The Charmed Life of Dick Cheney

[FightingIrish]

Behind his signature sneer, Dick Cheney has to be the happiest guy on the planet. In spite of a chain of debacles for the United States, Cheney continues to live a charmed, albeit medically precarious, life. To borrow a phrase from Barbra Bush, “this is working very well for him.” The darkest hours of our history are the joyous climax of his cynical life quest.

When a group of frustrated neoconservatives decided to seize power with a manufactured presidency, Dick gleefully agreed to put himself in the driver’s seat. A disastrous election that shook our faith in democracy was sheer perfection for the power-crazed Cheney. He not only grabbed the keys to the kingdom but he got to shove it in our faces.

While the Bush presidency seemed to be floundering in its first months, the enterprising Vice President was busy setting the stage for domination of the world’s energy resources. The all too convenient terror attacks on America opened the door to his first bold steps on the world stage. While we dealt with our collective grief, Bush stood on the rubble heap with a bullhorn and Cheney labored on in an undisclosed location. It was all coming together.

The flow of American blood in Iraq means nothing to this man. For Cheney the war is a gusher and money and power flow steadily into the corporate coffers that spawned this cynical kleptocrat. War serves nothing as well as it serves the transfer of wealth and Cheney and his friends are on the receiving end big time.

Blasting a political ally in the face with a shotgun was a great embarrassment only because his subsequent actions unmasked the truth that Cheney answers to nobody. His dismal approval ratings must be a source of amusement to him because it means nothing and has in no way diminished his unchecked power. He has stacked the deck with a cabinet that dutifully serves his purpose and he has almost completed the installation of the Cheney court. Even the dunce that calls himself president would have the imagination to bring in talented new blood. Instead we have seen the constant recycling of the usual suspects and even the publicly disgraced Donald Rumsfeld still has a seat at the table.

Bush is a clueless lame duck but Cheney is a man on a mission with almost two full years left to achieve what he clearly sees within reach. For most Americans war with Iran is a frightening possibility. For Cheney it is one of the few unchecked boxes on his “to do” list. Democrats can make great waves about reclaiming the constitutional power of Congress but they are wasting valuable time that Cheney will use to his advantage. The proceedings in the trial of his chief of staff make it clear to all of us that Cheney is untouchable. The only way to wipe that cynical self-satisfied sneer off his face is to impeach him immediately.

[Erika]

1. I would love to

He's probably the biggest traitor this country has ever known. A chickenhawk who refused to fight in Vietnam but who glories in sending troops overseas. He hugged Saddam and gave him the chemicals to use on Kurds.

Meanwhile, he's robbing the American taxpayers blind while the few Bush enablers applaud him.

[babylonsister]

2. BIG Ouch! K&R. What about all his 'friends', who've said he was never

like this, but he's 'changed'? And I'm thinking of David Gergen.

[vssmith]

6. Did his tenure at Halliburton cause this change?

[Canuckistanian]

7. Wealth doesn't change someone

It unmasks them.

[Virginia Dare]

8. I don't buy that "he's changed" b.s...

I think he was always this way, he's just become much more powerful. He knew how to play the toady and the sycophant to a tee, but he was always waiting like the proverbial snake in the grass for his time.

[Laurab]

10. Actually he may have changed

I just finished reading the book "Vice", and there is some interesting information about heart attacks and how they might affect the brain. Cheney has had several, I believe he also has a pacemaker and something else to keep his heart pumping at the correct rate. (Defill..... I know I can't spell it right).

Those strokes and/or heart attacks, combined with the numerous medications he's taking, may have caused him to change. I truly believe, after this administration, that the person elected to the highest office in the land, along with their second-in-command, should have to undergo some serious mental and physical testing. I don't believe either of them are fit to hold office.

[Bozita]

3. Excellent! ... Worthy of a s-l-o-w read.

Recommended

[patrice]

4. Before the Invasion of Iraq, domestic oil cost more to get out

of the ground than they were making on it at something around $10. a barrel. They were going broke. They're doing fine now. Another Republican bail out, this one tied to a government subsidized war profiteering jobs program, socialism, rooted in the middle-class jobs base and perpetuated by the revolving door between the military and the private contracting and arms sectors, thus insuring the votes to keep Republicans sending folks to war forever.

[babylonsister]

5. Who is doing fine now? You mean those close to a million dead Iraqis?

Please. So you consider this war a blessing? :eyes:

[patrice]

9. You mis-understood the post. n/t