Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input.
Displeased with the former vice-president’s recent media appearances, Republican lawmakers say he’s hurting GOP efforts to reinvent itself after back-to-back electoral drubbings. …
Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, “He became so unpopular while he was in the White House that it would probably be better for us politically if he wouldn’t be so public…But he has the right to speak out since he’s a private citizen.”
Another House Republican lawmaker who requested anonymity said he wasn’t surprised that Cheney has strongly criticized Obama early in his term, but argued that it’s not helping the GOP cause.
One thing about Dick Cheney - he's never been concerned about being popular. George Bush has wisely chosen not to bark back at Obama as he misrepresents the record of the Bush Administration (it's not a classy thing for former presidents to criticize current presidents), but Cheney doesn't have the same restrictions. He doesn't want to see eight years of effort dismissed with lies and half-truths and wants to do something about it.
In addition, the GOP is acting like frightened kittens, desperately afraid to criticize The One lest the media call them names. Cheney can do that all day and he doesn't care what they say.
Somebody needs to call out Obama on his policies and lies, and if Cheney will do it when nobody else will, good.
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