It is going to come as quite a blow to George W. Bush when he finds out that Dick Cheney was faking his orgasms for their entire second term together because Cheney is now telling anyone who will listen to him what a fucking pussy Bush was:
Cheney’s disappointment with the former president surfaced recently in one of the informal conversations he is holding to discuss the book with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues. By habit, he listens more than he talks, but Cheney broke form when asked about his regrets.
"In the second term, he felt Bush was moving away from him," said a participant in the recent gathering, describing Cheney’s reply. "He said Bush was shackled by the public reaction and the criticism he took. Bush was more malleable to that. The implication was that Bush had gone soft on him, or rather Bush had hardened against Cheney’s advice. He’d showed an independence that Cheney didn’t see coming. It was clear that Cheney’s doctrine was cast-iron strength at all times — never apologize, never explain — and Bush moved toward the conciliatory."
And now comes the ugly unsealed divorce records just like Jack & Jeri Ryan:
"If he goes out and writes a memoir that spills beans about what took place behind closed doors, that would be out of character," said Ari Fleischer, who served as White House spokesman during Bush’s first term.
Yet that appears to be precisely Cheney’s intent. Robert Barnett, who negotiated Cheney’s book contract, passed word to potential publishers that the memoir would be packed with news, and Cheney himself has said, without explanation, that "the statute of limitations has expired" on many of his secrets. "When the president made decisions that I didn’t agree with, I still supported him and didn’t go out and undercut him," Cheney said, according to Stephen Hayes, his authorized biographer. "Now we’re talking about after we’ve left office. I have strong feelings about what happened. . . . And I don’t have any reason not to forthrightly express those views."
Tentatively titled Killing Some Arabs, Cheney’s book will describe his estrangement from Bush, how sad and isolated he was, and it will document what it is like to shoot a man in the face. Oh, and it will conclude:
For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate




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Darth Cheney is consistent in his lust for money. He’d sell his daughters into sex-slavery to the bin Ladens for the right price. Selling his organ-grinder monkey out? No loss of sleep at all.
Hang me the popcorn, Maude! It’s about to get UGLY (just the way I like my GOP inter-party knockdowns). Maybe someone can get Jerry Springer to moderate?
No, it will conclude with
And then in my dream I looked down at myself and saw in what rags I stood; and I am a child again, begging on the threshold of eternity.
I can’t wait to see what secrets warrant the “statute of limitations” comment. I may now have a smidge of admiration for Bush for standing up to this nutcase. God knows where we would be if he didn’t
I thought the working title was “I Swear to Jesus I’ll Kill Every Fucking One of You!”
No problem with the cries of hate; they will be louder than he ever dreamed they could be. I’ll certainly do my best.
It was interesting to read the Fapping Republic response to this. It was about evenly divided between:
“The Washington Post is fabricating the rift. See how few direct quotes there are? Cheney’s lurve for Bush is true!”
“Of course Cheney hated that RINO Bush who didn’t even invade Iran.”
So will there be a Cheney faction among conservatives separate from the birther/death panel faction?
Shorter Cheney Memoir: Everything was great, as long as the little bastard did what I told him to. Then he started thinking he was the fucking President of the United States.
So Cheney was supposed to be the boss. But we knew that.
They will remain united in their lunacy because they rely on each others’ shared belief in the Bizzaro World they’ve hallucinated-up for themselves to live in. If had the ambition to go back and get a PhD I’d write my thesis on how conservatism has ceased to be a political movement and has instead become a mass psychosis.
This one stinks of the popular “conservatism cannot fail, it can only BE failed” dictum GOPers are fond of. Bush wound up so unpopular that they’re basically throwing him overboard (he don’t care; he’s already drunk poolside right now), in hopes that (the even more unpopular) Cheney can reboot Republicans in His Own Image. Which, face it, is True Republicanism. Just look around.
“Cheney himself has said, without explanation, that ‘the statute of limitations has expired’ on many of his secrets.” I take that to mean: you total tools in the media are about to be spun with whatever new bullshit Cheney feels he needs to conjure up and spew forth to further his agenda. His secrets will remain his secrets until and unless we all agree to waterboard him.
While I am sadly accepting that Cheney’s long overdue subjection to the torture he so loves may never happen, I am also not deluding myself that a cynical bastard like him would ever feel any compulsion to “spill the beans” about anything. He’ll take all that nasty shit with him to the grave — the only question is: how much more damage will he be allowed to do before he finally does us all the favor of shutting the lid on his casket for good?
You’re right: full speed ahead, boys! If we hit that ol’ iceberg hard enough it’ll shatter into a million pieces.
Oh, Ari, you poor fucker. Loyalty is what other people owe to Cheney, not what Cheney owes to anyone else.
I can’t believe he’s still working that out. Damn if I don’t almost feel sorry for him.
I’m putting that one on a framed sampler, swear to God.
Coming soon to the Political Horror section of your local bookstore.
Aw. He’s still shoppin’ it around to publishers. Ginnin’ up the interest. Hopin’ for the big score.
After all those years sacrificing himself to government service and the greater good (with just one little hop into the Halliburton tank) he’s a poor old duffer. How can he live comfortably in his retirement with only his mansion in McLean; a spread in Wyomin’; a mansion on the Chesapeake; gummint pension.
He needs cash, dammit!
I just started reading Anna Karenina today, otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten the joke. Coincidences like this make me wonder how many other such obscure references and inside jokes I miss.
Cheney is a war criminal. He should be treated as one treats war criminals.
first Bush doesn’t do reacharounds and then goes soft on him … what’s a Cheney to do?
See, even Darth is embarassed to be published by Regnery, since that is such the obvious go-to choice.
The lines between literature and reality have dissipated as seamlessly as my mental to-do list upon sitting at my desk.
My theory is that the guy is dying and is determined to get his version of history out there before he goes.
He doesn’t have anything else to lose, and wants to leave a nice chunk of change to his family.
I just hope he can get The Cure to open for him at some of his talks
My theory is that the CIA can no longer provide him with fresh baby’s blood to drink and so he’s going broke buying the stuff on the Black Market.
Proposed title:
The Shotgun Diaries: My Life as a Dick.
-G
Clinically.
Insane.
Anyone like this with a halfway loving family would get him professional help and keep him away from memoir-producing technology and technologists. The Cheney women, though, just encourage his dive into the miasma of mental illness.
Thank the goddess our country survived him; sometimes I don’t think we deserve it, but lordy what salvation to have escaped his reign intact.
aka “A Short Drop With A Quick Stop”
Has anyone ever done a financial analysis of these Right Wing tomes? It pisses me off no end to see one after another of them sitting atop the NYT best seller lists, but then I remind myself that such status is probably due to bulk sales to RW “think tanks” or whatever.
Do these piece of crap actually make any $$$ for either the author or publisher?
I think the Times does ID books that are on the best seller list via bulk purchase, which is how most of the wing nut authors get there.
Then in a month or so, you will see the ads giving away free copies of [fill-in-the-blanks] “NY Times Best Seller” with your donation/purchase.
Cheney doesn’t need the money. He made a killing (both literally and figuratively) at Halliburton, up to and including the stock options held while he was VP. He is doing this for another reason – ego, belief, politics, history…. or because he is a dick to the end.
The Cheney memoirs: “…and then I asked with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and I said yes I will Yes.”