Dick Cheney refuses to be quiet...

...and it's good for the country if he doesn't...

It's becoming common knowledge that liberals don't like to have their ideas or motives questioned. They are the all knowledgeable ones and the rest of us are merely flunkies whom they believe are easily controlled. It's no wonder they are always apopletic about something. People are becoming wise to their shenanigans and they don't like it one bit. They believed it was patriotic to question the motives of former President Bush and Vice President Cheney, but if someone questions Obama's coming socialism, the weight of the Ohio state government comes down on them. Some, who always show how selective their outrage is, are dumbfounded about US History and claim that members of an immediate predecessor's administration don't criticize their successor. Now, I know that I am new to this whole political blogging thing, but where exactly was Meghan McCain, say, five to nine years ago when former Vice President Al Gore was blowing a gasket about Bush/Cheney's foreign policy? Or former President Clinton hiding his failures by lambasting his successor...

Liberals see Cheney's opinion that the GOP needs to align more with Rush Limbaugh than Colin Powell as him preferring an oxycontin addict to a war hero, which, as Allahpundit mentions, didn't occur to them in last year's presidential election. When the Democrats suffered losses in the Elections of 2002 and 2004, they did not seek to moderate their platforms, they made them more liberal...catering some of the platform to the fringe left. The idea that Meghan McCain, Colin Powell, who endorsed Obama over the nominee his alleged party named, and Arlen Specter believe that the GOP needs to reinvent itself, is the most fucked up idea I've heard since Miss Cleo predicted me winning the lottery five years ago. I do not disagree that the GOP needs to reinvent itself to return to its conservative principles, but it does not need to continue in its current meely-mouthed state.

One part of me believes that it's not necessarily criticism of Obama's moves, rather the man behind one of the damning critiques of his policies. Liberals believe that former Vice President Cheney shouldn't be allowed to speak because he "authorized torture" against terror suspects, even though they can't come to a consensus on what the definition of "torture" is. They continue peddling the lie that Bush's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) authorized torture, when the only thing they did was make certain that the methods they used to interrogate were within established law. San Fran Nan and other Democrats know this, but their asses are on the line and they're playing ignorant. I wonder if John Amato never asks why Pelosi is lying about not knowing about enhanced interrogation methods.

Chaka Khan had a song titled, Whatcha gonna do for me, and the final line in the chorus says "...when the chips are down." That applies here. Colin Powell, who served this country well as the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, slammed the GOP for not moderating, and in the end, supported the candidate of the opposing party. Rush Limbaugh, who like the good doctah, doesn't like McCain politically, but supported him because he was a better alternative to Obamessiah. There is plenty of criticism to go around about the GOP, but the line is drawn when a critic decides to bat for the other team...

And NOW for something COMPLETELY different...

I like Wanda Sykes. To me, she's a very great comedian, though I'm not sure if she came out last year as a lesbian or not. With that said, her comparison of Rush Limbaugh to the 20th hijacker was stupid. Her jokes about Governor Palin...shameful. The lack of goofs on President Obama...already known. Sykes is a comedienne, who seeks gaining attention, but the obscenity occurred when President Obama, who himself has used Limbaugh's name to get what he wants, laughed at the comparisons Sykes made. Kos, and you know how I feel about him, believes that the media acted the same way at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner as they have in the past...I guess he forgot about Stephen Colbert's performance in 2006. Something tells me that Obambi won't have to worry about something like that.

Have a great day...