The Rachel Maddow Show: Cheney Inc.
Rachel Maddow reports on the funding source behind Liz Cheney's "Keep America Safe". Surprise, surprise...a man who's helping to attempt to "polish" Dick Cheney's political legacy. I don't know how anyone could possibly "polish" that big of a turd, but it looks like it's not going to stop them from trying.
Maddow: Big news to report tonight about a new effort by the Cheney family and funded by some of the biggest money men in the Republican Party to attack President Obama on national security to try to undermine his presidency. It’s an effort that’s being led on the surface by Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz. And tonight we’re learning new details about whose bankrolling their mission behind the scenes.
In conjunction with former Vice-President Cheney’s speech this week attacking President Obama for not having yet announced a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan, a new pressure group headed up by Mr. Cheney’s daughter Liz has released this new attack ad. […]
According to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff Keep America Safe is gearing up to run TV ads and radio ads and web ads like that in the home districts of Democratic members of Congress in the lead up to the 2010 elections. They’re promising in particular to attempt to exploit the issue of closing Guantanamo for political gain.
The lead story on the Keep America Safe web site right now says “Transferring Gitmo Prisoners To U.S. Will Set Them Free”. Well today Mr. Isikoff revealed on Newsweek’s new Classified blog exactly who is bankrolling the Cheney family’s Keep America Safe political machine. America—meet Mel Sembler. He may not be a household name to most of us, but he’s a Florida real estate mogul who is very, very well known in Republican circles.
Mr. Sembler is the former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee. He served as President Bush’s ambassador to Italy and he’s now throwing all of his considerable financial muscle behind the Cheney’s new anti-Obama venture. Mr. Sembler told Newsweek “I love Liz Cheney and what she’s doing… [I’ll be] as supportive as my budget will allow”.
Mr. Sembler is a very close friend of the Cheney family. Here he is posing with the Second Lady of the United States Lynn Cheney. He’s so close to the Cheney’s in fact that in addition to bankrolling the Cheney’s family’s new anti-Obama political group, Mr. Sembler is also the chairman of the Scooter Libby Legal Defense Trust, set up to defend Mr. Cheney’s Chief of Staff Scooter Libby when Mr. Libby was charged with lying and obstructing the investigation into the Bush/Cheney White House for outing a covert CIA officer as political revenge. The “Scooter Didn’t Do It” chairman is the new bankroller of the opposition to President Obama and incidentally the polishing of Dick Cheney’s political legacy, which seems like it might be an expensive undertaking.
Michael Isikoff joined Rachel to discuss his column at Newsweek--Update: Major Republican Donor Plans to Fund Liz Cheney’s New Organization
Cheney was and always will be a turd.
He will be remembered as such.
When it comes to the good of the country, Cheney always has "other priorities"....himself.
PNAC got their "catastrophic and catalyzing event", right on schedule on 9/11/2001. Dick will "prove" Obama "can't keep us safe", and the destruction of the Republic will be complete. Read how here: 9112010.com
He must be so rich, and yet, he doesn't believe in his cause enough to speak for free?
He has to be supported by this guy?
Is he the George Sorros of the republican party?????
Diane
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Did Cheney/Bush get Bin Laden?
... Then THEY didn't work too hard, now did they?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
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F A C T:
TO DATE, as of October 25, 2009, America has NOT been attacked on our shores in the same comparison time frame as the Bush/Cheney time period.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Didn't he have something to do with child rape before being appointed to his ambassadorship? I seem to recall writing my Congress-critters about him at the time.
The name rang familar with me, too. One of his 'treatment centers' near me was closed after a huge scandal-IIRC, some teenage girl was raped, and the State of Florida paid for her abortion.
Anywho, I went to the Goggle, and found:
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hur...
With Senator Levin now condemning the Cheney (aka -The Biggest Friggin' Downer Pill in the Word) remarks and ads against our current President - in war time and still in the midst of a serious world financial meltdown, will Senator Joe Lieberman too do the right and just thing by condemning his financial benefactor for such salacious ads against a President who, by the way, has bent over backwards to protect and be nice to Joe??
Rachel --Please ask a question of Joe: Is he for the President and America? Or is he for Cheney and his acidic vitriol aimed at undermining the President's call for America's support?
This is a tried and true tactic of the right; they always find wealthy right-wingers with money. Richard Mellon Scaife and a Chicago friend of Newt Gringrich (whose name I forget)funded the attacks on and lies about the Clinton's during the 1990's. It was just a matter of time before the right found a bagman to fund attacks on the Obama's. That's what they do. They lie.
If mega-millionaire Dick Cheney believes what he is saying is so important, why isn't he self funding? Why can't he pay to polish his own legacy?
Capone never went to prison for all of the crimes he committed. He went to prison for income tax evasion.
Now as we have seen, arrogance in power causes the rich to believe they are teflon coated and they get careless, notice how many of Obama's boys had/have tax problems. All of them, right?
All it would take to clear up a lot of back trash would be a quick, at most a day, maybe two, investigation into Bush and Cheney's income tax returns and throw in Rove for sure, and we could get more career criminals off of the street.
So WHY aren't they being prosecuted?
The reason they dared to violate our Federal Torture Laws (and others) is because they are sure the Democrats now in charge Will Not Prosecute Them. If that is true then we have a permanently out of control justice system that protects officials when they violate our Laws. We, you and I must stop this!
Please,
Sign the PETITIONS calling for Prosecution.
http://ANGRYVOTERS.org
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