to get an satellite view of the naval observatory (the VP residence) in DC. As far as I can tell, it's the only place in DC that's been so completely distorted you can't make anything out.

Nah, he didn't exceed his authority.

It might be that the other anglers on the river are the ones who should really worry....

it's clear at this point that Cheney gave authorization to shoot down any other hijacked commercial flights on 9/11, a decision he knew was outside his office's authority. as just one example.

subverts our Constitution, sneers at any idea of his accountability in this administration, generally behaves like an arrogant @#$%#$&! and gets to walk off into the sunset with his pockets stuffed with cash and fishing pole in hand... why WOULD anyone feel sorry for him? He's got one heck of a job.

The first thing I thought of when I saw the headline was a lawyer with a fishing hook stuck in his face, and having to apologize to Cheney for getting in his way!

At first I thought we'd soon hear about an elderly lawyer with a fishhook in his eye (while sundry trollops await back at the cabin), then I realized he could strangle someone with the fishing line "accidentally".

I loved the statement about people making up things that never happened -- urban legends -- about the administration. I guess the things that he made up over the past 8 years fall into the category of Global Legends. And the line about people feeling sorry for him is another classic. If there's a person in this world less sympathy worthy, I'd hate to meet him or her.

His indecency is consistent. As he shoots caged birds, he hooks caged fish.

But the part he muttered under his breath that we didn't hear went on...

"...and there are a whole lot of rivers I'd rather people didn't go fishing in for stiffs."

Fishy business forever...

Wyoming fish might be perfectly safe.

Recall that Cheney hurridly changed his primary residence from Texas to Wyoming in order to run for Vice President, since Bush is from Texas and there is a constitutional requirement.

But Texas fish probably need to worry about dynamite. Cheney calls it "enhanced fishing techniques."

Dick Cheney has spent a lot of time in Washington, and he's made a lot of money on dead bodies in far off countries.

If he were in the Private Sector, he would have been arrested, convicted, and sentenced to decades in jail for the things he's done. But he chose government, so he gets to spend his twilight years fishing on his private compounds, secure in his millions.

Maybe "justice" will come to him one day, but I doubt it. So all I can say is good riddance.

"I've got a lot of rivers to fish. So I don't think anybody will feel sorry for me. They shouldn't."

Um, can I have a show of hands from all those who have ever entertained the notion of feeling sorry for Dick Cheney?

- crickets -

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Me, I might feel sorry for him based on the special place he'll roast in when his Hereafter arrives, but given that he's earned it fair and square, I just don't.

Hell, he's still earning it now, by lying outright about his role in the disastrous Bush administration. It's a double CYA (both cheeks, I guess): 1) "I did not overstep the bounds of my job, honest I didn't," and 2) "I had nothing to do with those awful, short-sighted, Constitution-shredding, humanity-quashing decisions . . . I stood helplessly by while The Decider did all that."

Nobody's buying it, Dick. Go slither back to the hole from whence you came.

Now that all of Cheney's grand schemes have crashed and burned and taken the country down with them, he has the gall to tell us that it was BUSH calling the shots?

Coward.

"This whole notion that somehow I exceeded my authority here, was usurping his authority, is simply not true. It's an urban legend, never happened."

What you have to realize is that in Cheney's view of things, in which Bush was the Emperor of the Universe, with dictatorial powers to do whatever the heck he wanted, then Cheney's role, as despotic ruler belonging to no particular branch of government and only empowered to authorize leaks, wiretaps, and carry out secret political campaigns to reveal the identity of CIA agents who crossed him, was only a secondary role to Emperor Bush and Cheney didn't overstep his boundaries at all.

If you just listen to Fox like Cheney does it all makes sense, foolish Earthlings.

So Cheney goes off into the horizon, another urban legend, sort of like Bigfoot. Some day people will swear they actually have photos of him, but others will claim that they're clearly faked, nothing that ridiculous could have actually been elected and put in the White House.

Cheney..."retiring from public life". There are a lot of words one could use to describe Cheney's mendacious, cloistered tenure (a couple of my favorites -- mendacious, cloistered), but "public" ain't one of them.

I believe him. When has he ever lied to us?

he'd be busy preparing his defense on war crimes charges.

...as in slang for new inmate. For all his war crimes he needs to serve for.

I claim it was the Bush presidency but the Cheney administration. I've said it before and I will say it again. Bush could partially redeem himself in the eyes of many, including yours truly, if he would offer Cheney a conditional pardon: no worries for the rest of his life if he cooperates with investigation of his criminal behavior. I know. (1) It'll never happen. and (2) Probably but not certainly it is legally nonsensical. But let me daydream. Suppose this caught on. Then think of banners, editorial cartoons, MSNBCers (Keith Olberman and, especially, Rachel Maddow publicising it, then banners around town for the next twelve days. Fun with a capital F! (And add something else for David Addison!)

With all the damage cheney & bush have done to the environment, it will be a miracle if there are any fish to catch in the rivers he's going to fish.