Cheney’s ‘Tortured Logic’ and America’s Apathy

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Cheney’s ‘Tortured Logic’ and America’s Apathy

What is it going to take for Congress, the media and the American people to wise up and impeach Dick Cheney?

Obviously it isn’t enough that he lied us into an illegal, unjust and immoral war. It doesn’t matter that he ignored a Congressional subpoena and still refuses to release details of his energy task force that may have outlined the administration’s imperial oil-grabbing tactics pre-911. It makes no difference that the vice president ordered the outing of the undercover CIA operative in charge of finding Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” because her husband publicly refuted the administration’s falsehoods about said wmds.

The fact that he lead the military in its use of interrogation tactics that amount to torture (until Congress allowed the administration to change the definition of torture), is apparently irrelevant. No one seems to care that Cheney was in charge of war games on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 that may have slowed military and air traffic control response to plane hijackings. And shooting that guy in the face? Well, it could have happened to any experienced hunter shooting caged quails.

Now it is revealed the vice president hasn’t been complying with an executive order that requires executive branch employees to report on the nature of the classified documents they create. The VP justifies his noncompliance by claiming that his role as President of the Senate separates him from the executive branch. Who cares what the Constitution says, right?

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Detroiters: We must pressure Congressman John Conyers to place House Resolution 333, Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney, on the Judiciary Committee agenda. It wasn’t long ago that Conyers said, “I have a choice. I can either stand by and lead my constituents to believe I do not care that the president apparently no longer believes he is bound by any law or code of decency. Or I can act.”

John Conyers, Congress members and US citizens : How long will you stand idly by while this administration spits on the US Constitution and all that is supposed to make America great? Impeach Dick Cheney now.

Here's a handy compilation of the 10 dumbest things Dick Cheney has ever said.

Kill hope and you crush the impulse to act.

The public is not apathetic. The opposite in fact. The Democratic leadership are using (abusing) all the power at their command to keep impeachment outside the realm of possibility. Given the relentless efforts to crush the public's will to impeach, an amazing number are out there fighting for it. Even those who have been fooled into believing it can't/won't happen WANT it to happen. They just aren't saying anything. Why bother? "It can't/won't happen."

As long as we live in Bush World, everything the Democratic leadership does is sham. (with the exception of impeachment). The longer they keep playing their sham game, the more the public will become "apathetic" (i.e., be beaten into silence and cynicism).

Hitting the outlaws with their purse is useless because the outlaws have no qualms about raiding the treasury to do as they please ("to protect us").

Passing laws for the White House ignore or violate at whim is asinine. Even if the "decider duo" deign to execute a law, in Bush World, competent execution is impossible. Bush and Cheney have gutted every agency that actually serves the American people.

Why push through crappy watered down bills for the outlaws to screw with? What's the hurry? Since the establishment is so convinced the Dems are gonna win the White House, why not wait until they have? Then they could pass GOOD bills under an executive that will actually put them into EFFECT.

Unfortunately, the probability of winning decreases each week that passes without impeachment.

The "apathetic" public would "perk up" overnight if a real leader would stand up and voice their outrage and direct that outrage into MEANINGFUL action -- i.e., stopping the destroyers by impeaching and removing their power to destroy. Win or lose, that's a fight the American people can get their teeth into.