You speak for me, Charles Pierce.

He should taste what he foisted upon others. Taste of his own medicine. See how he likes it.

This description alone - is a Thing of Great Beauty:

"Cheney's cowardice and evil are implacable forces of nature. This is a guy who had other priorities, and took five deferments rather than go to an actual war. This is a guy who shot his best friend in the face, and who went for the Scotch bottle before he went for the cops. This is a guy who projected his own cowardice onto the country he served, assuming it was as big a coward as he has been his entire public life, and sent his country down the road into serious war crimes because he got scared witless on September 11, 2001. I have more respect for a janitor who went back to work in the Empire State Building on September 12 of that year than I do for the entire sorry public career of this obvious beast of human, running now on a borrowed heart without the inconvenient presence of a soul."

And I doubly agree with Charles Pierce on another bit from here. "...without the inconvenient presence of a soul." Indeed. I am not convinced that cheney has a soul. Seriously, I'm not convinced. If he really had one, I would expect him to try to make sure his behavior toward others would keep it from being damned to Hell. And what clinches this, for me, is that he's proud of it. Proud of it!!! Not one bit regretful! And VERY willing to do it again.

Welcome to DU, RunInCircles!

Good to have you with us! Most of 'em are like him. Remember when they were openly scoffing at the whole concept of empathy? Hideous excuses for human beings.

DAYUM! I LOVE John Fugelsang!

Except, he's no "Dick Of The Moment." Of the MOMENT? Hardly. He's "Dick Of All Eternity"!!!!!

"Dick Of The Moment" damns him with faint praise. He's a DICK - FOREVER, as far as I'm concerned. An unrepentant Dick Forever. Which is even more hideous.

They just played the clip on MSNBC. "WE captured bin Laden."

WHEN did YOU capture bin Laden, you fucking WAR CRIMINAL????

YOU captured bin Laden? I'm sorry - you're WRONG. WRONG AGAIN. Barack Obama got him. A few years into HIS OWN first term, okay? HE did it. You had NOTHING to do with it. You actually had a great shot at it early-on, and YOU let him get away. (Tora Bora, anyone?) Because YOU guys wanted to divert to Iraq. You pretty much had him. And you let him get away - because, once again, just the same as when you got the call to serve your country during Vietnam, and you took five - FIVE - deferments. YOU had "OTHER priorities."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/15/how-bin-laden-escaped-in-2001-the-lessons-of-tora-bora.html

Anybody remember Mancow? One of those radio loudmouths who was all hot-headed

with that "USA! USA! USA!" mentality?

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/tony-norman/2009/05/26/Mancow-knows-Waterboarding-is-torture/stories/200905260184

From the article:

Last Friday, Mancow did what higher profile skeptics of the charge that the Bush administration engaged in torture don't have the courage to do. Where Fox News host Sean Hannity last month glibly agreed to be waterboarded ("I'll do it for charity&quot , Mancow actually underwent the procedure during the live broadcast of his popular morning show.

(snip)

Still, there was an undeniable logic to the stunt. Being waterboarded would be a ratings bonanza for "Mancow's Morning Madhouse." Once the footage of a torture skeptic "successfully" defying the critics of waterboarding made the rounds, it would elevate Mancow from the "D-list" of Howard Stern imitators to the first tier of conservative yakkers like Rush, Beck, Hannity and Michael Savage. A little water on the face could potentially yield big dividends.

But the real world closed in quickly once Mancow's legs were elevated, his feet tied and a towel pressed over his face. It was telling that he was already on the verge of freaking out even before a single drop was administered. Don't be surprised if some, including fraus on the right like Ann Coulter, question whether Mancow was brave enough to do it in the first place. Everyone agrees Mancow has more guts and conviction than Sean Hannity, though.

Alas, the hoped-for propaganda minute did not happen. Six seconds into the procedure, Mancow emerged gasping and spitting water. Instead of brave forbearance, Mancow Muller had the look of a man who had seen a terrible light.

"It was way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke," a badly shaken Mancow said. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back. ... It was instantaneous ... and I don't want to say this: absolutely torture."

He lasted SIX seconds. With all his swagger and bravado and LOUDLY obnoxious in-yer-face pseudo-patriotism. He was almost shitting his pants before they even got started on him. I LOVE this part: "It was telling that he was already on the verge of freaking out even before a single drop was administered."

And to this day, has Mr. Red-White-&-Blue Bravado himself made good on his chest-thumping? Has that-guy-whose-name-rhymes-with-VANITY made good on his assertion that he, too, would undergo water boarding to prove it was a whole lotta nothing? He's nothing but a first-class chicken-shit. Talks a good game. Then folds like a piece of paper! Don't ever join the CIA, sean. You'll be giving up state secrets at the drop of a hankie.

Welcome to DU, American_74911003!

Glad you're here! I think we all would, my friend. And YES - WE can keep that alive by continuing to voice outrage about it. DO NOT let this momentum fizzle out!!! And if it does, it's OUR fault. If it does, that means we've allowed it, and we're okay with it, and it thus becomes US, then, too.

As my husband said this morning, unprompted, "America. We're not who we thought we were."

Considering how close they were, I'd give this particular speaker a lot of credibility.

If ANYONE would know, ol' kkkarl would. He WAS, after all, dubya's beloved pet Turdblossom.

Why not? I don't know why anyone does NOT suspect as much!

This was a guy who tortured frogs when he was a kid, as I've read. Threw them up in the air with firecrackers in their mouths to watch 'em blow up. And cackled like a hen at the whole hilariousness of it all. Many studies show that kids who mistreat animals or pets or other smaller life forms are likely to grow up to be demonstrably sadistic - abusers and batterers - with a very basic disrespect for life and for others. In his case, he got to sit at the top of the ziggurat and order it done to others. WITH HIS PROUD AND EAGER APPROVAL. Stood it on a Bible and dressed it up in red-white-and-blue while he was at it, to give it some goooooo-oooood ol' "all-American" "Christian" cover, too.

Why yes! And he's the same purportedly well-educated Chief Justice who can't even get the

Presidential Oath of Office straight. And that's with two months ADVANCED NOTICED and plenty of time to rehearse and memorize a few lines, or AT THE VERY LEAST get it all written down on a couple of pocket cue cards. PLENTY of time.

john roberts formally certified himself as a fucking IDIOT that day. In front of a few million people out there in the cold on that January Washington DC day, and maybe a billion-or-so more people, broadcast around the world, too. Whatever credibility he might have had - for me, that moment just hosed the last of it down the drain.

Just figure it this way: he was nominated by an idiot. So why shouldn't he be one, too?