Rolling Stone: How Dick Cheney is Destroying the Planet

By: Lowell
Published On: 6/23/2007 8:10:22 AM

This is horrifying.  After reading this Rolling Stone article, there is no doubt that Dick Cheney should be impeached, convicted, and jailed.  Whoops, I forgot, Cheney's not part of the Executive Branch or the Legislative Branch. In fact, Dick Cheney apparently lives in his own parallel universe, so I guess he can't be impeached.  I wonder if they have Hell in that parallel universe, because if so, Cheney deserves a one-way ticket there.  Hyperbole?  Yes, the word "evil" is tossed around too lightly, but Dick Cheney definitely qualifies.  Not to mention profoundly unAmerican, inhuman, immoral, unethical, corrupt, sadistic, unaccountable, ruthless and crazy.  Besides that, he's great!!!

Comments



well (leftofcenter - 6/23/2007 8:34:48 AM)
I suspect, once again, Congress will cave on this and not find him in contempt. And he'll just go on his merry way, destroying our country day by day. And Congress wonders why their approval ratings are at about 14%? PUH LEEZ. And of course we see Gonzales is still employed by us. 1-20-09 can't come soon enough when we can finally run these criminals out of DC. I can't wait for that day of celebration.


I can't wait for 1/20/09 either, but... (Lowell - 6/23/2007 8:39:45 AM)
...that doesn't deal with the fact that we've had an Administration which for 6 1/2 years has flagrantly violated the law, issued "signing statements" declaring that they'll do whatever the hell they want to do regardless of the will of Congress (and the constitution), politicized science, lied to take the country to war, outed a covert CIA agent (I believe that's known as "treason"), "broken" our military, made our country much MORE vulnerable to terrorism, failed to catch Bin Laden, let the Middle East slip into utter chaos, taken no action on the greatest threat our planet faces, had people tortured (!!!), violated habeus corpus and treaties governing the way prisoners of war are treated, etc., etc.  And the punishment for all this will be...a pleasant, taxpayer-funded retirement?  Cushy consulting deals with Bechtel, Halliburton, ExxonMobil, etc?  Where's the justice here?!?  Yes, I'm furious.


They (leftofcenter - 6/23/2007 9:08:54 AM)
will never pay for everything they have done to this country. The political will isn't there (or big enough majorities in Congress). I predict the criminals will go off to wingnut think tanks and cook up some more wars, try to figure out how they can get back in power, steal some more elections.

I'm beyond furious. And I'm more furious at the Americans who put these criminals in office and continue to love George Bush. I can't even deal with with those morons anymore.



Unfortunately you're right.... (Dianne - 6/24/2007 10:04:01 PM)
They'll never pay for the evil and destruction that they have laid on this country.  I'm beyond furious too at the idiots and numbskulls who support Bush.

I'm still meeting people who absolutely believe that Iraq was the cause of 9/11!  I even met someone recently who didn't know that Bush was a "recovering" alcoholic!!!!  One thing that I've noticed is that many local papers around the country are strictly that...local....with no national news. 



Utter frustration (Teddy - 6/23/2007 10:29:25 AM)
is the lot of every thinking American (or even human being on the planet) as we contemplate Lowell's list, which hardly begins to cover the offenses. Why can't we just get rid of these guys or, if that can't be done, at least tie their hands, rein them in for the remainder of their term? But no, everyone in seemingly nods long, giving them credence and respect.

And meanwhile the average citizen nods through an endless nomination campaign for Bush's supposed replaceent. The system is not working, certainly not working as originally planned.  While a parliamentary system might work as a replacement, with sudden, short, decisive elections when leadership was clearly off the track, I am not sure it would work in a continental nation-state with the size and diversity of the US. But something has to be done.



count down (Adam Malle - 6/23/2007 1:46:04 PM)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


That's 576 days too long! (Lowell - 6/23/2007 2:27:14 PM)
n/t


damn (leftofcenter - 6/23/2007 4:57:11 PM)
576 days sounds alot longer than a year and a half.
We're doomed.


My favorite part of the Rolling Stone article... (Kindler - 6/23/2007 9:41:52 PM)
...is when Christine Todd Whitman asks Bush about CEQ (the Council on Environmental Quality, the president's environmental advisory staff) and he says "What's CEQ?"

I mean, does the guy have even the slightest clue about what the government he allegedly heads is up to?  Or is he just the dummy sitting on you-know-who's lap?