# Where's Dick Cheney? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 13, 2007, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824 "2007-01-13T09:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/1 "2007-01-13T09:43:17Z")
Usually, when the Bush Administration has to do a big push, one of the first things they do is disconnect Cheney from his life support system in The Bunker and begin trotting him around so he can prove that: A.) He’s not dead. B.) That this new policy of the Administration is one of the most important things to ever happen to America (In _his_ opinion.). Yet, nary a peep out of him, as far as I can tell, on the whole surge business. Did he choke on a cheeseburger, and the Administration is waiting for an opportune moment to announce this (meanwhile his corpse is kept on ice until the right moment arrives)? Or are they having trouble finding virgins with the same blood type as him in order to give him the transfusion he needs to appear human? I put this in IMHO, because I don’t think that anyone will be able to come up with a factual answer to the question. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/2 "2007-01-13T09:53:55Z")
If Bush is a lame duck in office, that has to make Cheney a dead duck - and considering Cheney has said he has no intention of ever running for public office again, he has probably gone off into the sunset already. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/3 "2007-01-13T10:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] If Bush is a lame duck in office, that has to make Cheney a dead duck - and considering Cheney has said he has no intention of ever running for public office again, he has probably gone off into the sunset already. [/QUOTE] Well, if he wants to atone for his years in office (unlikely I know) he could always take up lawyer hunting again. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/4 "2007-01-13T10:41:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Where’s Dick Cheney? Hiding behind Waldo. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/5 "2007-01-13T13:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] I put this in IMHO, because I don’t think that anyone will be able to come up with a factual answer to the question. [/QUOTE] And I put this in The BBQ Pit because it is just a cheap excuse to pit Mr. Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/6 "2007-01-13T14:11:23Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] And I put this in The BBQ Pit because it is just a cheap excuse to pit Mr. Cheney. [/QUOTE] I disagree - Mr. Cheney has been quite an expensive pit. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/7 "2007-01-13T14:56:34Z")
On Thursday, he spoke in front of the Virginia General Assembly, and presented the Speaker of the House of Delagates and the President of the Senate with a set of coins commemorating the 400th anniversary of Jamestown. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/8 "2007-01-13T15:04:21Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] And I put this in The BBQ Pit because it is just a cheap excuse to pit Mr. Cheney. [/QUOTE] We don’t need no steeenking excuses to pit Dick Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/9 "2007-01-13T16:48:34Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] On Thursday, he spoke in front of the Virginia General Assembly, and presented the Speaker of the House of Delagates and the President of the Senate with a set of coins commemorating the 400th anniversary of Jamestown. [/QUOTE] “–the oldest permanent colony in America, whose survival was guaranteed, as we all know from history books, by a last-minute surge of colonists to defeat the local Algonquin insurgents. I think there’s a lesson there for all of us.” (stumbles, accidentally shoots President of the Senate in face) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/10 "2007-01-13T16:54:52Z")
Maybe Duhbya is hiding his Dick? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/11 "2007-01-13T18:30:12Z")
He’s having a party. And he needed to find _just the right_ Orphan to be the pinata. Yeessss. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/12 "2007-01-13T19:47:20Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Where’s Dick Cheney? [/QUOTE] In his house, counting his moneys. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/13 "2007-01-13T21:26:25Z")
I’m finding the obsession with Cheney a little silly. He’s Vice-President. His main job is just not to die. Granted, in keeping with the theme of incompetence, Cheney is not particularly well qualified for that job, but there really isn’t any necessary reason the Vice President HAS to be trotted out to defend or talk about anything. It’s not like the nation was screaming out for more Al Gore during Clinton’s Presidency either. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/14 "2007-01-13T21:30:03Z")
No link, but I remember a NYTimes article a year or two ago that essentially said that Cheney had pissed off so many people on the Hill that it was detrimental to send him to drum up support for a bill. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/15 "2007-01-13T22:35:40Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] I’m finding the obsession with Cheney a little silly. He’s Vice-President. His main job is just not to die. Granted, in keeping with the theme of incompetence, Cheney is not particularly well qualified for that job, but there really isn’t any necessary reason the Vice President HAS to be trotted out to defend or talk about anything. It’s not like the nation was screaming out for more Al Gore during Clinton’s Presidency either. [/QUOTE] The difference is, Gore wasn’t running the country. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/16 "2007-01-14T04:30:01Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] I’m finding the obsession with Cheney a little silly. He’s Vice-President. His main job is just not to die. [/QUOTE] And to break ties in the Senate. And to protect the space-time continuum. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/17 "2007-01-14T04:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=treis] No link, but I remember a NYTimes article a year or two ago that essentially said that Cheney had pissed off so many people on the Hill that it was detrimental to send him to drum up support for a bill. [/QUOTE] Said “fuck you” to one too many Senators, did he? ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/18 "2007-01-14T05:00:24Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Said “fuck you” to one too many Senators, did he? [/QUOTE] To be fair to Cheney (which isn’t likely to happen again anytime soon), I believe that he told a senator to go fuck himself. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/19 "2007-01-14T07:15:00Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] Hiding behind Waldo. [/QUOTE] …and right under Carmen Sandiego. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824/20 "2007-01-14T07:24:20Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] I’m finding the obsession with Cheney a little silly. He’s Vice-President. His main job is just not to die. [/QUOTE] Normally, that’s true - although the VP job description usually includes proposing unpopular ideas - but even non-Cheney haters would have to agree he’s perhaps the most powerful or influential VP in the history of the country, policy-wise. He’s not exactly John Adams, complaining about how “insignificant” his job is. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dick-cheney/387824.md?page=2)