The Negatives Of Blind Loyalty

If you've read my posts B4 you should know where I stand on the almost inevitable eventual resignation or firing of George Dubya Bush's 2nd hand-picked Attorney General (the horrible John Ashcroft was his first disastrous pick) and Bush loyalist Alberto Gonzalez. Gonzalez was a Bush family friend for years B4 he advocated such Pernicious Policies & Insidious Agendae as Extaordinary Renditions (outsourcing torture), the classification of suspected terorists as "Enemy Combatants" with zero rights, plus many of the more appalling aspects of the frankly unAmerican and unjust USA PATRIOT ACT, not to mention the latest 'fine mess' about possibly lying about the reasons for the firing of many U.S. Attorneys for political rather than performance-related reasons.
Loyalty is generally a good quality to have. However, blind loyalty is never a good thing when it ignores, condones or overlooks the immoral, amoral, illegal, dishonest, unethical or dubiously ethical activity of Dubya Bush, his cronies, his administration, his campaign committee, the backwards-thinking, ethically-challenged right-wing social conservatives, or the so-called 'pundit' modern-day Snake-Oil salesmen & women who dominate the airways on talk radio and on Fox News on Cable TV.

"Bleep The Veep"

Vice President Dick Cheney is arrogant, belligerant, conniving, deceptive... sneaky... and he absolutely ought to be impeached and incarcerated. Most, if not all of President George Dubya Bush's pernicious policies and insidious agendae were created on behalf of Cheney. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the odious USA PATRIOT ACT and the reprehensible and unAmerican concept of so-called 'extraordinary renditions' (outsourcing torture) were conceived and condoned out of Cheney's office. For the life of me, I can hardly believe why at this point George W. Bush isn't being impeached for his High Crimes and Misdemeanors. However, the wars going on and the succession of Cheney into Bush's role as alleged Leader Of The Free World would deter any Democrat from taking the steps to remove Bush from office B4 his 2nd term is expired. On the other hand, if Cheney were to be impeached and turned out of his office in well-deserved disgrace then Bush could be safely ousted as well, then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would succeed Bush and Cheney. Of course, with the undeclared war between Republicans and Democrats this will never happen, but I can dream dammit.
As far as I'm concerned, although Scooter Libby apparently deserved to be convicted of perjury or whatever he was convicted of, he was just a puppet and Cheney was the puppetmaster. It seems that Libby fell on his sword to protect his boss, as often seems to happen in politics. I've said my piece about Cheney for now, but I'm sure I'll have more to say about the varmint from Wyoming in the not too distant future.