RIP Dick Cheney, 84

[thewayne]

Or should that be good riddance to bad rubbish? Depends on your voting preferences perhaps. Well, mine are fairly well known.

He died from "...complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease." He had already had one heart transplant in 2012 after a long history of cardiovascular disease.

Aside from masterminding the 2003 war in Iraq with no solid basis in facts, Cheney served as an aide to Richard Nixon, stayed as deputy White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, then Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush with a unanimous Senate vote of 92-0. He also served six terms as a House member rising to become minority party whip.

I will say some good things about him, surprisingly:
-He softened his views on LGBTQ issues when one of his daughters came out
-He voted for Harris in the 2024 election
-He absolutely loathed our current president, stating “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said.

“He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know.”

Amusingly, starting yesterday the Doonesbury reruns on the Washington Post web site began the series of a Walden reunion where the returning grads are dividing themselves in the tent between pro- and anti- Bush supporters. Rather ironic timing.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit

Comments

[kaishin108]

And here I used to think he was the worst of the worst. We have really gone downhill, sigh.

[thewayne]

It is kind of a dissonant thing to think that he was not a low-water mark.

[dewline]

Agreed on this point.

[ranunculus]

Yeah, the name Dick Cheney doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy either.

[disneydream06]

Was he against The Felon, yes, as far as I know, but that's not enough to balance out the rest of him. :o
So I'll say good riddance.
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

This is true.

[dewline]

Goodbye. Good riddance.

[richardf8]

Or should that be good riddance to bad rubbish?
The term you are looking for is ימח שמו
May his name be erased

[thewayne]

That's a good phrase.

[moxie_man]

Good riddance, but not the obit I wanted to wake-up to. Oh well, close second or third.

[garote]

In the past 15 years or so I've generally remembered him like so:

https://nadaespecial.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/cheney2.jpg?w=420

[thewayne]

That's hillarious!

[silveradept]

Damnatio memoriae to him, even though he seems to have been a rare person with principles and willing to change his mind, when it personally affected him.