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The Motivation behind the “Listen to Cheney Tour”

As Dick Cheney emerged from his cave in 2009 and began to overshare with the media about his approval of the Bush/Cheney Administration’s torture policy, I began to wonder what his motivation could possibly be. It’s certainly not what his lawyers would want him to do. It’s clear that the former vice-president is doing nothing to improve the current Republican situation: Everyone hates this guy (save the few folks on the far right who love Limbaugh and believe the earth is a mere 3,000 years old). So what’s the rationale?

In considering it, I think Cheney has one primary goal: Cheney wants the inevitable torture prosecutions to appear politically motivated. Right now, basically every day, Cheney is out in the press picking a fight with the Obama administration. He’s goading them into a fight. He’s kicking dirt on their shoes. Calling them ugly. Claiming the administration’s policies are hurting our security. He’s like a baseball manager coming up face to face with the umpire just begging to be thrown out of the game. He’s figuring the fans will interpret more anger and more hopping around angry as some sort of yardstick to help determine whether he’s right: they’ll believe that the more he argues the more likely the umpire is wrong.

And when the Cheney goes too far and the umpire has enough and tosses him out, perhaps people will only remember the comic display he’s putting on and not the fact that 3,000 Americans died on 9/11 on their watch. And thousands more died in their Iraq boondoggle. And Al-Qaeda is still a threat to the U.S. after all they did.

My personal belief is that given the evidence of the law being broken that has already been released, the Justice department must appoint a Special Prosecutor and be done with it. I think once those wheels are in motion, you’re not going to hear anything from the lawyered-up Cheney, Yoo, Bibey or the others in the Torture Cabal.

And Congress should pass on holding hearings as they can’t help themselves when they get in front of the camera. The idea of letting the idiots in Congress grandstand and pretend to police this issue after they basically rolled over for years is pathetic.

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Attention PA and OH Voters: Don’t Be Snowed on Coal Smear

This weekend, the trolls at Fox News, Drudge and Newsbusters created a bogus story about the Coal industry and here’s the facts about that “hidden” tape. Watch this:

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Will Ferrell and Tina Fey Roast McCain Palin on SNL

Sublime.

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It’s over. McCain lost today.

If you watched the debate, it seems to me that the race is over. McCain has lost.

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September 8th Was a Bad Day for McCain’s Campaign

Looks like something really bad happened to McCain’s campaign around September 8th: Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over that day and according to Pollster.com, it was all downhill from there.

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Join the Fight Against California Proposition 8

With the polls swinging towards the Democrats in the national elections, you’d think that California’s Proposition 8 to amend California’s Constitution to specifically eliminate equal protection rights for gays and lesbians in California would be going down in crashing and burning. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Millions of dollars have been poured into the Pro-Prop 8 efforts here in California in an effort to get this measure passed.

If you believe in equal rights and that all loving couples should have the right to marry and enjoy the benefits and challenges that such a union offers, please consider donating to the No On 8 campaign. The right-wing has chosen to make California a battleground for the nation on this issue and we cannot let such intolerance be advanced in the name of fear.

As the Santa Cruz Sentinal puts it in their editorial against Proposition 8:

It’s not about moral teaching. It’s about equal treatment for all people under the laws of our state.

Just to give you a sense of the scare tactics these folks are using, the subheading on their web site is:

Restoring Marriage and Protecting California Children

Oh, please… I hope that none of the children they’re supposedly protecting are actually gay or lesbian. Imagine having to have this conversation with your child:

“Sorry, Son, a long time ago I was scared of people who were gay so I voted to eliminate your rights so it would be impossible for you to live a life like the one your mother and I enjoy.

I believed that men and women chose to be gay so they could enjoy being beaten, mocked, marginalized and discriminated against. Your choice to get married would have no effect on me or our lives, but I was scared of people like you. Sorry about that.”

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