Just when you thought Republicans couldn’t sink any lower, they ask Dick Cheney, the guy who screwed up Iraq, for advice on how to fix Iraq. Seriously, I’m not kidding.

On Tuesday afternoon, the former Vice President spoke to House Republicans at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, where he urged them to take a hard line in the fight against ISIS. The meeting was basically the GOP’s version of a pep rally, and Cheney spent most of the time bashing “isolationists” and talking about how the Bush administration put the U.S. in a position to “win” in Iraq.

Naturally, of course, he said nothing about how everything that’s going wrong in the Middle East right now can be tied back to the Bush administration.

According to the New York Times, “[Cheney] did not discuss the fact that many ISIS leaders were former Iraqi military officers who were imprisoned by American troops, nor did he dwell on the sectarian divisions and bloodletting since the 2003 American invasion.”

Excuse me for a second while I go barf.

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Need to Know: Why Isn't Congress Voting on ISIS Plan?
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Lone Liberal Rumble:
- Horace Cooper - National Center for Public Policy Research
- Andrew Kloster, The Heritage Foundation

Everything You Know Is Wrong: Why This Generation Are Late Bloomers...
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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Obama To Deliver Address On ISIS Threat Wednesday Night" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "Qatar’s Support of Islamists Alienates Allies Near and Far" by David D. Kirkpatrick.

Article: "Transcript: Translation of Bin Laden's Videotaped Message", November 1, 2004.

Article: "Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks" by Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore.

Article: "Foreign Government Contributions to Nine Think Tanks" by Brooke Williams, Eric Lipton and Alicia Parlapiano.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

The good: "At AFL-CIO Convention, Sanders Proposes Wealth Tax" by Michael Briggs.

The bad: "DiGiorno Pizza tweet using #WhyIStayed leaves company apologizing on Twitter" by Deb Stanley.

The very, very ugly: Danny Ferry: "NBA General Manager Told Colleagues Player 'Has A Little African In Him'" by Tom Kludt.

Article: "My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Article: "'Thank God for the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback" by Steve Clemons.

Hour Two: Pay gap widens...workers v. CEO's
- Scottie Nell Hughes, Tea Party News Network / ROAR: The New Conservative Woman Speaks Out

Article: "Workers Get Lowest Share Of Corporate Income Since 1950" by Bryce Covert.

Book: "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" by George W. Bush, Mickey Herskowitz.

Article: "Cenk Uygur" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Ghost plane' crashes off Jamaica, after being tracked by US fighter jets over Atlantic" by Mary Schlangenstein.

Article: "Cheney rips Obama's foreign policy" by CNN.

Article: "Cheney: Israel, Arabs Allies Think Obama Supports Muslim Brotherhood" by Pam Key.

Talk Radio News Segment:
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Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/10/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/9/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Cheney rips Obama's foreign policy, tells GOP to focus on defense in midterms" by Deirdre Walsh.

Article: "Senate Votes In Favor Of Paycheck Fairness Act" by Leah Schwarting.

Article: "Is Ted Cruz Looking for Another Government Shutdown?" by Eric Pianin.

Article: "Senators blast DOD program that 'militarized police'" by Tim Devaney.

Article: "Georgia State Senator Complains That Voting Is Too Convenient For Black People" by Josh Israel.

Article: "REPORT: NY Times Public Editor Is Right: Paper's Reporting Misses The Truth About Voter ID Half The Time" by Chance Seales.

Article: "The Beheadings Are Bait" by Matthew Hoh.

Article: "Dick Cheney Eloquently Explains Why Invading Iraq Would Be A Horrible Idea".

Article: "‘ISIS’ vs. ‘ISIL’ vs. ‘Islamic State’: The political importance of a much-debated acronym" by Jaime Fuller.

Movie: "The American President".

Movie: "Bulworth".

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