JayHawk
Rambunctiously Pugnacious
Well Monty Python of course....
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JONATHAN KARL: Does he (Obama) deserve some credit on the issue of gay marriage, being the first president to come out and say he’s in favor of gay marriage?
DICK CHENEY: You know, that’s– that’s– up to him. I made my statement on that subject 12 years ago.
JONATHAN KARL: What’s your stance? Is that a generational thing? I mean, are we getting to the point– one thing President Obama said is that– his daughters were kind of influential in– in coming out. They– they didn’t understand why could there be a problem. I mean, is– is that issue even gonna be relevant in 20 or 30 years?
DICK CHENEY: I don’t know that it’s relevant now. You know? There are a lot of big issues. And I’m sure that’s a big issue for some people obviously. But I don’t think the election’s gonna turn on that issue.
JONATHAN KARL: Do you wish you had pushed a little harder on that issue?
DICK CHENEY: Why?
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ABC News
Transcript: Dick Cheney’s First Interview After Heart Transplant - ABC News
Dick Cheney says he didn't see the point of raising the issue of gay marriage in the 2000 presidential campaign, even though he supported it.
Clinton was able to work with a republican congress ---- why not this guy? The answer: Obama doesn't want to work with Congress.
Don't be revisionist Jack! The Republican obstructionism led by Newt Gingrich in 1994-1995 completely blew up in their faces and (after the debacle of the Republican led government shutdown which was blamed squarely on their shoulders) they had NO CHOICE but to stop being obstructionist and start working with the president after 1995 if they ever hoped to see another Republican elected to congress.









