The Arrogance of Dick Cheney

NeoCon arrogance knows no bounds. Their erroneous perception that they are always right and everyone else is always wrong has never shone more brightly than this past weekend when Cheney consented to a marshmallow interview with CNN’s John King. I guess Rush Tub-A-Lard was taking the weekend off so Cheney stepped in to be temporary leader of the clueless republicans for a couple of days.

Speaking of the Tub-A-Lard, that brings us to our first point: Cheney’s endorsement of Rush as the defacto party leader. To show you how discredited the Gang That Couldn’t Govern Straight was when they left the White House, they have allowed an unelected but popular windbag assume the mantle of party leader, a mantle that he certainly can wear since it has become clear that the moral fiber which the republicans once stood by is in shreds and tatters. Only a thrice divorced, pill pushing drug addict is good enough to command respect in their regional rump party. Amazing. Cheney says he loves Rush. Depravity loves company, I guess. Only Cheney would say that someone who spreads the NeoCon lies like Rush does is doing “good work.”

The next big splash came with Cheney’s denial that the economic crisis was global in nature and that their incompetence did not cause it. Well, he got the global part right but it’s only global because the United States is the sole remaining superpower and our economic power reaches worldwide. The Brits used to boast that the sun never set upon the British Empire. The same can be said for the American economic empire. Everything we do touches countries all around the world. Cheney acts as if the global market caused the current crisis when everyone but the NeoCon faithful knows the truth: free market-deregulating-greedy motherfuckers did this to us while the Bush-Cheney cabal sat idly by.

The failed NeoCon concept that the market will correct itself is what caused this crisis. A lack of regulation in a financial market that allowed bad debt to be bundled and sold like pigs or cows caused this shithole we are in. Greedy sonsabitches never stop until told to stop and that was the case here. Adults got elected last November and put a stop to the insanity that the Chimpster and his minions allowed to fester and burst. Blaming the rest of the world for a problem that we caused is the height of arrogance and something we totally expect from NeoCons like Cheney.

What would a NeoCon interview be without some fear mongering? It would be a failure so Cheney threw some of that in as well. His claim that President Obama has made America less safe when it was Cheney’s administration that allowed the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history to occur is the absolute height of NeoCon arrogance. Placing detainees in Gitmo only furthered the resolve of terrorist recruiters and did nothing to insure the safety of America. Cheney can repeat the lies about making America safer all he wants but they are still lies. Most of the recommendations from the 9-11 Commission are still not in place years after they should have been. President Obama has changed the nature of our nation’s defense and that is what is pissing Cheney off. Gone are the torture policies, the unlimited detention, the secret prisons, and all of the other illegal apparatus that the Bushbots put into place after 9-11 and Cheney just hates that all his work is coming undone.

I just have a few questions about this episode. Does Cheney have any inside information that gives his assertions about our security any credibility or is he just talking out of his ass as usual? Where was John King’s head during this rant? Why didn’t he push Cheney on any of his obviously wrong claims? How much in awe was he of Cheney that he found this marshmallow interviewing technique to be acceptable for CNN? I can understand it if it was one of the goons at Fox doing this but has CNN slipped this far that they found this interview up to their standards?

Hmmmmm.

links: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/15/cheney-shrugs-at-economic_n_175055.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/15/cheney-on-limbaugh-i-love_n_175077.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/15/cheney-obama-has-raised-t_n_175053.html

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Posted in Politics
Tags: Bushbots, clueless republicans, Dick Cheney, failed NeoCon policies, lying NeoCons, NeoCon arrogance, NeoCon country destroyers, NeoCon liars, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh