"Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday stopped by a Republican leadership meeting,CNN reported, warning lawmakers of the threat that North Korea poses. "We're in deep doo doo," Cheney reportedly said.
"Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL) told CNN that Cheney spent about 10 minutes in the meeting. Cheney also addressed how little the U.S. knows about North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un."
It's because so many miss Vice President Cheney that the GOP doesn't usually like having any pictures when they meet with him.
In other news featuring creepy Republicans, Rand Paul's "straight shooting" didn't go over so well in a speech on the GOP and race before a historically Black College. He figured that all he had to do was point out that Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were Republicans and the old Segregationist South were Democrats and his job was mostly done.
"Yesterday morning Sen. Rand Paul went over to Howard University. And it didn’t go terribly well. One might say that’s only to be expected in a case like this - perhaps even the whole point - since the aim is to break the ice between communities either antagonistic to each other or thoroughly out of communication. But it’s more an example of what happens when a staunch conservative steps out of the GOP’s tightly-drawn racial nonsense bubble and hits an audience not dying to be convinced that the GOP’s problems with non-whites are the results of boffo misunderstandings about a Republican party that is actually the best thing that ever happened to black people."
"Every organization or group finds way to dish nonsense to the foot soldiers. But real life isn’t always so schematic and unidirectional. Good faith and bad faith and bamboozlement aren’t always neatly separated. When you look at who’s the bamboozled and who’s the bamboozler in this part of the GOP subculture you see that it’s not so clear cut. Often they’re all rolled together in a person."
"For about a generation you’ve been able to go to pretty much any conservative confab and find some race huckster peddling a moron’s call and response about how the GOP, far from being the country’s key remaining political redoubt of racial animus is actually an awesome party for Civil Rights against Robert Byrd and the Democratic Klu Klux Klan."
"Hey, did you know Frederick Douglass was a Republican? No? It’s totally true! Or the people who founded the NAACP? Each is designed to lead to piqued moments of thought followed by, ‘Yeah, you’re right! I’m not the racist. You’re the racist!’
"Or, to put it differently, all building toward the epic moment when you put on a ‘racial outreach’ panel event at CPAC entitled “Trump The Race Card: Are You Sick And Tired Of Being Called A Racist When You Know You’re Not One?” How could that go wrong?"
"From one choice passage from our article …
“Would everyone know here they were all Republicans?” [Sen. Paul] said at one point, referring to the NAACP’s founders.“Yes!” came the booming response from nearly the entire audience, who appeared offended Paul would even raise the question.
Now in some good news, the White House was able to commend the Senate on agreeing to bring up immigration reform to discussion.
"The Senate voted 68-31 on Thursday to send gun control legislation to the floor, passing a key test vote but setting up a much more painful battle toward final passage"
"More than a dozen Republicans joined all but two Democrats to back the procedural motion. Many of the GOP lawmakers who voted for the motion remain undecided or even opposed to the final legislation but urged their party not to eschew the debate."
“I welcome a debate on gun control and you should too,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
"The two Democrats to vote against the motion were Sens. Mark Pryor (AR) and Mark Begich (AK), both of whom are up for reelection next year."
"White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Thursday commended the Senate's vote to consider gun control legislation. "We certainly welcome this development," Carney said during the White House briefing.
"While Carney said the White House welcomes the vote, he called it a first step, according to several tweets from reporters.
I guess how much you miss Cheney depends on what you'd rather hear from the White House: a welcome for an overdue public discussion on gun control or your Vice President announcing that "We're in deep doo-doo."
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