Know Your Enemy!

I tried. I really did. I was conceptualizing a post on “The Terrorizers” (still coming by the way) and have been working on what will be a semi-regular feature: “THIS t**d…“, but I just can’t put off writing about Richard Cheney. Now, it’s certainly not surprising (nor does it particularly bother me) that when George Bush asked Big Dick to identify the best candidate for VP…Big Dick put himself at the top of the list. That’s just plain old-fashioned greed and power hunger. I mean, it’s gotta be tough to resist the temptation to enrich yourself and your friends obscenely at the expense of the American people…why even try? I do have a couple of personal connections to Big Dick: I attended the same high school, and my Dad was acquainted with him from his days in the House of Representatives. I never understood why, but my father always seemed proud of his acquaintance with Big Dick and (until we stopped discussing politics) seemed happy that Bush and Cheney were President.

But let’s run through Big Dick’s crimes against the State, and by extension against the American people.

• His role in the public disclosure of the identity of a covert U.S. intelligence agent. (If he wasn’t actually complicit, his continued silence and refusal to condemn this action indicates tacit approval. This alone would make him our Enemy.)
• His work to fabricate a case for unilaterally invading another country and accompanying deception of the American people. (Since the invasion of Iraq, his activities as a Terrorizer alone would earn him Enemy status.)
• His corruption of the Department of Justice (ably assisted by Co-President Bush, Freddo Gonzalez, and a host of others). Big Dick’s has work to turn the organization that we all (Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Anarchists, Atheists, Wiccans, Llama Owners) have been able to sorta rely on to (mostly) enforce the law kinda impartially, into a politically corrupted enforcement arm for the party running the executive branch….definitely earns him Enemy status.

All you fanatical Republicans out there: Do you really think that now that Bush and Cheney have blazed the way, that some future Democratic administration won’t take advantage of the “Unitary Executive” concept, executive privilege, signing statements, and, oh yeah, the fact that Hillary/Dennis/Obama/Whoever will be a “Wartime President” to run roughshod over America and impose their particular vision on us all? Keep dreaming.

Am I foolish enough to believe that our generally corrupt/incompetent Congress will actually impeach Big Dick? Hell no! All they have to do is to wait another 13 months and not only will Big Dick be out of their hair but then it’ll really be their turn at the trough. They’ll be able to do a better job of looting the Treasury to enrich themselves and their friends. Oh yeah, and also take us farther down the road toward their version of a police state.

Thanks Big Dick!