To commemorate Human Events’s naming Dick Cheney the Conservative of the Year. My humble thanks to Dick Cheney, for having the balls to say what needs to be said, for leading the way as a man in this political world of boys, weaklings and cowards, and for allowing me and my family to feel safer knowing he exists in the world.

 He is the pacemaker of America.

 – From an American citizen.

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Dick Cheney said it.

CBS confirmed it.

Gibbs cried about it.

LA Times labeled it .

So did the Brits.

Washington Post’s David Broder used it.

Democrats knew it  and called it, with the LA Times noting how Cheney was the guy who “single-handedly reinvented the wonderful Wyoming word ‘dithering’.”

Even Chris Matthews likened it to Chamberlain’s Nazi appeasement.

Cheney’s “dithering” made the rounds in the world of political punditry until finally, it morphed into the most useful adjective to describe Obama – as in “dithering Obama” — both domestically and abroad .

The original quote?

“Dithering” comes from ”Concerns about America’s Foreign Policy Drift,” Cheney’s October 21st speech at the Center for Security Policy:

 It’s time for President Obama to make good on his promise. The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger.

Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries. Waffling, while our troops on the ground face an emboldened enemy, endangers them and hurts our cause.

And two months later, on December 2nd, after Obama’s 8-month delay in announcing his Afghanistan Strategy, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — the Taliban – added themselves to the list of observers of Obama’s ”dithering“:

The American President Obama has announced his strategy after months of dithering.

Sleep well knowing the Taliban are listening to Cheney, too.

This is here, too.