Well, it seems as if teaming with George W. Bush to wreck our countries economy, esteem, and morale into the ditch wasn't enough for "Shotgun" Cheney. When he was not shooting old guys in the face, our former Vice-President enjoyed various other activities which would land the common person, like all of us in the soon-to-be defunct Guantanomo Bay prison. You know, things like lying about illegal wars, and of course outing undercover CIA hotties whose husbands happen to expose your lies.
Of course, Shotgun had not the courage to stand up and take the credit for his crime, along with his neo-facist buddy Karl Rove, he instead marched his chief of staff, Scooter Libby out as a sacrificial lamb for the masses. You see, he thought that his good buddy in crime George W. Bush would bail Scooter out at the end of his term with the most-coveted pardon.
However, despite already commuting the sentence of Libby, it seems for the first time in his public life former President Gump refused to "play-ball" with his neo-con, neo-facist handlers. He did not pardon Scooter Libby. This led to Shotgun blowing a gasket somewhere besides the United States Congress, in the press:
He did just that the day after becoming a private citizen. In an interview with The Weekly Standard, Cheney heaped praise on Libby and denounced his conviction. "He was the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice, and I strongly believe that he deserved a presidential pardon," Cheney said. "Obviously, I disagree with President Bush's decision."
The vehemence of Cheney's last-minute onslaught has struck some Bush loyalists as excessive. "At some point you have to accept the decision of the guy who appointed you," one of them said after learning the details. "I think Cheney was over the top."
Of course in the neo-facist mindframe of men like Shotgun Cheney, it is perfectly OK to risk the life of an undercover CIA operative to get revenge on her husband, a treasonable offense, and to ignore the will of a jury that weighed the evidence and came down with a verdict. Even his puppet drew the line there:
In July 2007, at Cheney's urging, Bush commuted Libby's 30-month prison sentence. But he also said, "I respect the jury's verdict" and noted that his decision "leaves in place a harsh punishment" for the man often described as "Cheney's Cheney." Libby was fined $250,000, and as a convicted felon, he has been disbarred from practicing law and cannot vote.
This remarkably laughable quote from a Cheney apologist sums up nicely the cowardly, brownosing mentality of the neo-facist wing of the neo-cons:
A Cheney ally disagreed. "He had every right to push it as hard as he wanted," he argued. "Cheney places great store in loyalty and thinks Scooter got a raw deal."
If Shotgun feels so badly about the fate of a man he is "loyal" to then why doesn't Cheney come out and tell the American people the truth?? That he and Karl Rove master-minded the outing of Valerie Plame as revenge on her husband for debunking their "Yellow-cake" myth dreamed up to march us into an illegal war our great-granchildren will be paying for long after we are gone.
Then he can lobby for his own pardon, and face the music for his crimes like a man.
It is a crying shame but Cheney still believes that he is Vice President, just as Mitch McConnell belives that he is a Seantor with balls who loves the United States. Clearly both of these men need serious help.
Posted by: Mountain Man | February 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM
If we wait for "Shot Gun Cheney" to admit to what he has done, it will never happen.
This is why I believe we need to keep pushing Barack Obama to bring Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Rove and the rest of these Neo Con crooks to justice.
Posted by: Jim Pence | February 18, 2009 at 11:19 AM
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/176478/%22Worst-Is-Yet-to-Come%22-Americans'-Standard-of-Living-Permanently-Changed?tickers=WMT,WFMI,FDO,%5EGSPC,%5EDJI,RTH
The worst is yet to come. See the link above. George Bush put us here and now he needs to go to jail for what he has done. Now that George Bush is no longer President he CAN and should go to jail.
Posted by: Mountiam Man | February 18, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Jim and Mountain Man, I couldn't agree more with both of you.
Posted by: Richard Dillon | February 18, 2009 at 07:23 PM