Where Frist will diagnose Cheney as "soul-living."

He gets to sit next to Nancy Pelosi during the State ofthe Union address. 'Cause you know, she will be third in line for the Presidency,if necessary. Think he'll ask her what she will be wearing so their outfits won't clash? Nah, I don't think so either.

Maybe he will finally explain why he and Tom Delay injected themselves into our personal lives like he did with the Terri Schiavo case.

I hope Frist isn't planning a return to practicing medicine! How scary would that be!

Frist will be a huge loss to the GOP - they'll be losing their on-call Dr. who is guaranteed to pronounce the most brain-dead right-winger "healthy." (Cheney - who'd a thought Darth Vadar had an older, meaner brother.)

I don't think anybody has missed him.

That fat, evil little man does not deserve any attention from good people.

Why does Frist get a "farewell speech?"......Why does'nt he just show some class and LEAVE without saying a word. As for Cheney, well I think that E.R. Doctor put it best last year when he said......."Go **** yourself Mr. Cheney, Go **** yourself!"

Cheney was at the Kennedy awards gala, there's a photo of him in the presidential box with wife Lynne on my site. Not sure if he's awake or not...

Finally, the lame ducks are leaving town, Mr. Frist can continue scamming with his holdings in that hospital rip-off he was caught last year but of course the neo-cons republicans swept it under the rug. Mr. Cheney can go quail hunting and maybe shoot another human being, only difference he might be prosecuted this time. Welcome to DC democrats, do it right this time!!!!!!

The first and only thing that comes to mind is, "Look out Nancy, there is a quail behind you!:

Cheney should stay under his rock at his undisclosed location and not torture us with his presence in presiding over anything.

In theaters near you: "Dick Himself" starring a partially vivified Roy Cohn playing Dr Strangelove on Xanax. This film is unrated due to abhorrent language and graphically sadistic themes. Unsuitable viewing fare for living beings, humorous conclusion notwithstanding.

Some on here seem very petty and ery frustrated. Get into politics and fix all the ills you find wrong.

Too bad it isn't Mr. Cheney giving his farewell speech. Oh wait, we still have some borrowed money in the treasury he hasn't given to Haliburton, he can't leave till it's all gone, has to finish his job...time to say goodnight Dick....

I think the fact that we write in to 'first read' is because we're 'into' politics or maybe its 'into' us. This place is our chance to see who agrees with us or doesn't. Petty? Nothing we say can top this Administrations' Stranglehold on Petty. 'Frustrated' is a given when observing the lack of participation in this discussion by many Americans, not just here but everywhere. 'Frustrated' is a given when this Administration continually jerks the Constitution apart and gets away with it. We're not 'into frustration', we're 'into ventilation'.

Somebody needs to speak up when doctors are in the middle of murder. Terri Shivo deserved to live. They are also in the midst of muder during abortions. If the baby were born naturally and the Mother let it lay there and die. She would be arrested for murder. What is the difference just because a doctor does it with knives and scaples. Both is murder.

Cheney? Alive? Since when? What a waste of human flesh. No compassion, and such a "yes man" to King George. If Cheny took Bush quail hunting......hmmmmm!!!!!

When Cheney re-emerges, if he sees his shadow do we get another 6 years of war?

Terri Shivo was dead. Every Doctor that examined her in person said she was dead. Politicians that watched a tape do not get a say in who lives or dies. This was a private family matter. The government needs to keep its nose out of our life. I find it sad that the party that is supposed to be for small government has to be told this.

I am constantly amazed by these ,so called,christian,people who are obsessed with Homosexuality and abortion.They do not caare a whit about our young men and women who are being blown apart every day in an illegal and disasterous war,yet they are forever yelling about abortion being murder.Killing is murder no matter who or where it is being done.However you never hear them mention the Bush war.I guess when Bush and Cheney approve of it that makes murder fine and dandy.

They still get away with it, don't they; those freaks that startet that war.

Nannie- so many prattle about abortion- this is true. But some parents are raising a generation of loose moraled kids, kids who sleep w/ anyone, spreading disease, breeedin children that are not cared for, children left adrift in this world. Hollywood portarys sex as sometihn akin to blinking an eye, but many of our kids are copulating at age 14 and have no respect for the human body. Generation of unprincipled vipers, raised by abusers and violence

What of the "freaks" who suplied the materials that kill? Are they any different? The military-defense conglomeration breeds war, push conflict in order to get contracts. Former politicans are the main benefactors, as they employed by these engines of doom. Why do we not seek thier head on a platter, instesad of always trying to fry the President? I think, to get real, if any government offical profitted from a military-defense deal, in stocks, bonds, etc, they to need to be held accountable. If they voted for WAR, knowing they would gain..shame on these killers!!!

SHIAVO. Terry died the instant she was put into a permanent vegatative state. M(r)s. Stanford - If your kin was put into a PERMANENT VEGATATIVE STATE would you let their body linger and wilt, eating your family's heart as well as your income, or would you do the humane thing and let them go? I had the displeasure of dealing with this decision myself 5 years ago when my mother was in an accident and had an order to not rescusitate or revive. The doctor went against this anyways- ignoring her legal living will- and put it on us. In either case, abortion or ending a P.V.S. patients life- is not the government's right to judge, nor is it yours until you are in the situation yourself. I just hope you never have to be in either predicament. Take the blinders off, or find a country to live in that doesn't subscribe freedom of choice and speech.

To Joan Stanford: Apparently, you are ignorant of Medicine and forensic pathology. Terri "tuber" Shiavo, or whatever her name was, was a veggieBrain. It was proven on autopsy. I work in a trauma hospital and see people like her quite often. Her body was functioning because when she coded years ago her heart was not sick enough to keep her dead. Can you imagine, however, if she WERE alive in there, how horrible her existance was? Someone had to feed her thru a tube, wipe her butt every time she voided or had a BM? and she couldn't even object if she wished to be left alone!! EWWWWW! That, my friend, is torture, not care. Her husband knew her wishes, and our government had no right to walk in there and make a spectacle of her. Dubya was only trying to make points with "his base". Isn't that sad?

We still have 2 more years of the puppet master pulling the strings, as he has been the president all along (the village idiot has simply been the front man). Now Cheney is coming out of the dark? Wouldn't it be wonderful to actually get a breath of fresh honesty and candor from this administration? It will NEVER happen.

Please give these comments to Keith Olberman as he is one of the few journalists who's commentary currently reflects the sentiment of the people. Need I say more?

I wouldn't be too surprised if Cheney resigned before Bush's term is up now that Rumsfeldt is leaving. If he does, I would bet health concerns are cited rather than Bush asking/telling him to step aside. After last month's elections, I would hope someone got a clue what the American people thought.

At one time it was going around that Cheney was the power behind the throne? Is Cheney Bush's Rasputin traveling incognito? Is he a reincarnation of the Reagans' astrologer? If so, he's sure keeping a low pro lately. Like maybe he enjoys calling the shots but not taking heat for the consequences. Maybe he could make an apperance with Brit Hume and let us know what's up.

It never ceases to amaze me how gullible the voting population in the US can be. I remember waaaay back pre-2000 election that I told people who were singing Bush's praises that he was a major bad idea because he was weak-minded and simple-in-thought. And I said that the REAL power in the Republican Party was the psychotic fringe of the NeoCons - with Cheney holding their Ideological Sceptre - coupled with the Freakvangelical Christians trying to make America into the fantasy image of "Little House on the Prairie" while "assisting Israel" hoping Jesus would return on the clouds once "prophecy was fulfilled". And they looked at me like I was crazy. Uh huh. Then when the ranting about invading Iraq came along I told these same gullibles that Iraq had serious ulterior motives behind it not the least of which was the NeoCon hope for vindication against Bush 41 for overrulling them, Cheney at the top of the list, when Bush 41 actually payed attention to serious advisors and had forgone a full invasion way back in '91.... The when the invasion occurred and my gullible buddies were wetting themselves in glee proclaiming that the Iraqis were, and I quote here, "dancing in the streets and thanking Amurrica" for liberating them that it wouldn't last and they'd be in civil war before it was all over. And I didn't tell them this because I'm some sort of psychic genius. I told them all of this because I actually pay attention and read what the real experts say about things like, Oh, historical perspective and serious intelligence and data analysis. As Elliott Gould says in "Ocean's Twelve", "Didn't you see the signs? I saw the signs." Meanwhile, my buddies were swilling bad beer "lite", flailing their arms and going all cathartic over "Jeeesus" and watching NASCAR as if it were the officially sanctioned non-sport of the Creator Itself. I just shook my head and waited for it to all crash down around our ears - again. My opinion is still out on whether ignorant bliss is all its cracked up to be.......

Tommy in Dayton, From what you have wrote above; I thought I was thinking out loud. What the heck were we all thinking? Thank goodness this is all coming to an end. I feel sorry for all the good people in this nation that were taken for a ride. May this lying administration pay it's dues down the road for all the bad it has brought to the world. I do have a question... the first amendment protects corporation executives and the corporation inwhich they run, does that mean it protects any presidential administration that thinks governement runs like a corporation? See them all in court... real soon. PEACE and may God Bless The World (not just the USA)!

Well said Tom! Thank you. I couldn't have said it better.

Just go away Dick 'I <3 torture & war profiteering' Cheney* and you too Frist... I <3 shootin' people in the face too and callin' Democrats terrorists, and Saddam/Bin Laden planned 9/11 I swear!... aw shut up Dick

Terri Shiavo was brain-dead..which makes her perfectly qualified to be "Dubya's" Vice President. He probably fought so hard to keep her alive in case Cheney kicked the bucket...

I guess it was only a matter of time before Dick Cheney would show his face again. He's no dummy. Clearly, he knows his influence in dictating policy has been greatly diminished. He has seen his friend, Don Rumsfeld, formally demoted (pushed aside), and knows the reality of his unspoken demotion in stature. Rumsfeld and Cheney were the bullying duo whispering policy directives into the ear of the "never look under the rug" man in charge of the Executive Branch. For six years now they have successfully squelched dissenting views, belittled or demoted those who tried to speak reality (Shinseki, Powell, Rice, et. al) and have enjoyed a position of leadership and confidence in the eyes of a President who, until the 2006 election results were posted, refused to believe the bad reports (though truthful) about the poor results of a misdirected, misguided, and failed Iraqi policy. Mr. Cheney needed a few weeks of mourning. He needed to sulk a bit and get used to this new power shift. Now, finally, perhaps, George W. Bush will place his confidence in folks who have a more practical and open minded view of how to set policy and solve problems. Perhaps, now, we will finally get to see Condeleeza Rice shine. Perhaps, now the son will acquiesce to the offerings of advice and guidance from the wise father and former President, G. H. W. Bush. The appointment of Mr. Gates to Sec. of Defense, at least at first glance, appears to be a step in the right direction. I still don't have much faith in this current admnistration's ability to change course and do the right thing. But, at least, there's cause for optimism. Cheney can enjoy sitting around and "observing" others for the final two years of his Vice Presidency. He's earned a spot on the bench. It's time for the new blood to step up and right the ship. Things are so bad that there isn't much time for a learning curve. May God be with this new team as they take on these challenges.

Could it be that Cheney will resign due to health reasons soon? Then maybe soon to be unemployed Jed Bush could take Cheney's position. I wonder if Bush 41's performance yesterday was to put Jed in the spot light. This would put Jed in good position for 2008. I think 41's performance equals the Dick and Lyne Cheney's performance expressing their outrage at Kerry for saying something about their daughter Mary. I think both performances were overboard.

When "Duh-Bya" got elected I was reminded of the a night in November 1972 when George McGovern stated, "I haven't lost this election...the American people have." On that night, 34 years ago, Americans elected a man who said he had a "secret" plan for getting out of Vietnam and who ran on a "law and order" theme to reduce crime in the US. Well, Vietnam went on for almost three more years and the man was a crime wave unto himself. Six years ago we elected a man who reminds me of Nixon without a brain. At least "Tricky Dick" understood the need to talk to our enemies in order to get anything done.

Why should Cheney resign? Resign from what? A title? Certainly not a job because he doesn't do a damned thing. Doesn't even bother to come to work. Oh, correction. He campaigned among the good ol' boys for a couple of months. His days of running the country as the puppetmaster of the dumbest president ever to hold the office are over. With a lame duck president and a shift in Washington politics; with the country about as polarized as it can be; with irreparable damage done to our military, our reputation in the world, our budget and our opinions of politicians in general (of which there are many fine ones who are taking a bum rap for the others), with his buds at Haliburton and its subsidiaries flush and protected, he can stay away and hunt as long as he wishes. Why would he resign?

For the love of God and Country, someone feed the man a cheesesteak and get him out of office.

Redonkulous--a better idea would be a Taco Bell meal with extra green onions....

Oh, I don't think that there's much danger of anyone forgetting 'Uncle Dick' anytime soon. At least I hope not! He's the second most frightening figure to be allowed to attain high government office in American history. Number one, of course, being George W. Even Richard Nixon never involved us in a mess of the magnitude of theirs!

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