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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Cheney is such a freakin' coward. He's unwilling to submit to a press conference where he might, gasp, get unfriendly questions, so instead he goes running to the GOP's favorite handmaiden, Faux News. No doubt they'll give him the Gitmo treatment there:
"Mr. Vice President, do you feel badly that some say you were too concerned about your friend's health? Do you think it's wrong to rush to a stricken friend's side they way you did, as some Democrats say?"
If shooting someone in the chest and face "affects no one" and "means nothing" than why did a blow job cause such uproar?
So typical...
Just like Clinton cheating on his wife. It's a private matter.
I find it interesting that Republican talking-heads proclaiming the Vice President's shooting a man to be insignificant becasue it "affects no one." Was this not the same logic used in the Clinton/Lewinski scandal- that it was the private buisness of two consenting adults?
Even more so in the Clinton case as there is no liscence required, no relavant laws around "trysting while intoxicated" and certianly no risk of immediate death.
I distinctly remember one of the early TV reports about this incident mentioned in passing that there were 3 people in the hunting party and the 3rd person was a female. That actually resonated with me but my once dirty mind chose instead to assume she must have been some flunky who was there to wait on Cheney and Whittington hand and foot. I think it's interesting as hell though that up until now I haven't heard any other mention of there even being 3 people in the hunting party. I say "up until now" because now there's a little ripple or two going thru the blogosphere that there was a female in the hunting party, she was there as Cheney's guest, and she's Pamela Willeford, our ambassador to Switzerland. I don't care if it was Zippy the Chimp in drag ... I can't wipe the snarky little grin off my face.
With apologies to Zippy, I'm sure Fox will be all over this like ugly on an ape.
Is anyone else feeling as absolutely depressed as I am? I can't believe that we are living under the control of what is, for all practical purposes, a fascist junta. And the Democratic party does NOTHING. NOTHING. They can't get a message together, they can't counteract anything...the Bush administration runs roughshod over Americans, and people all over the world, and we all sit here like a bunch of fools, while nothing changes.
If Al Gore had shot someone under the Clinton administration, the Republicans would have had Congressional hearings scheduled the next day, not to mention the special prosecutors. What do the Democrats do now, when our VP gets trigger happy? Nothing.
If Abramoff had been fattening the coffers of legions of Democrats? It would have been a constant sickening refrain on all the news, all the time, for months and months, and there would have had Congressional hearings, special prosecutors or even impeachment. And today, the Democrats sit around scratching their heads.
If Clinton did the illegal wiretapping? Congressional hearings, special prosecutors and impeachment. And today, the Democrats try to figure out how to make something stick, and fail, as usual.
Clinton went to wear telling us that Saddam had WMD? Congressional hearings, special prosecutors and impeachment. Democrats? They wifflewaffle, a la Hillary, and get NOWHERE.
Clinton couldn't find Osama Bin Laden after 5 years and billions of dollars spent? Congressional hearings, special prosecutors and impeachment.
I have been a Democrat forever, but you know what? I want to be in another party. Something different, something new, something that actually DOES SOMETHING!!!!!
I wish we could turn in the hand and get fresh cards when it comes to being Democrats. Because Howard Dean is useless. Hillary is a nightmare. And no one is speaking for ME!! None of these chuckleheads is outraged and actually does anything about it.
WHY AREN'T THE DEMOCRATS DOING ANYTHING?
WHY CAN OUR VICE PRESIDENT SHOOT ANOTHER MAN, AND EXCEPT FOR LATE NITE JOKES AND MEDIA INTERROGATION, FACE NO POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES?
WHY CAN OUR PRESIDENT STEAL A FIRST ELECTION, AND THEN HAVE HIS ARTHITECT ENGINEER THE SECOND, AND NO ONE DOES ANYTHING???
I'M SICK, SICK, SICK OF LIVING under the junta, and yet I'm also SICK, SICK, SICK that the Democrats don't seem to be able to organize a bake sale, much less mount an opposition to this insidious administration.
Is anyone else as sick as I am of it all??
Mary
Living in Washington, wish it was anywhere else...
Film @ eleven.
If it's any comfort Mary, I'm as sick of it all as you are. I'm 58 years old and a lifelong Democrat. I used to be proud to be an American. Now, thanks to George Bush, I'm embarrassed to be an American. And, quite frankly, I'm not all that thrilled about living in Ohio either, where I'm represented by 2 Republican senators (Voinovich and DeWine) and a Republican congressman (Steve LaTourette). I write one email after another to these clowns, even though I know that I'm completely wasting my time. I've yet to get a meaningful response from either of my senators -- I've got a drawerful of form letters from LaTourette. In desperation, I've even tried writing to Democratic senators from other states begging them to take a stand, to speak out, to do SOMETHING. I tell them that I'm from Ohio and that I have no one else to turn to. And you know what? A lot of their websites make it abundantly clear that if you don't live in Senator Blah-Blah's state then don't expect to even get a response to your email. I'm pretty sure that really means don't expect Senator Blah-Blah to even bother reading your email. Well, thanks a lot, Senator Blah-Blah. (I did, however, get a nice response when I poured my heart out to Russ Feingold.)
The neocons are taking over this country and the only thing most of middle America seems to be passionate about is their apathy! Oh wait, I just got an email from MoveOn.org:
Dear MoveOn member,
The Washington Post is reporting today that the Senate may abandon its bid to fully investigate the president's illegal domestic spying program. The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote on a full investigation tomorrow and Sen. DeWine's vote is absolutely critical if an investigation is going to occur. ... Can you call Sen. DeWine and tell him to do his job and investigate the president's illegal program?
Senator Mike DeWine
Phone: 202-224-2315
I could SCREAM. Does MoveOn.org honestly think I'm going to waste my time trying to get a call through to Mike DeWine so that I can tell him to "do his job"?!?! Hell, Olympia Snowe is backing down on this and she's got a lot more spine than Mike DeWine ever thought of having. I'm hearing the White House is exerting huge pressure on this committee to drop the investigation -- even Cheney paid the Repub members a little visit yesterday. I'm pretty sure every registered voter in Ohio could try calling Mike DeWine and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference if he's already caved in to WH pressure. And after the vote is over tomorrow the damn Democrats on the Intelligence Committee will no doubt just sit there and say "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
My party has abandoned me and it's abandoned this country. To make matters worse, the so-called mainstream media gets it shorts in a twist over a hunting accident but doesn't even make a fuss over secret European prisons, torture, domestic spying on American citizens, the outing of a CIA agent that was apparently authorized by Cheney and/or Bush, a pack of lies told to us to justify going to war in Iraq, Presidential "signing statements" being used as some kind of executive "get out of jail free" card whenever it suits him, a Congressional bribery scandal that should have shocked the shit out of Congress and this country but hasn't beause the MSM is complicit in the Republican spin that the Democrats are just as corrupt as the Republicans. The list just goes on and on and on.
Mary, if you find another party worth joining, let me know ... I'll join too.
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