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- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -10/+94This guy is trying to save his own ass from being prosecuted by finally telling liberals everything they want to hear.
"All of a sudden I'm the most progressive dude around now! Gay marriage!"
"Bush sucks lol! Barack Obama is better!"
You're not fooling me, dick cheney. - sheasie, on 06/04/2009, -7/+57Who ***** cares what Cheney says or thinks. It's all ***** at this point.
/buried for not being an article about how Cheney is a war criminal and is still roaming our streets. - sheasie, on 06/04/2009, -7/+42Ummm... why do we care what Cheney says? He is war criminal responsible for dragging America into an illegal war and illegally justifying torture.
- sheasie, on 06/04/2009, -8/+319/11 happened on Cheney's watch.
- Spindig, on 06/04/2009, -5/+26Cheney is absolutely right on this one. That is what I said when it happened. Bush didn't want the last thing that happened as he left office to be that he refused to help the auto companies and therefore made them go into bankruptcy.
- AndrewDB, on 06/04/2009, -6/+26I'm going to go ahead and call this one *****.
Why?
Because they BOTH passed the buck on GM. - banderwocky, on 06/04/2009, -1/+18Yeah, bush 'decided' he didn't want to be the one for a lot of things. Leadership, common sense, peace, prosperity, justice... etc.
- inactive, on 06/04/2009, -0/+16BWHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAH
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Did you seriously just say that about Bush/Cheney, cause everyone with a ***** brain knows that it was really Cheney/Bush. - inactive, on 06/04/2009, -0/+15If he really cared about his country he would continue his good work of shooting lawyers in the face.
- mysticalone, on 06/04/2009, -0/+13What is Emperor Palpatine's game plan today?
- treehugger87, on 06/04/2009, -2/+13Why do we allow this war criminal and terrorist to continue to spread propaganda?
- robinthehood, on 06/04/2009, -0/+11goes to show the character of Dick Cheney when, after office, he continues to submarine the man he worked for...
- roodammy44, on 06/04/2009, -0/+10What a brave, great man GW Bush was.
Not afraid of anything and man enough to face up to his responsibilities
/s - DrVic, on 06/04/2009, -1/+11Yeah because Bush didn't want to tarnish his legacy.
- chugokuotaku, on 06/04/2009, -0/+8pretty obvious when the entire republican senate went against the bailout, bush sided with the left and handed GM a check to holdout until the next administration took office.
on the other hand, I figured if he did allow GM to go bankrupt, the left would totally blame it on him, even though GM's bankruptcy was inevitable. - roodammy44, on 06/04/2009, -0/+8and then manking them apologise for it
- seanstuart, on 06/04/2009, -1/+9Obama sure inherited a lot of "bucks."
- solmakou, on 06/04/2009, -0/+7Big Dick Syndrome?
- IKORKYI, on 06/04/2009, -0/+7dick cheney just needs to stfu already
- tgc1, on 06/04/2009, -1/+8When is that guy going to be arrested?
- seandfeeney, on 06/04/2009, -1/+8what a wuss
- inactive, on 06/04/2009, -1/+7cos he was lying when he said that. as always. Bush deeply cared about his image.
- seanstuart, on 06/04/2009, -0/+6There was actually nothing to spend when he took office, it was all debt. Bush on the other hand, now he could spend some bucks - like a debutant high on pain killers with her sugar daddy's platinum card. Boy, could that whore spend!
- defektiv, on 06/04/2009, -0/+6I told my friends these guys would eventually eat themselves alive. I'm just wondering how long dubya can keep his mouth shut. Probably not long with Darth Cheney saying stuff like this.
- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -3/+9oh excuse me I forgot we're on digg
- inactive, on 06/04/2009, -1/+7OH THE IRONY. It's funny cause it's trueeeee.
- inactive, on 06/04/2009, -1/+6Yep, he watched alright...
- ShyGuy91284, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5Not at all uncommon. Similar thing happened in Rochester, NY. Old Mayor got a Ferry going between Rochester and Toronto (Toronto didn't give a crap of course since Toronto > Rochester*10). The Ferry owners screwed up. Rochester bought it for 20m or something like that hoping to still get use out of it since they already invested some money into it. Things got worse. Everyone knew that it had to be killed, but the mayor who started the ferry project left it for the next guy, who had to kill it within weeks of coming into office.
- kukurio, on 06/04/2009, -3/+8GM's bankruptcy was inevitable? How do you figure that? A smart energy policy during Bush's and Clinton's terms would have promoted the creation of fuel-efficient vehicles and insulated GM against rising oil prices. Of the Big 3, only Ford isn't going bankrupt, and that's because they didn't rely as heavily on Hummer-esque vehicles. Unless you're one of those people who deludes yourself into thinking that regulation is always bad and that there is no such thing as a market failure.
No, I bet you're one of those kool-aid drinkers who blames the UAW for the demise of the American auto industry. I have news for you, though: the German and Japanese have even stronger unions, and they're not going under. For that matter, Ford isn't going under either, and they're also beholden to the UAW. - krahzee, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5From the GM wiki:
'December 19, 2008: President Bush approved a bailout plan and gave General Motors and Chrysler $13.4 billion in financing from TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program) funds, as well as $4 billion to be "withdrawn later."
As always a little research goes a long way. This money was meant to help them sustain operations while they (GM and the US government) plotted the next step.
To say he dumped it on Obama is not entirely fair: Obama was also calling for this money to help GM continue operations while the process to bring them back to viability was developed.
A good part of this policy was cost cutting (closing plants, reducing output, etc...), labor re-negotiations, eliminating/selling brands and so on.
Those processes do not happen over time. For example, the decision on which dealers to close had to take into account a lot of thing including financial viability, geographical proximity to other GM dealerships, etc.. That data can't be studied and acted on overnight. It takes time.
If anything Bush deferred decision, knowing that he was leaving office in a short period of time.
In the meantime the ball was already rolling on a solution. GM was working to cut costs, redo the labor deal and sell brands, all in an effort to get fiscally healthier, while at the same time Obama was busy meeting with his people to "hit the ground running" .
Make no mistake about this too: Obama did not want GM to go bankrupt until AFTER it redid it's labor deal. Without them getting a shared of GM stock, the unions would have been fiscally devastated by a bankruptcy, since the obligations owed to the pension fund would not have been required to have been met by the new company. With more retired workers than eactive ones, that would have been a nightmare. - imric, on 06/03/2009, -3/+8Not sure what YOU'RE on.
- vbullinger, on 06/04/2009, -2/+7I would call it more like "oversaw" :)
- Rollwit2002, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5That Dick also shot his buddy in the face.
But old Dick had a reason that dude was complaining about health care. - DaveClarkOne, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5Duh. Thanks Dick, but I think we already knew this. Now go think of something else to get your mug in print. Are you running for office?
- XkenX87, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5Buried cause you said to.
- blackb0x, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5yeah, let's just forget what happened
- TGothe, on 06/04/2009, -2/+6Bush consistently stated that he didn't particularly care how people view his decisions in the immediate aftermath. Why would he have started when his term was pretty much over?
- norman619, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4But the way their failure is being handled belongs 100% to the politicians.
- TheUngod, on 06/04/2009, -2/+6It wasn't their buck to pass. GM ***** up. The gov't shouldn't have done anything to begin with. Neither Bush nor Obama should have touched them with a 10 foot pole.
- clejeune, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4Is that why Bush gave them $17,000,000,000.00?
- Ymeg, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4Cheney has held his position on gay marriage for some time.
- inactive, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4Shouldn't this ***** be in jail? Why are we still listening to him?
BURIED - Tritis, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4Ever see one of those WW2 documentaries that History Channel always shows? All those nifty 2.5 and 5 ton trucks and lots and lots of tanks?
Those all came from American manufacturing. It's nice and all to drive a Toyota or, 5 years from now, a chinese import but what it comes down to is maintaining America's ability to produce wartime equipment in a very short time. GM played an important role in freeing Europe and now America is just a little less able to get the job done. - seltaeb4, on 06/05/2009, -0/+3"Cheney 2012"?
Maybe the Mayans are right... - cuervoman914, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3"hey, i understand that our R-expresident might be admitting to stuff that happened during his tenure and that they didnt do ***** about it, but the real focus should be why is the current D-POTUS ***** ***** up." dont you see how bad it looks when it gets paraphrased?
- Unreal030, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3I would like to know why people are digging this man down. Would you people at least explain why you hold this position? So far I have seen zero evidence that these people are going to be prosecuted, and frankly history is not in favor of that idea either.
- IKORKYI, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3coherence is always a plus
- thcobbs, on 06/04/2009, -1/+4Yeah... ours.
- seltaeb4, on 06/05/2009, -0/+3There's a great opportunity for a joke here, but I'm just going to leave it there.
- inactive, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3Building the empire from within. Currently in conversation with his master, Sith Lord of great oil worm.
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