Cheney says no one saw financial crisis coming

This, coming from the man that accidentally shot his friend in the face. Yeah, Cheney didn't see him either.

Agreed, and I am pissed that they are getting away with this, someone needs to stand up to Cheney and call him a liar to his face.

A month ago the AP was ripe with stories about when the signs appeared who pointed them out and how the Bush Administration ignored them.

Calling Cheney a liar to his face is like beating up the neighborhood wino...everybody can do it but he'll be back there tomorrow.

Cheney didn't loose anything...all his money is in privatized prisons, mercenary security services, weapons of war, and housing developments in Dubai.

...no one saw the crisis coming.

Crazy -- He's actually pleading incompetence! 

Voters elected those guys because they pushed the conservative Republican agenda.  They said that they knew business and the economy, and that the government should not get involved with it.  They pushed "small government", underfunded the SEC so that it became powerless, and ignored regulatory abuses.

What this does is disprove conservatism and the Republican party.  The first is unworkable, and the second is incompetent.

These guys were never conservatives.  They were Neocons, plain and simple, hiding behind the 'nice-sounding' phrase, "Compassionate Conservativism".  They were neither compassionate nor conservative.  Out of control spending, preemptive wars, confrontational rhetoric, unflinching support for Israel at the expense of our reputation with our more important allies.  Research the definition of a neocon and its history and you will see that Bush's entire presidency and his every political move fits neatly into the definition of this horribly failed political ideology.

We as a public could get the point across not only to blowhard Cheney, but to the rest of those that followed his path of destruction of the United States, how you say?  Prosecute him and all the rest of the tyrants that committed treason against our country for their profit. 

I  have started the letter writing crusade want to join me.  Letters to editors, elected Representatives, Justice department, United Nations etc etc. 

I'd like to agree with you RonBlack66.  But saying that Bush, Cheney, his cabinet, all of the conservatives he appointed to office, and the conservative talk-how hosts that supported him are not conservatives.... ?

It's like saying that Lenin, Stalin, and Bresnev were not true communists.

Conservatism and Communism have been tried long enough to prove that both have been failures.

Joe,

The entire republican party is no more conservative than the entire democratic party is progressive.  Sadly, the modern republican party has been taken over in large part by neocons, just as the democratic party has been inundated with progressives such as Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank.  In between, you will find such politicians as Bill Clinton and apparently Barack Obama, based upon what I've seen to this point with his decisions.

As far as the so-called 'conservative' talk show hosts, most are neocons too.  Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, etc.  They are bought and paid for by the neocon arm of the republican party, who themselves are bought and paid for by AIPAC and big business lobbyists.  

Paleoconservatives are more in line with the traditional definition of conservatism.  Pat Buchanan would be an example of this.  Neoconservatives came about as a splinter group of 60's liberals that were supportive of the Vietnam War.  Read up on the history of the two political philosophies and you will find that there are distinct differences between neoconservatives and paleoconservatives.  Border control and strict immigration policies and enforcement being one huge difference.  Pre-emptive wars are another.  To say that the agenda of neocons is the agenda of all conservatives is being either intellectually lazy or intellectually dishonest.  I tend to believe that it is a combination of the two.

Could Cheney please define "no one"?  I've been saying for the past several years that the economy is tanking. 

Once again, the republican party shows it's true colors; "make $$ for me, and I'll look the other way.  Oh--there's trouble?  Oh, no!  Well, let me know if it gets worse..." and my favorite, "it's not my fault, and I don't have to apologize for anything."  It's too bad that the country will be cleaning up 8 years' mess for the next 10 years.  And, Mr. Cheney, don't think the American People are going to forget about it.

Come on people, lets look at this from a birds eye view (can anyone say ostrich).  Clintons security team briefed Cheney and Bush about SaddamHussein in 2000.  Bush and Cheney never saw the terrorist attacks coming.  The military warned them Iraq was falling into chaos.  Never saw that coming.  Federal regulators briefed them on the mortgage loan crisis.  They never saw it coming.  A bunch of economists briefed them on the failing economy. They never saw that coming.  Bet when the Hague begins investigations into war crimes they will whine and cry that they never saw that coming either.

The poor performance of the Bush administration disproves conservatism for the reason that countrycomfort gave above.  They were true believer conservative Republican ideologues.  They believed so strongly in following the conservative ideology that they couldn't bring themselves to admit that it was failing. 

Instead they spouted catch-phrases like "stay the course" about using military force instead of diplomacy, even as the Iraq operation became a costly quagmire. 

They repeated "lower taxes" as the national debt doubled to ten trillion dollars. 

Now they mindlessly repeat "less government" even as the new administration faces one of America's biggest challenges in recovering from the financial collapse caused by degulation of the financial industry.

Once the Democrats clean up this mess, America will be back in this much trouble again someday if we don't face the fact that conservatism does not work.

When will the REAL conservatives pack up the ROVE clan of criminals and toss them out on their collective asses? When will they learn; when you are putting party first, it will fail America as a whole.

We need a NEW PATRIOTISM....truly go after the domestic enemies (those who have destroyed our country)as well as foreign enemies.

Bet when the Hague begins investigations into war crimes they will whine and cry that they never saw that coming either.

This is what they were worried about so they were preparing for this while everyone else saw the damage they were doing coming.

Check the amendments that were made to The Military Commissions Act of 2006 for what I am talking about.

Cheney is proving an old point. "it is better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and prove it"

It is hard to see it coming when you are leading the parade that is making it happen.

Yeah, and when, in addition, the 'no one' he was referring to was only himself, since he's the only one who counts in his eyes. He uses that instead of the royal 'we'.

Cheney is worth his weight in dirty @!$%#s.

roflmao @ Grammie! Good one!

Stevis is intellegent though somthing these chit for brains idiots do not have from the bottom up.

more like circumcising the Constitution.

more like circumcising the Constitution.

Ouch!

Just a little snip here and there.

til there's nothing left...little snip... not so much.

amen Stevemax

Sure Cheney's lips moved.  He was taking a break from his puppet.

Oh, please. Everybody saw it coming,

I saw it coming but I'm only a voter.  

If only they had seen this coming and not the shoes.

I am really glad I took my money out of the stock market over a year ago.  I don't know much, but even I saw it coming.

The stunning part is they're bending over backwards to "open the credit markets" to restart the machine!  Like a heroin addict!

"This is not the truth you're looking for..."

Yeah, that "nobody could have seen it coming" excuse is just like the one you get from bureaucrats: "that's the first I've heard of it". Sure.

Let those who voted for those two bastards, foot the bill for war. That would be a huge chunck off the rest of us!

Thank you for this link, I hope everyone checks it out...

you're welcome..

Yeah, I read something about that too. Cheney is lying through his teeth.

Do not you think some blame should go to all the greedy and crooked finacial folks; the lazy consumers who purchased houses they could not afford, and probably could not take care of; and last but not least all the slobs who maxed out their credit cards purchasing crap they could not afford?  Reaserch the "other politicians" who kept Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae afloat.  There names are not Bush or Cheney. 

It was about Bush not seeing it coming - not who caused it. 

OK, if President Bush had seen it coming what should he have done?  How about:

• Cut up the credit cards of glutinous consumers who could not pay their bills?
• Prevent people not smart enough or stricken with envy NOT to purchase homes they could not afford?
• Wiretap all those financial people to find out who the crooks are?

LMAO!  Not even he believes what he is saying!