Has anybody seen evidence of Dick Cheney?? He has been conspicously absent from view. Is he bunkered down in the situation room at the White House and not available to the media?
Hoping against hope that he wasn’t at the Pentagon.
There was a picture distributed yesterday showing the vice president and Secretary of State Powell sitting beside the president at a Cabinet meeting.
The Secret Service always knows where the vice president is. And I’m sure that Cheney is sitting in on all of the NSA meetings.
That’s interesting. I haven’t heard any statements from him - let’s hope he didn’t have a heart attack or anything. If he was at the Pentagon, he most likely would have been on the other side, where the Joint Chief’s offices are.
I’m sure he is all right and involved in the decision making. I would just like to see evidence of that. Do you have a cite for the picture?
My guess is since Cheney is ex-secretary of Defense, he has been thrown into an unofficial lieutenant role for the current SoD. He’s of alot more use there than as VP.
gabbyhayes, your information is not very uhhh…good.
Cheney was in the White House situation room (an underground bunker) immediately after the initial attack and all planes had been accounted for. The rest of the White House was evacuated.
Congress was not “relocated.” The Capitol was evacuated and the majority leaders were moved to a secret bunker - standard practice for a national emergency.
Bush was in Florida and planning to back to Washington. Because of the attacks, Air Force One proceeded to zig-zag accross the US on a secret route to various military bases. GWB was in audio contact with Cheney and all the people in the situation room throughout the whole day.
No transfer of power has taken place. Cheney was never “president” and GWB was never not president. If both GWB and Cheney were to die, then yes, succession proceeds to the Speaker of the House and then the President Pro Tem of the Senate.
If this thread seems a little, uh, discontinuous, it’s because I’ve deleted a couple of particularly stupid rants which do not belong in this forum.
I’ve deleted them because I previously said I would.
To the last guy, whose username I didn’t get but who just quoted the post for purposes of adding a rolleyes smile, you’re not in trouble – I just had to delete that post too to get rid of the rant.
gabbyhayes - Unless you can support your baseless allegations, your comments belong in the Pit. I’m calling for an immediate retraction unless you can provide some factual evidence.
Got a cite? Bush was either on air Force One in the air, or on a base in Louisiana, or at SAC in Omaha.
Who suggested this and where? You?
Really? How so? Which photos specifically?
Ummm… the President’s health is on par with professional athletes in recent medical assessments. He doesn’t drink anymore, and there is no evidence that he has ever used drugs. I’m sure you already knew that. The myth of Bush’s lack of intelligence has been put to rest in other threads on this forum. On the contrary, he has been calm and collected thorughout this whole ordeal. Unable to lead? Sounds like he’s doing a good job so far …
Cite?
Really? Rumors that juicy have to have sources. I’m sure you can provide a link.
Shoot. I didn’t see your editing work, manhattan. Feel free to delete my followup as well. I don’t care where the retraction comes from. 
Manhattan,
Id personally like to see the post just to understand the reactions after it. I can certainly understand if it was utterly distasteful but it’s more gratifying to see irrational rants get picked apart than deleted. JMO
::sigh:: That’s OK, evilhanz. You put a lot of work into that (almost) simulpost.
He won’t be rebutting it though. He’s done here.
Ok Manny, I was very confused for a minute there, I think evielhanz may suffer a similer fate. I thought I was being very clever though ;). Edit or delete this post as necessary (not that you need my permission)
On preview – Wow a lot happens in a couple minutes, I’ll just leave the above like it is.
OK, now that we got that ugliness over with, I’d like to get back to the OP. Does anyone have credible evidence that Cheney is alive, working, etc.
This article at MSNBC
seems to indicate that Dick Cheney is alive and well and was monitoring the events Tuesday along with the Congressional leaders.
…And tonight the news is reporting that Cheney has been taken to Camp David so he and Bush aren’t in the same city at the same time.
Thank you both. I mainly wanted to dispel a conspiracy theory by my colleague. I won’t go into the details here, but I thought that Cheney’s reclusiveness may be a security procedure and not anything else.
Cheney has been out of sight a lot. This all looks too much like a case of Russian measles. I am hoping that this is just the result of them not realizing how this looks because their thoughts are on the details that must be attended to. I think it is unfortunate and ill considered that he did not make more of an appearance. His presence could help reassure Americans.
I’m not up to par on all of the cute euphemisms - what is Russian measles?
i read somewhere that the reason we aren’t seeing or hearing much from cheney was because the gov’t can’t have them in the same location in case of another incident. if one gets attacked, God willing, the other would be safe and be able to pick up the reigns in case something should happen to the the president…
Additionally, they aren’t, by law, allowed to travel in the same plane.
And as for all the “Bush quaking in fear” baloney, in times of crisis, the President doesn’t have much choice as to what he does. The Secret Service will drag him along to what they consider a safe place.