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Emily, thanks for bringing up Dick Cheney's bragging; I thought I was doing OK without Jon Stewart, but now I see I was only fooling myself. Speaking of which, poor Mitt: He had to address the Mormon question, but then did so in a way that told us absolutely nothing about the faith, which made it seem like the less the rest of us know, the better. Since the No. 1 knock against Romney is that his beliefs are so flexible even he can barely keep track of them, I don't see how it helps to give a big speech that boils down to: "Don't stress; I'd jettison my closely held religious beliefs with no more of a backward glance than I gave my previous closely held beliefs on abortion and gay marriage." And if he was supposed to be charming me with his nod to "the profound ceremony of the Catholic Mass,'' he failed. (Glad you like our quaint and colorful folk ways. But can a ceremony even be profound? Pander better, please.) Maybe the most interesting thing about the speech was the intro, provided as it was by Poppy Bush. Is this as close to an endorsement as the Bushes can come without damaging their preferred candidate? Oh, but I forgot: The current commander in chief is pulling for Hillary.
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Dick Cheney has some observations in Politico about how his old House colleagues are faring under Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Most striking were his virtually taunting remarks of two men he described as friends from his own days in the House: Democratic Reps. John Dingell (Mich.) and John P. Murtha (Pa.).
... [H]e scoffed at the idea of two men who spent years accruing power showing so much deference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the big spending and energy debates of the year.
Murtha “and the other senior leaders … march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker,” Cheney said. “I’m trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn’t have happened.”
... When asked if these men had lost their spines, he responded, “They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.”
Obviously, if Dick still cares about his old buddies he will arrange to have some Viagra slipped into the congressional bean soup.
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