Because the White House has signaled so strongly that it intends to use its capital to squelch the rights of gay people, this phrase is being used to direct a spotlight at the overt hypocrisy of this administration.
person a: gay people are destroying the family values which this country was founded on et cetera! dick cheney said so.
person b: dick cheney has a gay daughter!
person b: dick cheney has a gay daughter!
by teenager November 29, 2004
1.To act in a machiavellian way.
2. cutthroat, immoral, unprincipled, unconscionable, unethical, unscrupulous
2. cutthroat, immoral, unprincipled, unconscionable, unethical, unscrupulous
Bernie Madoff; Former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ; operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered to be the largest financial fraud in U.S. history, was on some Dick Cheney type sh*t.
by civil ape February 02, 2012
An expression of opposition to a proposed course of action. Something you'd rather not do, like getting shot in the face.
by B. Snooks June 15, 2010
a figure of speech expressing a fantasy, generally used to manipulate (ie. "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." --March 16, 2003, or "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." -- June 20, 2005)
He used many forms of cheneyism is his relationships with women, most commonly, "Of course I'll still respect you."
by waynenp August 03, 2006
It's like McCarthyism but instead of torturing and interrogating suspected commies, it's torturing and interrogating suspected terrorists
by GrizzlyBearone September 10, 2011
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