@Alligator Ed

Just like home week for the rehabilitated Bush neocons...

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/dick-cheney-key-donald-trump-adviser/201...

Politico: Dick Cheney Emerging as Key Trump Adviser

By Todd Beamon | Friday, 16 Dec 2016 10:47 PM

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is emerging as an influential force as President-elect Donald Trump fills his Cabinet — particularly in pushing for the nomination of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.

Cheney's support of Tillerson may serve as "a good housekeeping seal of approval" with skeptical Republican senators, a Trump transition aide told Politico. ...

... Cheney, 75, who served under President George W. Bush, was among several Republican hard-liners against Russia and President Vladimir Putin who endorsed Tillerson as secretary of state.

Others included former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Bob Gates, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and James A. Baker III.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush also backed Tillerson in the diplomatic post.

Cheney called Tillerson "an inspired choice."

Tillerson, 64, has headed Exxon Mobil since 2006. He has ties to Russia dating back nearly two decades.

Cheney, a longtime friend of Tillerson, also has been involved in the oil industry: He was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Co. from 1995 to 2000.

He also has been communicating closely with senior Trump aides, Politico reports, including Vice President-elect Gov. Mike Pence.

"Mike relishes the advice," a senior transition aide told Politico.

The aide said that Cheney was "willing to do what he’s asked" and "wants to be helpful to the incoming administration." ...

Read through a fair bit of the CSPAN blather; had already seen all of the propaganda mashed into that blather that far in and had to stop.

But the main point I'm trying to bring up is that Cheney and others like him are still a problem within government, still making appointments and determining what's evidently intended to pass as policy and what propaganda's being passed out. He's one of the reasons that the same pathological culture and destructive actions continue with the same old, same old that's killing us all.

https://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20161222_010000_Dick_Cheney_and_Leon_P...

Dick Cheney and Leon Panetta Discuss Trump Administration Defense Policy CSPAN December 21, 2016 8:00pm-9:17pm EST

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/liz-cheney-congress-donald-t...

Liz Cheney Wants to Make Torture Great Again
She’s back in Washington, and she’s eager to pick up where her dad left off.

Tim MurphyJan/Feb 2017 issue

... In November, bolstered by a few mended fences and backed by family friends such as Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney easily won her race to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Cynthia Lummis for Wyoming’s lone House seat, which was once held by her dad. After eight long years in exile, the Cheneys are back in government, and it might be a while before they go away again.

Cheney, a veteran of the Bush administration who has inherited her father’s hawkish views, is returning to a Washington, DC, far different from the one the former vice president left eight years ago. After the missing weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqi insurgency, Abu Ghraib, and the other foreign policy and national security fiascoes of the 2000s, neoconservatives lost their grip on the Republican Party. President Barack Obama’s two terms gave rise to a new kind of anti-interventionist Republican, such as Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul (dubbed “wacko birds” by Sen. John McCain), who opposed intervention in Libya and Syria and criticized the growth of the surveillance state. The 2016 Republican presidential primary, with Cruz and Paul on one side and Sen. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush on the other, was supposed to settle the question of what kind of foreign policy Republicans would push going forward. ...

...Yet the Cheneys’ politics are poised to make at least a partial comeback under Trump. After the election, old hawks and Bushies such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former CIA head James Woolsey, and former UN Ambassador John Bolton were floated for roles in the new administration. And Liz Cheney is not likely to sit on the sidelines. Even as her father’s dark shadow receded after 2008, she emerged as one of Obama’s most relentless national security critics. With a fervor that felt personal, she pilloried the president for changing course on torture and Iraq. But unlike many members of the Bush administration, Cheney was also an unabashed supporter of Trump, embracing some of his more heretical views on trade and immigration and warning that Clinton was little more than a “felon.” In her first week on Capitol Hill, she has emerged as one of the most vocal defenders of President Trump’s plan to bring back torture. She may just be a bridge by which the neocon establishment returns from exile. ...

...Her first splash came three months after the inauguration, when the Justice Department released new information on the Bush administration’s use of torture. Cheney took the move, along with Obama’s efforts to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, as a personal insult to her family’s legacy. On cable news programs and at conservative conferences, Cheney became her father’s defender in chief. “When you see the current administration making decisions that really do have the potential to make us less safe, in those circumstances, I would say the vice president doesn’t think that there’s an obligation to be silent,” she said in her fiery debut as a conservative talking head on MSNBC. “There are important reasons why we put policies in place. They clearly kept us safe for seven years.” She co-authored her dad’s memoir, a spirited defense of his tenure as one of America’s least popular vice presidents, and even half-seriously floated him as a possible presidential candidate.

But some of Dick Cheney’s biggest fans, like Rove, were speculating about Liz’s political prospects. Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol suggested that she run for president. “I was excited about Palin; I’m more excited about Liz,” the neoconservative Michael Goldfarb told New York magazine. ...

...The chaos of the Trump campaign shattered some of the party’s long-held tenets, but neocon dead-enders who see the president as a blank slate sense an opportunity to return to influence. Cheney has already begun assembling a coalition of the willing. In the final days of the election, she started writing personal checks to Republican candidates in swing districts, future colleagues who just might remember the favor sometime in the near future. Even a Cheney can dabble in soft power now and then.

Not only are the undead still loose in Washington, but they have equally vampiric young. The American people, as stakeholders, need to be aware.

#2 was he ever in charge? Those horrible domestic policy actions could have been made by Steve Bannon, just like Darth Cheney pulled all the strings attached to W's head.