The New Cheney
Washington Free Beacon,
by
Matthew Continetti
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
5/4/2019 12:24:06 PM
I can´t think of a better illustration of our partisan divide than the reactions to Attorney General William Barr´s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Democrats are furious at Barr´s defense of his rollout of the Mueller report and his assertions of executive power. Some Democrats want Barr to resign, others want him to be impeached, and Nancy Pelosi says he´s guilty of lying to Congress. Republicans have found a hero. Barr is the new Dick Cheney: a stocky, bespectacled, confrontational, blunt, intelligent, unapologetically conservative, experienced, and high-powered official who believes in and fights for the office of
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/4/2019 12:26:54 PM (No. 77128)
FTA:
What´s behind conservative support for Cheney and Barr is their lack of embarrassment. Most Washingtonians, no matter their party, find it important to be held in esteem by the city´s tastemakers, who are overwhelmingly liberal. Not these two. The classic Cheney moment was his 2004 exchange with Pat Leahy on the Senate floor. Cheney complained that Leahy had called him a war profiteer. Leahy responded that Cheney had said he was a bad Catholic. So Cheney ended the conversation by telling Leahy to perform a physically impossible four-letter act. "You´d be surprised at how many people liked that," Cheney recollected in a 2010 interview. "It´s sort of the best thing I ever did." He´s selling himself short.
Barr’s smackdown of Blumenthal warmed hearts across the nation...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/4/2019 2:08:01 PM (No. 77139)
Barr is Barr. Why does he need to be Cheney?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/4/2019 4:27:09 PM (No. 77125)
It´s rather simple actually. Conservatives value people who speak to rational actions that follow law and freedom. We want people to say what they are for and then act based on that.
Most people go to Washington saying one thing, then try to play the popularity and influence game. Once in power, they veer from their promises until it is time to get re elected. It´s not surprising that´s what they do since the whole system is now structured to reinforce that behavior but it´s not how things are supposed to work. Voters know it is going on but have little choice between a couple people who behave the same lousy way.
When the rare person like Cheney or Barr or Trump come along, we treasure them.
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Nevadadad46 5/4/2019 7:05:50 PM (No. 77134)
No. cheney has nothing at all in comparison to Barr. Cheney was smart and mouthy, all right. But, Barr is far more nuanced and secure in his convictions. Cheny was small potatoes, getting into fights with lightweights and being led around by the nose by that idiot GW. Cheney was behind the total wreck Gulf War II turned out to be.
Barr is a man´s man - Totally unafraid, and impossible to rattle. Barr is a man of few words. He understands the value of cutting these jokers off from their pablum of a fight. His one-word responses are absolutely numbingly uproarious. Democrats fear him more than they fear Donald Trump- and for very good reasons. Barr really is out to get them.
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planetgeo 5/5/2019 7:33:32 AM (No. 77131)
Can you imagine how much of this nonsense would have been stopped in its evil tracks if Barr had been AG from the start of Trump´s term? What a nightmare this has been with Rip Van Sessions in charge of DOJ.
I suppose it´s too much to hope that the invertebrate RINOs can now see what having a spine can do for you when dealing with the spittle-flying Democrats.
I´d award Barr two ears and a tail if I could conjure up what a torero who fights jackasses is called. A "burrero"? (Note to self: ask the young bartender.)
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 5/5/2019 8:08:33 AM (No. 77133)
"Why SHOULD you have them ?"
Same quality response as "Come and take it !"
James Earl Jones in white face.
I love this guy.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/5/2019 8:18:23 AM (No. 77140)
I don’t give a rip which one of these men is more like the other or isn’t like the other. I love them both!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GO3 5/5/2019 8:55:53 AM (No. 77132)
The wreck that was Gulf War II had many players the least of which was Cheney. Let us count the ways: GW, Rumsfeld, Myers, (Sitzkrieg) Casey, Powell, out of control intel agencies, the duplicitous US congress, et al. I maintain if Cheney wasn´t ignored the situation would have been quite different.
If both Cheney as SecDef and Schwarzkopf had been allowed to prosecute Gulf War I to total victory the tragic Gulf War II would have not occurred. The decision to stop short was portrayed in the media, which was totally sympathetic to Powell as CJCS, was a calm logical process agreed to by all parties involved. In truth, Schwarzkopf and Cheney were furious, but of course followed the CINC´s orders.
I´m not that familiar with Barr other than recent developments. If he´s on par with Cheney that suits me fine.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
starboard 5/5/2019 9:59:29 AM (No. 77143)
A word that describes both Cheney and Barr is gravitas. Both men own that quality.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/5/2019 10:20:51 AM (No. 77127)
From Clarice Feldman this morning:
Not since Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have I seen such terse, justifiable dismissal of blather and not since Edwin Meese have a seen a Republican attorney general who wasn’t a timid wretch.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/tragedy_tomorrow_comedy_tonight.html
Clarice does not mince words. Her entire article was posted earlier today.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
gone2pot 5/5/2019 10:39:46 AM (No. 77135)
WHEN the criminals involved in the criminal coup to overthrow and destroy a duly elected president; from Obama to Hillary to Comey to Mueller to Fusion GPS to Perkins Couie to ALL the FISA judges are serving their full sentences for their crimes, and the innocent lives they already destroyed get completely fixed, THEN I´ll be impressed with Barr and not until. Right now, he´s just one of the deep state players full of fury, signifying nothing. Show me the money kids. Until then it´s all kabuki. I´ve seen this movie since 1995.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
coldoc 5/5/2019 10:51:27 AM (No. 77141)
He´s a nice contrast to his narcoleptic predecessor, but time will tell if he not just another blowhard resident of the swamp. I remain skeptical but sincerely ask he prove to be what we hope him to be, and do it quickly. America is running out of patience with these seditious criminals.
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Strike3 5/5/2019 11:59:19 AM (No. 77142)
The fact that the journalists keep quoting that the public does not favor impeachment proves that many polls have been taken. Every time I saw such nonsense and my response was requested I ignored the ridiculous request. Imagine if they polled the entire nation and every person submitted a response. The eighty percent of us who are not brain dead would overwhelm the pollsters.
I admire Barr because he is showing Congress the respect due them - NONE. Cheney did the same thing. Both men are smart and couragious but were involved in different circumstances. The comparison is of personal qualities, not actions.
Gulf War II was progressing satisfactorily, considering the complications and the outside aid of terrorist promoters like Iran. When Obama declared defeat and pulled our troops out, that´s when it all went to hell and ISIS was born.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jack44 5/5/2019 1:08:16 PM (No. 77138)
Barr is such a welcome change after a eunuch like Sessions.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/5/2019 2:09:38 PM (No. 77129)
Matthew Continetti is the anti-Trumper son in law of Bill Krystol, mastermind warmonger.
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NWPA 5/5/2019 3:00:11 PM (No. 77124)
Most politicians that have had a long life in Washington politics are not good people. Dick Cheney is among them. I would hope that AG Barr is a man of a different stripe than he is being compared.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Franz 5/5/2019 3:12:24 PM (No. 77137)
Reply #6
I would wait and see before declaring Barr part of the swamp. It will take some time to get the full story about this coup d´état. The coup appears to have involve more participants than is presently known.
I hope Barr nails every last one of them!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 5/5/2019 7:15:07 PM (No. 77130)
Molon labe, senator!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Mother of AL 5/5/2019 9:31:10 PM (No. 77126)
Now that he has been mentioned - can anyone tell me what was the problem with Sessions? My own opinion is that he was a plant put in by the deep state. We’ve read today in other posts that there were many others spying on the Trump campaign. So I wonder if he wasn’t assigned to the campaign to keep DOJ from digging too deep. He certainly did that!
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Fights for the Office of the President. That is where the Dims get it wrong when they say he is acting as PDJT’s lawyer. They just don’t get it.
This is a great piece, also featured at MOTUS A.D. today.