Liberals v. Dick Cheney (Or: They CAN Be Fooled Again)

May 22, 2009

Liberals are fooling themselves by being giddy over Dick Cheney’s recent media blitz. In case you aren’t following the lib-giddiness, it goes like this: “(Giggle, giggle) Ain’t it great that the old bear, Cheney, is the “new” face of the Republican Party? This only helps us!”

Right? Wrong.

Because the liberal’s great wet dream of a president, Obama, is doing more to appease the Dick Cheney followers of the world than he is to any leftist agenda.

Take, for example, Obama’s decision to backpedal on the release of the as-of-now unreleased Abu Ghraib photos. Obama listened to the Cheney-types and their fear mongering over what the released photos could give rise to (more terror! more fear!). He then listened to the ACLU-types and their arguments that full-disclosure and transparency on these matters was what the nation – and world – needed most. And, despite Obama’s election-season endorsement of the ACLU’s path on this matter, the President apparently saw the Cheney shadow looming over him and hid underneath it, declaring, just like Bush/Cheney, that secrecy was best.

But the liberals still giggle over Cheney’s appearances, pretending it helps them – ah, yet another excuse to sit on their hands. You are familiar with today’s liberal mantra, aren’t you? Yeah, the one that goes like this: “If you don’t have something nice to say about Obama, don’t say anything.” I guess these folks never read Thomas Paine. Or Lincoln. And nor, apparently, have they heard about the “squeaky wheel getting the grease.”

Because Cheney’s squeaking…and squeaking… and squeaking while the mainstream media laps it up and, as a result, puts him front and center on the U.S. political agenda as if the spewing and spouting is all coming from a sane man.

This is why impeachment mattered. It would have – and should have – put the Bush/Cheney team in full-defensive mode, fending off indictments and even jail time for the outrageous miscarriages of justice that flourished under their reign of errors.

And it’s also why Senator Patrick Leahy’s call for judicial investigations of the Bush/Cheney regime should be followed through on. But Leahy himself is backing down from his own idea, trading any real investigations or – better yet – subpoenas for a spate of meaningless huffing and puffing in the press about what he “might” do in some distant time. Oh yeah, that’ll scare ‘em.

But the Dems have taken a shameless pass on sending Bush, Cheney & Co. down the prosecutorial path that they belong on. So instead of facing a judge and the cameras outside a federal courtroom, Cheney gets to face the warm glow of an all-too-willing media as he continues to propagate his ideology of fear, hatred and raw injustice. And, worse, Obama is forced to respond to Cheney’s nonsense as if Cheney matters.

But Cheney does matter. Because the Dems have yet to find the guts necessary to defend the Constitution and the protocols of the Geneva Convention that were so flippantly trashed during the Bush/Cheney years.

In the meantime, liberals need to stop fooling themselves about Cheney’s media face time. It’s not helping them. Unless, of course, they think having Obama refuse to release the Abu Ghraib photos and asking for nearly $100 billion more to continue the Bush/Cheney wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as “victories.”

Yo liberals, start squeaking already. You sent Obama millions of dollars. You plastered your cars with his likeness. You believed. Now start making some demands. It’s called democracy, you know. Give it a try.

Posted by M. Colby | Filed Under blog

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3 Responses to “Liberals v. Dick Cheney (Or: They CAN Be Fooled Again)”

Jay Vos on May 23rd, 2009 5:14 am

What the all-too-lackadaisical media has done - by giving voice to Cheney - is turn this into a debate about torture “policy.” That’s criminal, because it’s really about a crime! Torture is illegal! But our Dear Leader, ex-Harvard constitutional law professor doesn’t say that. (And Bushama is still torturing as I write.) Relatedly, Broadsiders may be interested in David Swanson’s interview with The Real News Network.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=3756&updaterx=2009-05-22+10%3A41%3A25
jack on May 23rd, 2009 10:12 am

Obama has got to realize by now that his self-hugging army of feelgood milquetoast dems will follow him anywhere…why not put the screws to Bush/Cheney and commit them to the irrelevance that they duly deserve?
Answer: Because he’s a waivering, wishy-washy centrist wuss Dem…just like his army of supporters. Bushites need their Nuremburg, not to be treated like the embarrassing but tolerated blacksheep of politics.
Sure this is all a revelation to you. What you guys up to this weekend?
lovemei'maliberal on May 23rd, 2009 1:08 pm

Where is your verification for your outrageous claims that Obama is not the Jesus Christ of Democracy?! As a little Dem who voted for him, and as an even littler Dem who knows Deb Markowitz is the new Hillary Clinton, I resent the thread of terror–yes, terror!–in your assessment of our Party as merely an extension of that other Party. We are all Obamanists, dedicated to transcending the American psychosis of guilt about glut–’burp’–sorry, I just swallowed an organic Obamamelon whole. It came from China.

In the future, if you have an opinion about the Democratic Party, I suggest you present it in a more politically correct way, otherwise Obamanations will befall you. We are many, you are one.

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