s 68th birthday party, the Washington Post soured spirits just a bit with this headline: “Cheney Uncloaks His Frustration With Bush.� The front-page story detailed, with the help of numerous unnamed “associates,� how former vice president Dick Cheney’s upcoming book will supposedly open a “second front� against “Cheney’s White House partner of eight years, George W. Bush.� Team Cheney was not amused.“From the first sentence, the piece was clearly biased and inaccurate,� Mary Matalin, Cheney’s former White House...

Talk about your staged distractions. Interesting, isn’t it, how calls for an investigation of Dick Cheney and the CIA neatly coincide with polls that show a sharp drop for support of Barack Obama. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate for congress to investigate why on earth a program to capture or kill top leaders Al Qaeda wasn’t operational in the first place?

When Vice-President Dick Cheney had private meetings with Oil Company executives (the National Energy Policy Development Group) to help him make recommendations about energy policy, all hell broke loose, Congress even had hearings about the matter, in the end the meetings were kept secret and congress complained: Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who posed the question about the task force, said he will ask the Justice Department today to investigate. "The White House went to great lengths to keep these meetings secret, and now oil executives may be lying to Congress about their role in the Cheney task force," Lautenberg said.....The...

Are you ready for a shock? The Bush Administration authorized the CIA to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden and other top Al Qaeda leaders. GASP! The next thing you know, there will be a shocking revelation that professional wrestling is fixed. And now the hero of the Karl Rove indictment scoop of May 12, 2006 wants an investigation of Dick Cheney for somehow withholding from Congress something which was already published in the New York Times and which everybody down to small kids already knew---a program to kill or capture terrorists. Police captain Louis Renard is shocked, shocked,...

Support nationalized health care! Ain't gonna cost you nuthin. We'll stick rich guys like Dick Cheney with the bill! That was Ed Schultz's brazen appeal to something-for-nothing class warfare, made on his MSNBC show this evening. Schultz's make-Cheney-pay plea was the subject of his "Op Ed." View video here.

Okay, so I’ve had internet problems and staying abreast of the news has been a problem. So, I’m willing to concede that maybe I’m missing something. But, from what I can tell this Cheney scandal story (much hyped in our little New York Times digest thingamajig), is the mother of all nothingburgers. It’s hard for me not to see it as a ploy by Democrats to distract from the fact that the stimulus bill is a dud, healthcare is going badly and cap-and-trade looks like a disaster. The base always enjoys beating up on Cheney and the press likes that...

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), claiming she no longer knows what is going on inside her own brain, yesterday challenged Congress to investigate…whether or not she knows anything at all. “I mean, like, really. Do I Know? Did I know? Did I not know? When did I know or not know? Will I ever know? It’s…like…really confusing to me,” she said, standing at the podium on the floor of the House twiddling her hair, picking at a front tooth, her vacant gaze following a speck of dust floating past the podium as she spoke. When Rep. Mary Bono...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney is getting a "bum rap" over reports that he ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress, two former U.S. intelligence officials told CNN Monday. Former Vice President Cheney reportedly told the CIA to withhold information about a counterterrorism program. According to both officials, any intelligence program of "great sensitivity" is first approved by the White House after a series of meetings. In any such situation, once the administration decides to pursue a covert program, there is discussion on whether Congress needs to be briefed, the officials...

The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that running for political office is on her horizon. "It's something I very well may do," said Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney, a lawyer and State Department appointee who has worked on two Republican presidential campaigns. Ms. Cheney, 44, has emerged as one of the strongest defenders of the effectiveness and legality of Bush-Cheney policies on enhanced interrogation methods. More recently, she and her father have become two of the most outspoken critics of President Obama's position on terrorism and other national security issues, which has led Republicans to consider her a...

...I’d be willing to bet that a lot of the Democrats yelling about this “secret” program have known about it for years...

Here is an ABC News report on the New York Times claim today that former Vice-President Dick Cheney ordered the CIA not to disclose a top-secret intelligence gathering program to the U.S. Congress. The report has Democrats in Congress clamoring for a House investigation into the matter. I believe Dick Cheney put the defense of the United States first and foremost. I will give him the benefit of the doubt until I see evidence he violated the law, and it will take a lot more than a New York Times report to make me think ill of him. . ....

Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project By SCOTT SHANE 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 intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday. The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy. Mr. Panetta, who...

Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) claims secret activities occurred under the watch of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Rep. Eshoo says she can't think of a better way to spend the money of taxpayers than to investigate if Cheney ran a secret assassination ring. "This must be investigated," Eshoo said.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney told The Washington Times' America's Morning News radio show that he is a strong believer in Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and that the general is doing what needs to be done. "But what he says concerns me: That there is still a continuing problem. One might speculate that insurgents are waiting as soon as they get an opportunity to launch more attacks.

Washington—Having had enough of Limbaugh’s criticism of Colin Powell, Tom Ridge laid down the gauntlet on Rush Limbaugh, and evicting him from the Republican Party. The event took place after the interview on CSPAN’s Washington Journal where Ridge took a strong stance, supporting Colin Powell and blaming Limbaugh and Dick Cheney for having “a mindset,” that doesn’t foster unity.

President Obama: "I would argue that our policies are making the American people safer, and that some of the policies that he's {Cheney] promoted in the past have not." Transcript below.SMITH: Leon Panetta intimated the former vice president was playing politics with national security issues. The former president has intoned his own displeasure with some of your policy changes. I think they feel like some of the things that you've done, in fact, are treacherous. OBAMA: Well, I think when it comes to Vice President Cheney, he and I have a deep disagreement about what's required to keep the American...

There was a tell-tale moment during Ed Schultz's repulsive rant on today's Morning Joe. In the course of alleging that Dick Cheney wants Americans to die in a terrorist attack, Schultz boasted: "I got a lot of support when I said that on the Ed program, I got a lot of support overnight when I said it again." [H/t reader Melody and Mitchell Blatt.] Translation: the ratings-starved Schultz will say pretty much anything if it garners him a few more eyeballs on the paranoid-lefty fringe. Here's Schultz spewing his bile . . . View video here.

CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point." Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney "smells some blood in the water" on the issue of national security. ... Last month the former vice president offered a withering critique of Obama's policies and a defense of the Bush administration on the same day that Obama made a major speech about national security. Panetta said of Cheney's...

The extent to which we're in an Age of Worship can be gleaned from a howler at the D-Day commemoration, in which Gordon Brown--woefully overpromoted as Britain's prime minister--referred to Omaha Beach as "Obama Beach." Yes, in different circumstances this would qualify as a mere slip of the tongue, and be left at that; but the ignominious YouTube avatar of that moment has turned Brown into a species of hack comedian, causing the world to snigger and cackle. Watching him say "Obama Beach" again and again--inherent cruelty makes one hit "replay"--one learns, right away, of his state of mind. Brown...

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Dick Cheney have little in common politically, but they receive almost identical image ratings from the American public. According to a May 29-31 Gallup Poll, 37% of Americans have a favorable view of Cheney and 34% have a favorable view of Pelosi. Cheney's improved ratings are mainly due to the views of independents: the percentage viewing him favorably rose from 21% in March to 37% today. There was also a slight increase in his favorable rating from Republicans, from 64% to 70%. Pelosi's decline since last fall is seen equally in...

Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the harsh techniques used on detainees. The Cheney-led briefings came at some of the most critical moments for the program, as congressional oversight committees were threatening to investigate or even terminate the techniques, according to lawmakers, congressional officials, and current and former intelligence officials. Cheney's role in helping handle intelligence issues in the Bush administration -- particularly his advocacy for...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney did speak to members of Congress about the Bush administration's interrogation program in an effort to maintain support for the enhanced techniques used on detainees, Cheney's office confirmed Wednesday. "Vice President Cheney was and remains a strong supporter of our enhanced interrogation program. The program gained valuable intelligence and saved lives. Given his broad involvement in national security issues, it would have been surprising if he hadn't discussed this program with members of Congress," reads a statement provided to FOX News by Cheney's office. According to a Washington Post report out Tuesday, Cheney oversaw at...