Kerfuffle

Marcy Wheeler calls a blowjob a blowjob on MSNBC. And she does so while making a pretty good point about why we need to investigate Cheney and the DOJ's facilitation of certain equally indelicate matters... like torture

This pretty much speaks for itself...

And the quick apologies at the end apparently speak for Marcie Wheeler, who had this (and more) to say on her blog afterwords...

At some point, though, we as a country have to be willing and able to weigh what the Village did in the late 90s against the massive illegality of the Bush White House and, finally, realize there are more important things than a blow job, and we need to take those more important things at least as seriously as that magic blow job that captivated the press for so long under Clinton. 

I don't know whether my efforts today helped or hurt those efforts. Next time I'll just repeat, endlessly, torture torture torture. It'll probably cause the same kind of outrage.

Offensive?  The phrase "blow job?"  Gimme a fuckin' break.  DOJ maneuvers leading to illegal torture... orchestrated by Darth Cheney in the shadows... now that's offensive.

Might the real issue with Dick Cheney's evilosity be that he is suffering from some kind of mental illness?

My partner is a psychiatrist, and therefore I feel like I have picked up enough here and there to be able to make the occasional diagnosis based on he-said/she-said media reports and stuff like this:

CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."

Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney "smells some blood in the water" on the issue of national security.

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Panetta said of Cheney's remarks: "It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that's dangerous politics."

Mr. Panetta is being kind when he calls this "dangerous politics."  I would diagnose this as an aberrant psychiatric condition I call "being a sick fuck who only cares about his own sorry evil ass."  That has to be in some medical book somewhere.

Dick Cheney reminds America that he is, in fact, a real asswipe

I recall not too long ago, people who said anything -- anything -- negative about President Bush (or any of his policies, pronouncements, signing statements etc.) were traitors, cowards, or terrorist-lovers.  That was back when the cowboy/idiot president was more or less a puppet with Dick Cheney pulling the strings from the secret, undisclosed, secure location.

Now that he's a "private citizen," Cheney is getting more airtime than that guy who won American Idol.  And he is using that time to go offensively on the offensive to rip on President Obama for trying to undo the colossal mess that he and W pooped onto America.  Today's snarl-fest at the American Enterprise Institute was typical [full text here].  I think Laurence O'Donnel put it best when he described the speech... "as sleazy a presentation from a vice president as we've had since Spiro Agnew. It was a complete abomination."  Ouch.  Of course, the truth hurts.  Cheney is a first-class asshole who is pretty much out to save his hide and perhaps that of a henchman or two. 

What an asshole. Unlike how he and his cronies blasted naysayers of the Bush/Cheney cabal, I appreciate his dissent .  Why?  Because he only reinforces how wrong, how arrogant, and how misguided the previous Republican administration really was.

Dick Cheney:  the new old face of the Republican Party.