It's late, I'm sad, I make weird leaps in my mind -but one question keeps rising up

[Mira]

Where the fuck IS Dick Cheney?

For 36 days the SOB has acted like he's dead. Like his vocal cords have been cut. Like he no longer is the one who knows how this country should be led, how oil companies deserve special considerations, and why he suddenly can't give solid input in how President Obama needs to handle problems.

Looks like the fair haired devil of a spawn is also missing. No little lectures dispensing wisdom about how we can reduce government and let the corporations gain more traction in running the country.

In the absence of those two sad creatures who are finally proving they are clueless by being voiceless,
I am sadly reminded of a segment Rachel did tonight with Richard Engel, the reporter with huge guts.

He went into Mogadishu / Somalia.
He reported with visuals about what is absolutely the most dangerous city on earth.

The reason for it being the most dangerous, and terror will strike your heart if you see the footage on a u-tube when someone posts it, is because it has had no government for close to two years now. None. I think I'm right on the time frame.
When there is a fire, there is no one to call. When there is a wreck, deal with it.
When you want to find some shelter, crawl under a rock in one of the fallen down buildings, make it yours, nobody cares or can stop you.

(Maybe you can take Grover Norquist with you and if there is a toilet big enough that works, flush him down.)

Enough of my rant, I'm making a strange leap from the oil gusher to Cheney, to his witch of a daughter, to them advocating small, tiny government, to what I saw tonight about a place where it really was flushed down the toilet.

Maybe tomorrow I can find something to lift my gloom over the state our country is in, our planet is in, and let's not forget our spirits, we must find reasons to make them soar.

First by plugging the leak.
The other things can wait.

[JeffersonChick]

1. Funny, I've noticed the same thing

Among my conservative family members. Not a single one of them has even once mentioned the oil spill. Probably because they can't bear to watch the news and face the fact that they might have been wrong all this time.

Amazing how such loud mouths suddenly have nothing to say.

[Mira]

2. Welcome to DU - and thanks for sharing your observation.

There are lots of reasons people on any side of the fence are not talking about it much.

I for one can only say that it is so huge I have nothing to contribute until the leak is stopped.
That who is at fault, how to punish, what to do in the future, all pale when it comes to the highest priority:

"Stop the leak, our planet is bleeding, and I simply can't think of the animals without breaking into the saddest tears of desperation".

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Because They're At The Huge Victory Party

They've convinced the Democrats to buy into every single principle BushCo fought for.

A mighty, mighty victory!

[Mira]

5. They have not convinced this Democrat.

The victory will be the plugging of he leak. I don't care where that feat will come from, I just care that the whole world is invited to respond with knowledge or ideas.

I very much care about what will happen to BP, to drilling, to safety regulations, and to all the crappy self serving and greedy planet killing actions that are (were) in progress once that plugging of the leak is done.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. What About All Of Cheney's Other Policies?

Escalating war, warrantless wiretapping, taxpayer cash for banker bonuses, secret prisons, denial of habeas corpus,... all proudly embraced by the Democratic leadership.

[Mira]

11. Right now they are trumped by his secret meetings with the oil companies.

Right now, we got to plug a leak. That is what is first.

[sabrina 1]

12. Don't forget torure ~ he is for torture!

There have been some very evil people right here in the U.S. working secretly to promote everything that we are now seeing come to a head.

He's missing because he is a coward, always was and always will be. But once Obama decided that we 'had to look forward' that there would be no accountability for war criminals, they were emboldened.

Maybe there is a superior being somewhere who finally had enough. And now we are looking at a disaster that they made and they cannot defend.

I just wish the Democrat we helped win had not joined them just 18 days before this tragedy unfolded. When he did that, he lost the moral authority, the opportunity to point out how evil they were. Because when I try to do that now with my rightwing adversaries, they remind me that it was Obama, not Bush, who lifted the ban on offshore drilling.

[jberryhill]

4. I guess I just don't miss him as much as some around these parts /nt

[givemebackmycountry]

6. The Big Dick was speaking at some Nazi-Con 2010 rally last week...

And his demon seed was doing the same as well.
They are around, and just because we don't see them on CNN or Faux or MSNBC don't mean squat.
They are always around.
Constantly polluting our environment.

[Mira]

8. W E L L

that is illuminating.
The fact that we don't see them on the tube means they are temporarily without power.

May God allow that to continue without further damage to our planet and spirits.

[Jack Sprat]

7. Like the cat who swallowed the canary.

He's probably burping feathers.

[Mira]

9. Good analogy

but I'd rather think of him as the canary I'm carrying into the coal mine.
Then I watch him croak from he fumes, and save myself.

In this case, could he be the pelican whose wings are coated with oil........

[Duer 157099]

13. Well you know, when the stopper is out of the hole

then they become mortal and so must avoid all human contact for fear someone will dispatch them.

Once the hole is plugged back up, it will be safe for them to come back out.

[tavalon]

14. I feel safer when I know where he is and what he's doing

He's a dangerous potential terrorist (I put the potential there to avoid a knock on my door). Until he resurfaces, I'm going to feel a little nervous.