Vice president D!ck "Shotgun" Cheney has died

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fukk him I smoking weed as type and naming this lye after him. It’s raining but I’ma throw sumn on the grill. Then gonna make a toast. And then maybe make a song dissing his dead ass like the YN’s do.

I’m sippin brown tonight what type of liq my coli family on this glorious celebration? :jbhmm:
 
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Hell is having a orgy in his honor.
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#catset #jetset
Wish it was someone else but we getting warmer (pause)

Dikk and Rummy definitely causing trouble in hell :russ:
i honestly forgot donald rumsfeld died :pachaha:

bush will probably live a pretty long time. his dad was pretty old. dikk cheney himself had a heart transplant, so he was on (a lot of) borrowed time. im honestly shocked he lived this long. i remember thinking he was gonna keel over any day when he was vice president.
 

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Crazy being in like middle school during this era. I’m curious if a similarly racial diverse republican cabinet like this could even exist in the currently climate.

I need to do the knowledge on this era fully, I was too young at the time to fully process what this brand of republicanism was even like since the current iteration seems so insane. Was it similar to now, from what I remember other than Bush being remedial was it as cartoonishly bad as now?

Maybe I’ll check that bio pic Christian Bale did a while back
Bush was far from perfect but it seemed like he tried to be halfway decent.


With three more picks, the president-elect has put together one of the most multicultural Cabinets in U.S. history.

Just looking at George W. Bush's Cabinet appointees, one could easily forget that the Republican president-elect is an opponent of affirmative action, racial quotas or preferences.

Bush has put together one of the most diverse Cabinets in American history, including two African-Americans, two Hispanics, three women and an Asian-American.

It rivals the diversity of the original Cabinet of President Clinton, who is an advocate of affirmative action and who promised that his administration would "look like America." In 1993, Clinton appointed three blacks, three women and two Hispanics.

The president-elect's latest choices announced Tuesday were Norman Mineta, a Democrat and the current commerce secretary, to head the Transportation Department; Linda Chavez, a former staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under the Reagan administration, as labor secretary; and former Sen. Spencer Abraham of Michigan as energy secretary.

Mineta, a former California congressman and a Japanese-American who was interned during World War II, was already the first person of Asian descent to be appointed to a Cabinet office. He will now become the first Cabinet secretary to go from one administration directly into another controlled by the opposite party. Chavez is the daughter of a Hispanic house painter; Abraham's parents were immigrants from Lebanon.

Yet when Bush was given an opportunity Tuesday to claim credit for the wide-ranging ethnic and racial makeup of his Cabinet appointees, he demurred. Instead, he chose to focus on the competence of his appointees _ saying they show "I'm not afraid to surround myself with strong and competent people."

Clearly, Bush is using the appointments process to make a political point. As he sees it, racial diversity can be achieved without affirmative action. In his campaign, he pledged instead to create "affirmative access" _ meaning that if everyone has an equal opportunity "to realize their potential," it will produce diversity.

This idea does not satisfy traditional civil rights advocates, however.

Just hours before Bush unveiled his final Cabinet appointments, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced that he would lead a battle against Senate confirmation of former Sen. John Ashcroft, Bush's nominee for attorney general, on grounds that he is insensitive on racial issues such as affirmative action.

He said he also would oppose Bush's nominee for head of the Environmental Protection Agency, New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, whose job is not considered part of the Cabinet. Jackson said he opposed Whitman on grounds she has defended racial profiling by law enforcement authorities in New Jersey.

Asked about Jackson's objections, Bush flatly told reporters gathered in Austin, Texas, that he expects all his nominees to be confirmed by the Senate, including Ashcroft.

"Jesse Jackson, in the great land of America, can do anything he wants to do," Bush said with a shrug.

Although Bush has not made an issue of the racial diversity of his Cabinet, some of his appointees have taken it upon themselves to make note of their varied ethnic origins.

Bush's African-American appointees are former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell for secretary of state and Houston School Superintendent Roderick Paige for education secretary. His Hispanic appointees are Chavez and Orange County chief executive Mel Martinez, a Cuban immigrant, for housing secretary.

The president-elect has named three women to the Cabinet: Chavez, former California Agriculture Director Ann Veneman as agriculture secretary, and former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton as interior secretary.

By naming Mineta, Bush kept his promise to include at least one Democrat in his Cabinet. The president-elect complained last week that he had considered a lot of other Democrats for positions, but none of them wanted to leave their current employment.

Until he retired in 1995, Mineta served 20 years in Congress, two of them as chairman of the House Transportation Committee. He was appointed to Clinton's Cabinet last July, and he campaigned during the last election for Bush's rival, Al Gore.

But Mineta tried to put partisan politics aside Tuesday.

"I believe that there is no more fertile ground for bipartisan consensus on what is necessary and right for our country than in the area of transportation

policy," he said. "There are no Democratic or Republican highways, no such thing as Republican or Democratic traffic congestion, no such thing as Republican or Democratic aviation and highway safety."

In naming Chavez, Bush emphasized that while she is best known for her conservative views _ including her opposition to affirmative action _ she is a former Democrat who once worked for a labor union, the American Federation of Teachers. She is currently a columnist and television commentator.

 
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Bush wasn't far from perfect but it seemed like he tried to be halfway decent.


With three more picks, the president-elect has put together one of the most multicultural Cabinets in U.S. history.

Just looking at George W. Bush's Cabinet appointees, one could easily forget that the Republican president-elect is an opponent of affirmative action, racial quotas or preferences.

Bush has put together one of the most diverse Cabinets in American history, including two African-Americans, two Hispanics, three women and an Asian-American.

It rivals the diversity of the original Cabinet of President Clinton, who is an advocate of affirmative action and who promised that his administration would "look like America." In 1993, Clinton appointed three blacks, three women and two Hispanics.

The president-elect's latest choices announced Tuesday were Norman Mineta, a Democrat and the current commerce secretary, to head the Transportation Department; Linda Chavez, a former staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under the Reagan administration, as labor secretary; and former Sen. Spencer Abraham of Michigan as energy secretary.

Mineta, a former California congressman and a Japanese-American who was interned during World War II, was already the first person of Asian descent to be appointed to a Cabinet office. He will now become the first Cabinet secretary to go from one administration directly into another controlled by the opposite party. Chavez is the daughter of a Hispanic house painter; Abraham's parents were immigrants from Lebanon.

Yet when Bush was given an opportunity Tuesday to claim credit for the wide-ranging ethnic and racial makeup of his Cabinet appointees, he demurred. Instead, he chose to focus on the competence of his appointees _ saying they show "I'm not afraid to surround myself with strong and competent people."

Clearly, Bush is using the appointments process to make a political point. As he sees it, racial diversity can be achieved without affirmative action. In his campaign, he pledged instead to create "affirmative access" _ meaning that if everyone has an equal opportunity "to realize their potential," it will produce diversity.

This idea does not satisfy traditional civil rights advocates, however.

Just hours before Bush unveiled his final Cabinet appointments, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced that he would lead a battle against Senate confirmation of former Sen. John Ashcroft, Bush's nominee for attorney general, on grounds that he is insensitive on racial issues such as affirmative action.

He said he also would oppose Bush's nominee for head of the Environmental Protection Agency, New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, whose job is not considered part of the Cabinet. Jackson said he opposed Whitman on grounds she has defended racial profiling by law enforcement authorities in New Jersey.

Asked about Jackson's objections, Bush flatly told reporters gathered in Austin, Texas, that he expects all his nominees to be confirmed by the Senate, including Ashcroft.

"Jesse Jackson, in the great land of America, can do anything he wants to do," Bush said with a shrug.

Although Bush has not made an issue of the racial diversity of his Cabinet, some of his appointees have taken it upon themselves to make note of their varied ethnic origins.

Bush's African-American appointees are former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell for secretary of state and Houston School Superintendent Roderick Paige for education secretary. His Hispanic appointees are Chavez and Orange County chief executive Mel Martinez, a Cuban immigrant, for housing secretary.

The president-elect has named three women to the Cabinet: Chavez, former California Agriculture Director Ann Veneman as agriculture secretary, and former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton as interior secretary.

By naming Mineta, Bush kept his promise to include at least one Democrat in his Cabinet. The president-elect complained last week that he had considered a lot of other Democrats for positions, but none of them wanted to leave their current employment.

Until he retired in 1995, Mineta served 20 years in Congress, two of them as chairman of the House Transportation Committee. He was appointed to Clinton's Cabinet last July, and he campaigned during the last election for Bush's rival, Al Gore.

But Mineta tried to put partisan politics aside Tuesday.

"I believe that there is no more fertile ground for bipartisan consensus on what is necessary and right for our country than in the area of transportation

policy," he said. "There are no Democratic or Republican highways, no such thing as Republican or Democratic traffic congestion, no such thing as Republican or Democratic aviation and highway safety."

In naming Chavez, Bush emphasized that while she is best known for her conservative views _ including her opposition to affirmative action _ she is a former Democrat who once worked for a labor union, the American Federation of Teachers. She is currently a columnist and television commentator.

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