The fact remains that the Rethuglicans have won the Super-Trifecta... MONOPOLY CONTROL over ALL branches of US Government - (1. House, 2. White House, 3. Senate, 4. Supreme Court, 5.federal courts, 6. federal agencies like the EPA, immigration, and FEMA which are supposed to be above politics; 7. and of course almost monopoly control of the "4th Estate," the press/media) by relentlessly ACCUSING and CRITICIZING Democratic Party leaders, candidates, issues, and policies. Even issues and policies Americans LOVE, like Social Security, veteran's care, and education grants.
The Republican's CRITICISM and SMEAR-MONGERING of the Clinton White House was so bad, that for years "LINCOLN BEDROOM" was synonymous with "a SCANDAL!", even though there was NO scandal in a president and First Lady inviting their close personal friends (and, yes, supporters) to spend the night at the White House. Bush Sr., if not Bush Jr. had KEN LAY spend the night at the White House, and the US 'mainstream media' HAS even NEVER MENTIONED, much less TURNED-TO-SCANDAL, the Bush's overnight WH guest list!
This atrocious disparity between Republican ACCUSATIONS against Democrats, and Dick Cheney crying about "unfair" media coverage, of course reached its zenith with the Karl Rove-Karen Hughes orchestrated "WHITE HOUSE TRASHING SCANDAL," where the Bush-Cheney administration got the Washington Post and New York Times and network and cable media to broadcast the "WHITE HOUSE TRASHING SCANDAL!" for days, if not weeks on end.... WITHOUT ONE_SINGLE_PHOTOGRAPH of EVIDENCE of the so-called "trashing"!
<< When asked why he thinks the president doesn't get enough credit for the economy and the recent news that the nation has a 4.4 percent unemployment rate, Cheney said, "Well, you guys don't help," referring to the media.
"What's news is IF THERE'S BAD NEWS, and THAT GETS COVERAGE," he said. "But the good news that's out there, day after day after day, doesn't get as much attention." >>
(This from the Vice President whose administration inherited a BUDGET SURPLUS, PEACE and PROSPERITY, and was handed a National Security portfolio by the outgoing President, Vice President, and National Security Advisor, - "Al Qiada terrorism will be the greatest threat to America's security in the coming decade".... Whose administration did NOTHING about that threat to America's security until after the attacks of 9-11-2001, and has, to this day, STILL RECEIVED a FREE-PASS whitewash from the media-press for NOT finding and arresting the ANTHRAX TERRORIST.)
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Cheney: 'Full Speed Ahead' on Iraq
Vice President Tells ABC News That Election, Public Sentiment Will Not Influence War Policy
By ED O'KEEFE
Nov. 3, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2627805
Four days before the election, as Republican candidates battle to save their seats in Congress amid a backlash over the war in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney told ABC News the administration is going "full speed ahead" with its policy.
"We've got the basic strategy right," Cheney told George Stephanopoulos in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on "This Week."
Watch the full interview this Sunday morning, including the vice president's candid comments on John Kerry's gaffe this week and Hillary Clinton.
October was one of the deadliest months in Iraq for U.S. troops. Cheney said that while the administration's policy may not be popular, "This is the right thing for us to be doing."
In the most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, 57 percent of Americans said that the war was not worth fighting. The poll also showed President Bush's job approval rating dropped to 37 percent, the second-lowest mark of his presidency.
Cheney said that even with pollsters predicting that Democrats would likely make gains in both houses of Congress Tuesday, voter sentiment would not influence Bush's Iraq policy.
"It may not be popular with the public -- it doesn't matter in the sense that we have to continue the mission and do what we think is right. And that's exactly what we're doing," Cheney said. "We're not running for office. We're doing what we think is right."
First Reaction to Vanity Fair Report
Cheney also gave his first reaction to the Vanity Fair report that two of the Pentagon's strongest supporters of the war, Richard Perle and Ken Adelman, now say they would not have supported the invasion if they had known how incompetently the administration would handle it.
Cheney said, "I haven't seen the piece I'm not going to comment on it. I think there is no question that it is a tough war, but it is also the right thing to do," he said. "And it is very important that we complete the mission."
Cheney asserted that the anti-war message is coming primarily from the Democrats, despite their own policy disagreements.
"They haven't offered up a plan, but they have several different positions -- withdraw, withdraw at some future date, cut off funding," Cheney said. "The fact of the matter is, this is the right thing for us to be doing. We need to succeed here. It has a direct bearing on how we do around the world on the global war on terror."
On another subject, the vice president touted the Bush administration's economic policies, arguing that if Democrats take control of Congress, the tax cuts he and the president deem essential would not be extended. Cheney then complained that the White House had not been given enough credit on the economy, which he described as going "gangbusters."
When asked why he thinks the president doesn't get enough credit for the economy and the recent news that the nation has a 4.4 percent unemployment rate, Cheney said, "Well, you guys don't help," referring to the media.
"What's news is if there's bad news, and that gets coverage," he said. "But the good news that's out there, day after day after day, doesn't get as much attention."
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