# Bust of Dick Cheney to be displayed in the Capitol building **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702 "2015-11-05T13:08:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/1 "2015-11-05T13:08:59Z")
> **[Congress Will Honor Dick Cheney With A Statue Of Him In The U.S. Capitol](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dick-cheney-statue_n_563a8e80e4b0b24aee48e5a2)** > > As Vice President, Cheney served as president of the Senate. > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON – Starting in December, the likeness of former Vice President Dick Cheney will grace the U.S. Capitol, in accordance with a Senate tradition honoring former vice presidents. > > The Huffington Post was tipped off by a Senate resolution “authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for the unveiling of the marble bust of Vice President Richard Cheney on December 3, 2015.” I honestly had not heard of this practice before, and my first reaction was "well, it’s not a _requirement…_ Surely they left out a few of them. But, no, it sorta is a requirement, since 1947. They’re all up there, through Dan Quayle, who was placed there twelve years ago. (The response time seems highly variable. George H.W. Bush got his bust in 1991, two years after he finished serving as Veep, and while he was still president. Quayle had to wait ten years for his, and Al Gore still doesn’t have one, after fourteen years. ) Your comments go here. > **[Busts of Vice Presidents of the United States | Architect of the Capitol](https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/busts-vice-presidents-united-states)** > > The vice president of the United States presides over the United States Senate, and the Senate honors these individuals in a collection of marble busts displayed in the U.S. Capitol. The Architect of the Capitol is responsible for working with the... ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/2 "2015-11-05T13:12:38Z")
_shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/3 "2015-11-05T13:38:27Z")
I hope they engrave the base with [the most notable thing he ever said while presiding over the Senate](http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/04/dick-cheney-could-not-be-prouder-of-that-time-he-told-pat-leahy-to-go-fuck-himself-on-the-senate-floor). ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/4 "2015-11-05T13:40:20Z")
Blindfolds and sticks included? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/5 "2015-11-05T13:44:36Z")
They should rest a rifle on his shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/6 "2015-11-05T13:46:47Z")
Like some busts in football stadiums maybe all the warhawks will come rub his nose before votes on DoD budgets and military action. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/7 "2015-11-05T13:51:59Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > through Dan Quayle, who was placed there twelve years ago. I remember that one: it was over by the door, hollow glass instead of marble, filled with gumballs. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/8 "2015-11-05T14:18:39Z")
Isn’t “Capitol building” redundant? Like, the Capitol by definition is the building, yes? ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/9 "2015-11-05T14:24:25Z")
I guess the Democrats forgot to put Gore’s bust up when they had control in 2009 and 2010. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/10 "2015-11-05T14:35:14Z")
I believe we already have a [conceptual design](http://i.imgur.com/TPLmrXi.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/11 "2015-11-05T14:38:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > [Congress Will Honor Dick Cheney With A Statue In The U.S. Capitol | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dick-cheney-statue_563a8e80e4b0b24aee48e5a2) > > I honestly had not heard of this practice before, and my first reaction was "well, it’s not a _requirement…_ Surely they left out a few of them. But, no, it sorta is a requirement, since 1947. They’re all up there, through Dan Quayle, who was placed there twelve years ago. (The response time seems highly variable. George H.W. Bush got his bust in 1991, two years after he finished serving as Veep, and while he was still president. Quayle had to wait ten years for his, and Al Gore still doesn’t have one, after fourteen years. ) > Your comments go here. > > [Busts of Vice Presidents of the United States | Architect of the Capitol](http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/busts-vice-presidents-united-states) Cheney was a VP? Warmonger! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/12 "2015-11-05T14:48:45Z")
This is the kind of news item that makes me miss Jon Stewart big time. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/13 "2015-11-05T14:49:22Z")
> **[Bush 41 hits 43's aides in new biography | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/05/politics/bush-biography-nyt/index.html)** > > An upcoming biography of former President George H.W. Bush contains critical assessments by the 41st president of some of the top officials from his son's presidency. George HW Bush has a new bio coming out that he cooperated with. He slams Cheney and Rumsfeld, and also says that 43 probably used too harsh rhetoric post-911. In the NYTimes, Cheney and 43 say that if so, 41 didn’t say anything at the time. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/14 "2015-11-05T14:58:47Z")
Can we forget the bust and just mount Cheney there? Probably a bad idea in retrospect…would certainly frighten the children… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/15 "2015-11-05T15:27:47Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Can we … mount Cheney there? You gave me the willies there for a moment. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/16 "2015-11-05T15:50:31Z")
Wait, what are they busting him for? Is this a drug bust, an ATF bust, a smuggling bust? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/17 "2015-11-05T15:52:35Z")
I don’t get it either. He was already a bust. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/18 "2015-11-05T15:54:00Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > They should rest a rifle on his shoulder. Or better yet, carve a few shotgun pellets into his face. After all, good art isn’t just making a sculpture perfectly identical to the person; Good art means you add something appropriately symbolic–a reminded of the most famous act which person will be remembered for. 🙂 So ,yeah, by that logic…Dan Quayle’s statue should include a potato(e) . ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/19 "2015-11-05T15:55:58Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Can we forget the bust and just mount Cheney there? > > Probably a bad idea in retrospect…would certainly frighten the children… > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > You gave me the willies there for a moment. Mounting Cheney in any shape, manner or form will definitely frighten the children. And the “willies.” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702/20 "2015-11-05T16:36:14Z")
I call dibs on painting a bulls-eye on his face. (I wouldn’t do that to the bust, though. Art is sacred.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bust-of-dick-cheney-to-be-displayed-in-the-capitol-building/736702.md?page=2)