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"On the national level you have sharp and divided partisanship, particularly over stimulus issues or healthcare issues and now foreign affairs.

Get our new Windows 7 eBook for $7 with 70+ Tips. Download Now ! Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 by the oracle Former Vice President Dick Cheney is making quite an after-politics career of going around on the speaking circuit, giving his opinions on why his administration was so great, and why the current one is doomed to failure and disgrace.

Adm. Mike Mullen, America's top military officer, said Wednesday that he is comfortable with the length of time it is taking for the White House to come to a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan.

In a brief interview on Capitol Hill with The Monitor, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he feels good about the "depth of the discussion."

Critics on Capitol Hill and beyond have said Mr. Obama is taking too long to decide whether he will send as many as 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Former Vice President Dick Cheney called it "reckless," and House minority leader John Boehner of Ohio said Obama has "no further pretext for delaying the decision" now that Afghanistan's election crisis has been solved. Democrat Rep. Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has also urged Obama "to waste no time."

Liz Cheney criticized President Obama's foreign and domestic policies last night, saying that the United States needs a strong commander in chief, not a "global community organizer" who cannot decide whether to send more troops to Afghanistan.

On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians.

PIERRE - This time as a private citizen, former Vice President Dick Cheney hunted pheasants in the Pierre area this week.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney held back no criticism Thursday of President Barack Obama, strongly questioning the administration's policy in Afghanistan and its approach to combating terrorism.

Obama's leadership style Written by Ron Walters Thursday, 05 November 2009 11:48 - I do not understand those people who criticize the president for taking his time to get public policy right, when much of the misery that has come to visit their lives is a result of public policy, in both the domestic and international arenas, formulated by the ...

Sen. John McCain said Thursday that he is "angry" and "disappointed" with President Barack Obama for delaying his decision on increasing troop levels in Afghanistan.

The convictions handed down by a French court this week against arms dealers, influence peddlers, and former government officials, including a son of the late president FranA ois Mitterrand, expose a vivid picture of the world in which Dick Cheney used to do business when he was the head of Halliburton in the 1990s.

Well, here we are again. One more time we get to ask ourselves why did this man get elected as VP...and then get re-elected? ...Former A.G. Gonzales and former V.P. Cheney, both indicted on charges involving Texas Federal Prisons.

I might as well have been watching "Howdy Doody" I got up last Sunday morning and watched one of those television news programs like "Meet the Press." Or maybe it was C-Span's coverage of a Democratic gathering to applaud committee passage of their 1,990-page health reform package.

What we can never know is why the Bush Administration's top officials watched the flow of reports that warmed of an impending attack on the United States and did nothing to stop it.

Dr Maleeha Lodhi President Barack Obama is struggling to fashion a new strategy for Afghanistan at a time of gathering crisis in the region, a floundering western mission and rising public weariness in America with the war.

Joe Lieberman has announced he'll probably endorse both Republican and Democratic candidates in 2010, and that's left us wondering who'd want a stamp of approval from Connecticut's moldy moderate.

Dick Cheney has apparently been on a magical mystery media tour. The former Vice President has sought out and been interviewed by more TV journalists and talk show hosts during the past month than during the eight years he was vice president.

Inside Cheney's - don't recall' defense A A Nov. 2: Msnbc's David Shuster talks about the new documents that show that in an interview with federal investigators about the CIA leak case, former Vice President Dick Cheney answered, "I don't recall" 72 times.

Frank W. Hardy Nov 3, 2009 Republican Dede Scozzafava's challenges did not come from her Democratic opponent Bill Owens but from neocons within her own party supporting conservative Doug Hoffman.

A Republican South Carolina state senator said Monday he is challenging Democratic U.S. Rep.

Like the mythical phoenix that rises from the ashes, the USA PATRIOT Act just wona t go away.A After signing the massive piece of legislation into law on October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush and his attorneys general John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzalez , tried repeatedly to expand its powers.A They did this both by seeking to amend the Act ...