Archive for December, 2009

In Washingtonian “inside the Beltway” terms, the most amazing aspect of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s new clout is that he is achieving it the old-fashioned way: talking about public policy. He is not running for President or any other office. He has not formed a PAC or a D.C. lobbying firm. He is not dishing on former colleagues, not spreading gossip, not settling scores. He is, instead, writing a memoir about his extensive career in public service, and giving occasional speeches and interviews, mostly on national and homeland security policy, long his central focus.

The organization – “Draft Dick Cheney 2012″ – launched on Friday, and unveiled their new Web site. Their aim: To convince the former vice president to seek the Republican presidential nomination in the next race for the White House.

?On the eve of the unveiling of the nation’s new Afghanistan policy, former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed President Barack Obama for projecting “weakness” to adversaries and warned that more workaday Afghans will side with the Taliban if they think the United States is heading for the exits.

??Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, it’s been hard to escape the impression that both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.

Agree or disagree with former Vice President Dick Cheney, you have to give him credit for this: He is giving the nation a bonus, campaign-style debate over national security, a full year after the presidential campaign ended.

Liz Cheney criticized President Obama’s foreign and domestic policies last night, saying that the United States needs a strong commander in chief, not a “global community organizer” who cannot decide whether to send more troops to Afghanistan.

Dick Cheney is blasting Barack Obama for plunging the presidency to a new low – by bowing to the Japanese emperor.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, has her eye on the governor’s seat in Texas, and she will pick up a rare endorsement this evening from former vice president Dick Cheney.