Digby talks about WaPO Exposure of Cheney's Lies and Manipulation of Idiot Chimp!

[KoKo]

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by digby

Well, when I'm an ass, I'm an ass. Yesterday I complained that the mainstream media had dropped the ball with the Imperial Dick Cheney story, but I was wrong, at least with respect to one paper. Check out this Wapo piece today on the subject. They've clearly been working on a major Cheney piece for months and it's a goodie.

As we all suspected, he is the chief megalomaniacal psychopath:

SNIP..........(Commentary by Ashcroft in article where he argued with Addington/Cheney)


Ashcroft's replacement Alberto Gonzales is, as everyone has long suspected, nothing more than a glorified houseboy. But I was surprised to learn that he acted on behalf of Dick Cheney and not George W. Bush. Apparently, even Bush's long time loyalists treat him like a mentally disabled child:

SNIP.......

This is exactly the kind of manipulation that is made possible by a weak and stupid president. Reagan was not particularly bright, but he gathered people around him who were not insane, had known him forever and shared his goals. Bush is a child whose agenda was whatever the last person he spoke with told him it was.

I know that I sound like a character in an Oliver Stone movie, ("one pristine bullet? That dog don't hunt!" ) but I have never been sanguine about the fact that all the big money boyz and all the power brokers in the GOP traipsed down to Austin to meet that grinning moron and came away thinking he was the right choice to run the most powerful nation on earth. It makes far more sense to me that they wanted to install Cheney from the beginning (remember the energy task force?) and they needed an empty suit with a winning personality to actually run for the office. Maybe it really was a quiet coup, who knows?

Be sure to read the whole article. I just highlighted a few passages that I found interesting. There are many others. It seems the Bushie wall of silence has finally broken. Scooter should probably make a deal while it still means anything.

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[HereSince1628]

1. A Whitehouse lawyer with direct knowledge of Addington's activity...

Gee, I wonder what little Scooter in the OVP could that might be?

[Kagemusha]

2. Well, this is our cue - late as it is, let's just be glad the MSM is doing this

Gotta take what we can and treat it like an unexpected freebie. And then go out and kick more rear end.

[bleever]

3. I like her suggestion that Scooter

should make a deal while it still means anything, given the signs of the Bushie wall of silence having finally broken.

[rfranklin]

4. In the article: cheney watched WTC towers fall with no reaction...

while everyone else was worrying about casualties and first responders, Cheney was concerned with consolidating his power...almost as if the entire event was anticipated?