Hail* to the Spokesman for Fear and Hate and Greed

While a member of the U. S. House of Representatives as the at-large congressman of Wyoming, 1979-1989, Richard B. Cheney:

* Repeatedly voted against programs designed to provide assistance to displaced workers.
* Voted against legislation requiring factory owners to notify employees before closing their plants.
* Cast 10 separate votes against funding nutrition programs for children, including one vote opposing a move to protect food programs for women and infants from budget cuts.
* Repeatedly voted against maintaining funding for Head Start programs.
* Voted against a measure that granted time off for federal employees to care for sick family members.
* Voted against the Hunger Relief Act, which expanded eligibility for the federal food stamp program.
* Voted against providing mortgage assistance for low income home buyers.
* Opposed college student aid programs contained in the Higher Education Act.
* During the recession of the early 1980s, voted to block extension of unemployment benefits, including a provision that would provide health insurance for unemployed workers and their families.
* Voted against the Equal Rights Amendment.
* Voted for Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
* Voted to limit Social Security cost-of-living adjustments for retired Americans living on fixed incomes.
* Was one of only eight members of the House to vote against renewing the Older Americans Act, which provided nutritional and other support services for elderly Americans. (If Cheney’s opposition had succeeded, the entire nutritional program would have effectively been shut down).
* Voted against limiting out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare recipients, most of whom were senior citizens. His votes were so consistently counter to the interests of the elderly that a Cox News Service headline declared, “Senior Groups Call Cheney’s Voting Record a Disaster.”
* Not only did Cheney’s votes tend toward unfairness on domestic issues, he actually voted against sanctioning South Africa’s apartheid regime for its repressive policies. He was also a vocal opponent of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison.

from "Dick Cheney’s Contempt for Americans," a post on the blog, God's Politics, by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. Mr. Hendricks is the author of The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted.

(*Did I say "hail"? That's the way we Madisonians pronounce H-E-double-hockey-sticks.)