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Cheney is Getting Under My Skin

by BooMan
Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 09:50:55 PM EST

I cannot wait for Dick Cheney to leave office. I don't care how it happens, or if we have to wait until January 20, 2009. The man just makes me insane. Consider this:

Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he is a "big fan" of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
In a interview with CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, the vice president also said Gonzales has been truthful in his testimony before Congress.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, a Democrat, has said he doesn't trust Gonzales, but Cheney said the attorney general has the support of the only man who really counts.
"I've had my differences with Pat Leahy," Cheney said. "I think the key is whether or not he (Gonzales) has the confidence of the president — and he clearly does."

Only Dick Cheney would remind everyone that he once told Sen. Leahy to 'go fuck himself' while telling everyone that he's a big fan of a man that may soon be facing impeachment. But, then, Cheney has no respect for the rule of law, or for juries.

Cheney also discussed the case of his former top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. President Bush commuted the 2½-year prison term Libby received following his conviction in the CIA leak case.
The vice president said he disagreed with the jury's guilty verdict.
"You asked me if I disagreed with the verdict, and I did," he said.

What was there to disagree with? Is it supposed to be legal to lie to the FBI and a grand jury?

How do we get rid of this guy?

Cheney is Getting Under My Skin | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Cheney is Getting Under My Skin (4.00 / 2)

I know "How do we get rid of this guy?" was rhetorical. In my opinion, the best way to get rid of him is detain him and send him to the Hague. This would probably not happen prior to 19 Jan., 2007, but would be much more permanent. As an added bonus, you might put a damper on "Cheneyism".
They would have to add a wing onto the detention center in Scheveningen. He should have company.

"Coach Leary, walking on water wasn't built in a day" -Kerouac

by poicephalus (ragnarok2k at hotmail dot com) on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 10:36:12 PM EST

No Trash Dumping ... (none / 0)

.
in my backyard!

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 04:39:35 AM EST
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Re: No Trash Dumping ... (none / 0)

Most Estimable Oui,
on a certain level I regret suggesting that this offal should be placed (and equated) with Den Hague. However, only a tolerant society, such as yours, can be trusted not to abuse this position of trust. While it would be a burden to the Netherlands to have our War Criminals confined and tried in your country, please see this as a vote of confidence in the values and strength of your people.
C
ps Please take him! Otherwise we will have to try him on "ships at sea".

"Coach Leary, walking on water wasn't built in a day" -Kerouac

by poicephalus (ragnarok2k at hotmail dot com) on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:14:51 PM EST
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It's his latest media junket (none / 1)

Darth is going to be on Larry King, tonight. Lightsaber Fight

Keep the pink bottle from the medicine cabinet at the ready because King ain't gonna ask him the hard questions either.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 09:27:10 AM EST
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Re: Cheney is Getting Under My Skin (4.00 / 3)

We have to keep visualizing that massive aneurysm that blows apart his carotid arteries as he bleeds to death internally in a matter of seconds.

Visualize . . . OM OM OM . . . .

Share. Share resources, share delight, share burdens, share the healing. Sharing will bring us back from mass suicide. www.share-international.org

by Isis on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 10:45:16 PM EST

Re: Cheney is Getting Under My Skin (4.00 / 2)

Egads Isis...you really know how to push buttons! ;>)

I can't deny that I don't also hope for a clean and natural death. His beliefs are so far from my own that I consider him evil. He is the epitome of capitalistic greed gone bad. He has no compassion, only love of money and power. He would deny his own daughter's rights for money and power. How sad is that? His lies and manipulation will find him some day. I don't know how he looks at himself in a mirror, but I do know that he is not even worth my pity. He made his bed...

There's a sense that people in America aren't getting the truth. - George W. Bush (Gee, ya think?)

by Kamakhya (onyx at earthlink dot net) on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 11:09:40 PM EST
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Yes it is the sucking power of evil that it draws (none / 1)

you in.

From a moral point of view, only a clean death is permissible--firing squad aiming for the chest (NOT the gut) for example.

Applying the tortures that he himself devised, authorized, or instigated in Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, Poland, Czech republic, Bulgaria . . . is NOT permissible.

Perhaps best is if the Deities bring him his fate. May it be as he deserves!

We shall see.

by Gaianne on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 12:45:36 AM EST
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300 million vs 6 billion (none / 0)

Do the math. Would globo-corp prefer the needs of 300 million delusional energy sucking brats over the easily exploitable and historically proven to be controllable other six billion souls who occupy this planet? Which profit margin would one prefer.

Yes I did read the case studies of how Pepsi and Coke both wanted to "expand" into the Chinese markets and how Microshaft launched a campaign against software piracy, common in Asia. Instead of being impressed with this corporate savvy I was instead alarmed at the corporate willingness to sell their own grandmother into slavery for a few bucks.

The "thing" you want to kill is not a person, it is the Satanic ideal that money is everything.

by Lasthorseman (Lasthorseman@comcast.net) on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 10:19:25 PM EST

Re: Cheney is Getting Under My Skin (none / 0)

I still have this feeble hope that the Cheney shredder truck driver from last October will soon pull the van up to the front doors of the DNC and graciously unlock the back doors then go for a cup of coffee. I don't wish the man ill, but I do demand he be held accountable.

by mainsailset on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 11:02:34 PM EST

How About Cheney ... (none / 0)

.
going quail hunting with pal Al?
After a few drinks of course!

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 04:36:46 AM EST

Re: Cheney is Getting Under My Skin (none / 0)

Convince him that there's no more power to acquire and no more corporate profits to "earn", and he might just go away.

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin Survivor Left Blogistan

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 09:29:15 AM EST

Less power ... (none / 1)

.
A lot easier to remove his new battery.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:08:11 AM EST
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