Big Stick

Dick Cheney disparages House Democrats like John Murtha and John Dingell for "march[ing] to the tune of Nancy Pelosi" rather than "carrying the big stick" in the manner Cheney expected. He describes himself as "trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion" and comes up with the sniffy observation that in "the Congress I served in, that wouldn't have happened." Because, it seems, the sort of congress where you can cast votes in favor of keeping Nelson Mandela imprisoned isn't the sort of congress where stick-wielding men take their marching order from girls.

No word yet on whether John Conyers has contracted cooties.

Comments

"So, how exactly big is your stick, Mr. Vice-President?"

Posted by peep | December 7, 2007 12:29 PM

My sense is that both he and Junior have crossed over into this sitcom character state of being where any new action or statement should come with a laugh track background. Even their base now wants to change the channel. Such is the curse of lame duckiness but I don't think Dick or Jr even take themselves seriously any longer.

Posted by Condor | December 7, 2007 12:49 PM

I'm surprised Lord Cheney didn't advise Dingell and Murtha to just go up to Pelosi and say, "Go fuck yourself." I mean, that's his usual discourse in the Senate.

Posted by Traven | December 7, 2007 12:55 PM

"So, how exactly big is your stick, Mr. Vice-President?"

So glad you asked. It's big.

Posted by lemuel pitkin | December 7, 2007 1:49 PM

let's see: from 2001 through 2006, we had a republican house that did entirely and precisely what they were told to do by bush and cheney.

i'm sure cheney never once accused them of being eunuchs.

Posted by howard | December 7, 2007 2:17 PM

What a farcical statement. Isn't this guy's heart supposed to have exploded by now?

Posted by Jake H. | December 7, 2007 2:40 PM

Cheney, of course, avoided service in Vietnam. He got deferments because he was married, and then because he was a father. So he was literally hiding behind women.

Murtha served in the Marines in Vietnam, and Dingell in the Army during WWII. So who's the coward, Dick?

Posted by Dave | December 7, 2007 3:21 PM

Isn't Cheney's approval rating like 18%? So, who gives a rip what he thinks.

Posted by dead beat | December 7, 2007 3:22 PM

The medical indication of irregular heartbeat in Cheney was in fact the first medical evidence OF a heart in Cheney.

Until that time, it was presumed he was working on clockwork like the assassin in "Hellboy" and had sand for blood.

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | December 7, 2007 7:11 PM

Quite a sexual subtext running throughout the Politico interview, climaxing w/ Cheney's reference to the Iranian's "long tent in the pole" for nuclear enrichment. More at http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2007/12/cheney-gets-jiggy-with-politico.html

Posted by Asp | December 16, 2007 9:07 PM