MUSCAT, Oman - Vice President Dick Cheney went fishing in the waters between Oman and Iran on Wednesday, borrowing the Sultan of Oman's 60-foot royal yacht for the mission.
A Cheney spokeswoman said the vice president, his wife Lynne, and daughter, Liz, a former State Department official who is traveling with her father as a private citizen, headed out under sunny skies into the Gulf of Oman on "Kingfish I," owned by Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
A little R&R on our dime. But why should that surprise anyone? This is what Dick Cheney thinks of two-thirds of the American public:
CHENEY: On the security front, I think there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress, that the surge has worked. That’s been a major success.
RADDATZ: Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.
CHENEY: So?
RADDATZ So? You don’t care what the American people think?
CHENEY: No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
Here's to hoping one of them hooks the other in the face.
Cheney preps for his day with a heaping serving of kitten croquets.
Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images
This -- I can't even call him a man -- this thing hates America and everything she stands for.
He's dedicated his life to destroying this country from the inside.
We are beset by terrorists intent on our destruction; but it's not Al Qaeda we have to fear, it's Dick Cheney and his friends.
Posted by: Gummo | March 19, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Perhaps the venal Veep will enjoy being blown off course by the November fluctuation.
Posted by: TF-MA | March 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Oooh, look at what he's eating, that can't be good for what's left of his cardio-vascular system. "Oh no Dick, you go ahead and take that last Hush Puppie."
Posted by: Capt. Bat Hussein Guano | March 19, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Ooooh, have a big ladle-ful of artery-clogging gravy, too.
Posted by: emma | March 19, 2008 at 11:43 AM
What an asshole.
I hope a big old fish jumps out of the strait and noms his haid off.
Posted by: four legs good | March 19, 2008 at 11:48 AM
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Cheney . . . ol' chum, ol' chum.
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(TIP: The best sharkbait has a lot of oil.)
Posted by: JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde | March 19, 2008 at 12:19 PM
I hope a good wind "blows him off course" into Iranian waters where he is captured and thrown in jail for the rest of his miserable life!
Can someone honestly tell me this insane motherfucker was not capable of orchestrating, influencing, enabling, approving (call it what you like) the events of 911?
Posted by: queek | March 19, 2008 at 12:22 PM
You won't hear dissent on that fact from me, Queek!
Elspeth
Posted by: Elspeth R | March 19, 2008 at 01:01 PM
Yep, Queek - what they "needed" was another Pearl Harbor and they "got" it. The wish fairy is good to them, eh? I detest this monster and do hope that, in his fishing, he meets up with a stingray. And it's all caught on film.
Posted by: Delphyne | March 19, 2008 at 01:38 PM
9/11 worked. therefore it can only be LIHOP.
dick, living down to his name daily.
Posted by: pansypoo | March 19, 2008 at 01:49 PM
Oh no Dick, you go ahead and take that last Hush Puppie
Never eat those at his house. Lynne makes his from real puppies.
Shorter Darth Cheney: Fuck you, peasants.
Posted by: sister of ye | March 19, 2008 at 01:52 PM
Queek ~ I've been saying that since 9/12 - well really, since 9/11 the moment I heard the news of the "terrorist attack". Unfortunately I spoke my thoughts aloud on the commuter bus I was riding, and drew a huge amount of glaring disapproval from other passengers. My thoughts remain unchanged. Despite the attempts of my NYC sister's challenges.
So here's my "Go Fuck Yourself" to Darth Cheney.
Too bad I don't have an in with the goddesses.
He'd be gone and so would his malevolent family.
Posted by: leslie | March 19, 2008 at 02:29 PM
fuck you mr. cheney,fuck you.
Posted by: kingweasil | March 19, 2008 at 02:44 PM
so...uh...Dick...then what exactly did you mean by "general consensus"?
Dick?
Dick.
Posted by: Daryl Shawn | March 19, 2008 at 02:44 PM
God, I hate that fucker. I really hate him. "fluctuations" my ass.
Posted by: dguzman | March 19, 2008 at 04:14 PM
Traveling "as a private citizen" you say? So when can we expect Liz's check in the mail to reimburse the government for her travel, and in exactly what amount?
Posted by: TeddySanFran | March 19, 2008 at 04:21 PM
may he die horribly.
Posted by: pansypoo | March 20, 2008 at 12:29 AM
Heart attack is too good for him. He deserves a long, slow, and very painful death.
Posted by: donna | March 20, 2008 at 02:46 AM
4LG,
Why do you hate the feesh?
Posted by: thepoliticalcat | March 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM
dguzman, as far as Cheney is concerned, it's not just fluctuations, it's fluctueuropeans and americans, too.
I'm sure many a citizen of this fine land, driven to insomnia by contemplating the horrors Dick hath wrought, has then lulled themselves to sleep by contemplating which of the various slow and painful deaths available would best suit the Cheneymonster.
Posted by: thepoliticalcat | March 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM