Hello? Sunset of his vice presidency? Marshall Law is around the corner! Libby's sentence just got commuted. It's still "business-as-usual" with these people.

With all that trouble to lie to go to war, do you actually think they're going to relenquish power? If you believe that, I'd like to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn.

Cheney's getting a pace-maker. Could this mean that he needs "insurance" so he can stay in power for an unlimited time? It's all dirty and psychopathic.

Read my blogspot http://www.hiddenmurder.blogspot.com and see what's next...

iris, and evelyn and kem,
yes, i think the possible denounciations of this administration's malfeasances should be centralized, perhaps at a civic action organization based in washington or elsewhere, or even commondreams itself. i will write a note to the latter, see what they suggest. thanks,
eduardo

Eduardo V: Excellent suggestion. Were you saying replies could be centralized?

Thanks.

Hi Easy Flyer, I have a very open mind about UFOs, I just believe a majority of people have good reason to doubt and it may cause some to disregard Dr. Moret on any issue.

Have you ever read the UFO account that President Carter wrote on the sighting he witnessed, along with a group of about ten other dignitaries? Pretty amazing. The one he observed for several minutes, was a very large, cigar shaped "mother ship". UfO sightngs are quite common near areas where atomic weapons are stored and near missle silos, etc.

Someone, or perhap many may have reported a UFO near the Twin Towers the day they were destroyed, I never heard of it though. If true, they may have just come to observe.
If people do come to Earth from other worlds, I'm sure they would be most interested in what we do and what we are doing to this planet. I Doubt if they would wish to breath our air. I don't wish to anymore. But___ I do.

Easy Flyer. Thank you, I appreciate your sending me the info. I have a little problem with Dr.Moret now, after learning she supported the theory that UFOs were involved in 9-11; however, there are many renowned scientists who also have spoken out about the dangers of depleted uranium, and I have no problem with Moret's opinions on that issue.

I'm afraid her support of the UFO issue harms her credability, regardless of any UFO possibility. Normally, people just do not really believe in UFOs unless they have seen one up close.

Great comments on the DickHead article...I've highlighted a few and sent it on to some friends who are part of the amazing 20-25% who still approve of Chimpy, Snarly, and this sorry ass Congress....that, to me, is the scary part.

claudius - I don't think declaring war on Mexico to deport the illegal aliens is a likely scenario (and I'll believe with Cheney, all things evil are possible) because Cheney doesn't want to get rid of the Mexicans. His corporate fascism ilk needs the cheap labor and shadow economy to help keep the wheels of their corporate machine greased. Would Dick let W support "amnesty" if he wanted the illegals gone? Of course not. It's the xenophobic right that wants the illegals gone. Cheney doesn't need xenophobia - the only thing that matters to him is enduring power for his warped ideals. The whole irony of the immigration bill defeat is that W's stand on amnesty, which is maybe the only humane idea he's supported in his life, is ultimately what scuttled the bill. He couldn't control the far right and their screaming heads on which he's depended for so long.

But do I think Cheney will plan another terror attack on the US in 2008 and then declare martial law? Undoubtedly.

Soeharto:

Any relation to the bad guy? Anyway, you're mostly correct and it looks like we will all pay for the apathy MSM corporations induce in our public so they can continue to ravage the planet on behalf of the fraction of 1% that own and control everything and everyone. I hope you understand that their studied methods have rendered Americans as powerless as the jews in nazi concentration camps and won't hold it against those of us who understand and act.

Evelyn Smith:

Here's an interview with Dr. Leuren Moret:

http://www.suesupriano.com/leurenmoret.html

The most frightening aspect of Cheney, as revealed in the WP 4-part series this past week, is his total contempt for the American political system- from supposedly representing the people, to manipulating every aspect of office (prosecutors, judges, government sector appointees), to his blatant and fearless illegal conduct. All that he cares about is his own goal- to Hell with everyone and everything else. "Conscience", I think you are dreaming if you think the Dontacrats will do anything to buck Big Business- I have been a loyal and active Dem my entire adult life, and our party has been taken over by the bad guys, and populated by gutless eunuchs for the past 20 years. Until we take money out of the political picture, the big bucks guys own us.

Eduardov, your letter is just fine, I'll send a like letter to our newspapers letters to the editor and to Nancy Pelosi and to our states congressman. I'll forget my Senators, they are in Bush's hip pocket.

I'll send one to Lou Dobbs and Imus too. Imus still has important friends, perhaps he'll speak to the Governor of New Jersey and others who have some influence. Good letter Ed! Kem Patrick

It occurs to me we are all preaching to the converted, except for an occassional infiltrated sniper. What is necessary is to reach out to the non converts who are in a position to do something. More precisely, try to persuade those sitting on the ideological fence to come to the rescue of the democratic values.

Here is my thought. For a fascist machinery to work, it is necessary that all its cogs work sufficiently well. The US is not a fascist country; at least, not yet. Therefore, in the current administration's machinery there are some cogs who are not fascist and who are having serious doubts about what Bush and Cheney are doing to their country. Some may have felt the urge to do something about it, but don't know what or how.

Here is my proposal. Write a collective letter to the editor of the Washington Post or a similar widely read Washington paper, or if necessary collect the money for a paid advertisement, in the following terms:

«Dear members of the Administration,
We, the people of the United States, appeal to you, the people working in Washington on our behalf, to come to the rescue of the democratic values upon which this country was founded. We know Bush, Cheney and their cronies have been running this country for their own benefit and in their own interests, thereby leading it away from its true role in the world and our own best interests. We know that in the course of your daily work you come across facts that disturb you; memos, phone calls, conversations, actions and directions that you know are immoral, illegal and unworthy of a public servant. We hereby urge you to come forth and denounce such actions by sending an email to «address@commongdreams.org» [or whatever is most appropriate.] Your name will remain secret, if you wish, but your revelations will create a reaction in the institutions of our government designed to check and balance the abuses of public officials who break the law and betray the faith entrusted upon you by the people of the United States. Only you can save the republic now. Be a hero or a heroine and blow the whistle on the foul players who are threatening our country in a manner far worse than any terrorist.»

This needs editing, corrections, deletions and additions and it may not work, but it will certainly instill a no small amount of fear in the sanguine hearts and pacemakers who are fueling so many of our discussions these days.

What is needed is one, two, many Deep Throats who help the citizens of the US impeach these shameless crooks.

Eduardo Villagrán

A most thoughtful opinion Soeharto, difficult to honestly argue.

"STEALTH"? Cheney is as subtle as a fart in a phone booth. Gimme a break.

Lucky lefty: Thank you for sharing your gripping, moving, cautionary tale cum autobiography. It is powerful.

You Americans are relatively healthy, educated and wealthy. You have freedom or speech, association and movement. And there are 300 million of you. Richard Cheney gets to do what he wants to do because Americans are not sufficiently motivated to stop it. i.e he has de facto approval for his agenda. Talk about THAT instead of about Cheney's transgressions. It's the rampant Americanism of the people living in the USA that legitimizes and empowers Cheney. You should be talking about how to defeat Americanism and replace it with healthier and more positive values.

Where is Congress in representing our humanity! Without such humanity, what is democracy worth to us? Without such humanity, how will the planet regard us?
For more, visit my article: "We Want Our Humanity Represented!, Impeachment for Torture, Now!" posted on my blog at: http://www.hankedson.squarespace.com

so what's new? Cheney became the godfather of the oval office when he selected himself as vice-president because Bush doesn't have a brain cell left in his head due to all the acohol and cocaine abuse during his life, which i believe he is still abusing. Bush can't think for himself that's why he needs a criminal like Cheney to come up with these outrageous programs. the mafia could learn alot from Dickhead Cheney. He's nothing but a criminal hiding behind the vice presidency and gets away with it because congress has no backbone and is as crooked as the Bush administration. Everyone of Bush's so-called officials should be impeached and thrown in jail for the rest of their lives for what they've done to this country and trampled all over the founding father's eddicts and laws. Cheney and Bush evidently think they are above the law, like NIxon did. but they make the Nixon administration look like school kids when it comes to breaking the laws which america's fore-fathers had written and adhered to, especiall President Madison. They must be turning in their graves at what has transpired during the Bush administration. A president whom was selected by his father's pals on the supreme court and elected in 2006 by breaking laws so the democrats weren't allowed to vote, which now we know Kerry should be president if the election had been held fairly and not fixed from the beginning. Just like the mafia does. Bush and CHeney has made america the butt of every joke around the world. but what is that old saying: what goes around comes around. hopefully soon their Karma will catch up to them and when congress has the balls to face up to their corrupt system of government, which many of the republicans are involved with them in breaking the laws of the land. if it was up to me, every politician in congress and especially the Bush administration should be hung from the halls of congress and start anew with respectable americans that adhere to the laws of the land. China seems to be better at taking care of their officials who commit acts of lawlessness, which is usually execution. that's what needs to be done to the crooks who are running the country now. at least that's my opinion, if i'm allowed to say that, hoping we still have freedom of speech, which seems we do, if we think and say what the republican cult party says. Every republican gets a memo daily from their party that tells them what to say and do and 99% of them follow the same mantra as their leaders tell them. so until we get rid of the crooks that be, America will never be the same. China is heading towards a form of democracy and America is heading towards a form of communism. when the elected government no longer follows or listens to the american people that is called tryanny. That's when the founding father's stood up and fought when King George III refused to listen to the colonists. that is what is happening today. such as the people of nearly a dozen states have voted for medical pot for people that need it for their medical needs and the federal government states that those who voted in that law means nothing and the federal government overrides the peoples' votes, that is tryanny. now it's time for the people of america to rise up and fight for their rights of an injust government. if we don't the american vote will mean nothing to a criminal interprize such as the mafia and the federal government. but i'm afraid it's already too late. the american people seem not to care what is happening. so it's their own fault when the federal government can commit any crime they want and we can't do a thing about it. Say la V.

Cheney has already helped to commit the last act. He helped by supporting Bush Sr. and GWB when they went to war and used the wonderful weaponry selected in the Gulf Wars, to name just two recent wars. They're wars, no matter what one may decide to call them.

Our govennment leaders, idiots in the Pentagon and others, determined it was perfectly safe to use "depleted uranium" in ammo. They were horribly wrong and they had ample scientific data, written by the world's top nuclear scientists, from as far back as 1945.

The party is over, the fat lady is singing, turn out the lights and be good to your families. Have as much fun as possible.

DO NOT BELIEVE MY OPINIONS___WELL BELIEVE DOCTOR LEUREN MORET'S OPINIONS!!

Doctor Moret is the world's leading authority on the subject of depleted uranium.(DU)
Go to Google and ask for Leuren Moret__ On the next screen click on The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War.

Read it and weep, we are ALL dead men walking. We finally managed to do it, without having a full blown nuclear war.

Don't believe it, read it. If anyone wishes to argue the point, we'd have to argue with Doctor Moret. I'm not inclined to argue, I'm not that smart. Have Fun, Kem Patrick

Anyone else get the gut feeling these guys won't be leaving office in January 2009?

BeaverCleaver says, "Without Dim Son, there could have never been a V.P." Great play on words, and hasty note thanks for the comic relief. It's needed to offset the tragedy of our times.

lets put the blame for all this shit where it belongs. on the mass ignorance of the american people. you are the ones that voted in these assholes. jesus christ! WAKE UP!

Cheney; Master of Reality (Quack,Quack)

ezeflyer:

"Cheney's halo isn't quite up to the Bush codpiece standards, but it does beat the rubber turkey. Who choreographs these things?"

Speaking for the rubber turkey constituency, they were deeply offended by that photo op. Polling for the Bush administration among said turkeys has hit rock bottom.

This guy is no evil genius---evil maybe, smarter than Bush maybe, but Hardly in the same class as Machiavelli.

Bombs bursting in air... we could have a great war started this time if these fools get away with it. War time powers are something the dickbush team are working to strengthen. We will see what they have in store for us and I'll bet it will be like 911 if bushco and their reich have anyway to do it. I hope Osama is more smart than greedy, to not be used as a pawn in a racist war, like last time. Facism is killing our big melting pot I've cherished so much. People used to like each other without having to agree on religion and politics.

For such a Dick he sure is a coward trying to hide!

I like the old days for public execution for high crime criminals! I want to watch this man swing!

Evelyn & Claudius, we are all collateral damage. But I am wondering.

Is that safe big enough to fit a "man" inside? If it is, then the question becomes, "Drop it in the ocean?" or, "Do we seal it in concrete and make it a duopoly monument in the Yorba Linda CA graveyard where we hold Nixon's bones?"

If we choose the monument, it would be a timeless testimony to the canker in the heart of America. We could have three angelic figurines surrounding them. They could be John Mitchell, Edwin Meese, and J. Edgar Hoover kneeling worshipfully with their eyes raised to heaven, slave chains held out as a promise to all life, and human blood dripping from their mouths. Prototypical Aryan Americans. We could call them, "The Big 5".

The last 40 years have been fulfillment. No "direct action" has produced meaningful results in this period. Our country is an unrepentent genocidal Aryan Slave Empire. We have never changed and the structure of such societies is always 80-20. Anybody here part of the "20"?

When my dad was growing up in 20's and 30's, university was for the richfilth, not for him. Had the skills and abilities to be an architect or an engineer. Mathematics was a second language and it was more comfortable for him than English as it is for a lot of non-verbal white men. He knew however that whatever his skills, it was NEVER GONNA HAPPEN. He knew it. He accepted it. And the rage consumed him for the rest of his life. His rage took the form of worshipping wealth and education. Wealth was a good in itself. Education meant "getting ahead" (of everybody else). Education did not mean expanding scope of knowledge and understanding. Education did not mean critical thinking attached to evidence procedures applied to every aspect of life. THAT WAS BETRAYAL.

But he was lucky. Without ever getting his head beat in march, without ever getting beat up for trying to organize a union, he got the Roosevelt Legacy – A GIFT FROM ALL THE ONES WHO DIED. He never acknowledged this. Never spoke on anything, let alone this (whataretheboxscorestoday). Because of that Legacy, he raised 7 children with medical issues, e.g. bad kidney with one, broken kneecap with another, spastic demaplegia for another, normal cuts bruises stitches mumps etc etc. – AND HE DIDN'T END UP BANKRUPT, UNEMPLOYABLE, AND UNDER A FREEWAY BRIDGE. Instead he bought a 3-bedroom house in a Roman Catholic ghetto in '63 for $24k, added a 'room for the boys', and put a kidney shaped swimming pool in the back yard – on $12,500 a year as a salesman. That is dead now.

My father and mother's generation had a choice in the mid-60's. As a direct result of the Roosevelt Legacy they had the greatest distribution of wealth in the history of the world. We had 35% unionization in the private sector thanks to the Wagner Act. The end of poverty was in sight (LBJ cut the poverty figures in half in four years w/out cooking the books), and lifetime stable employment was on the horizon. Remember that? They did 37.5 hrs/wk, 1 wage earner single support of a family of four – buy a house and still have more disposable income every year, 2-3 wk vacations every year. Unbelievable isn't it, now? Well, they had a choice.

They could end poverty and secure that stable employment, but to do that, they had to make a place for everyone at the table and they had to reject war and conquest as an Aryan way of life. THEY FLAT FUCKING REFUSED. By the time Nixon came along, they were primed for the Southern Strategy – DON'T WANT THEM NIGGERS IN OUR NICE WHITE SCHOOLS….remember the riots in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, we're still there. White people WILL NOT ALLOW economic or social justice – they wouldn't then, won't now. The monsters killed a whole bunch of people here and abroad to keep that deal. My generation wrote our parent's deal in Concrete. Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush/Chaney – all part of the DEAL, except now we're just deeper in the shit. Until our empire falls. Which it will as all empires do, with blood in the streets, buildings turned to rubble, screaming mothers holding dead children, madmen with guns in their hearts and death in their eyes and they will be US. Right here in the good old USA. We haven't seen real social chaos since the Civil War. That will look like a picnic because nobody is going to be fighting for anybody's Union. Just themselves. YOYO.

In the end, a Nixon, a Reagan, a Clinton, or a Bush/Chaney well up from very deep sources in this Aryan American society. We always like stolen money better than earned money. We would always rather have a ruthless, amoral, effective thug, than some good hearted 'wise' slob who 'does the right thing'. Never forget, Bush/Cheney's only crime in the minds of America is that they 'failed' in their conquest and they've been caught cooking the books. These men came from us. You may remember the line from the old song, "…with a little bit of luck, with a little bit of luck, with a little bit of luck we won't get caught." That is my America. It is certainly the one I have lived in for the last 58 years. If we were $$, it would be best to sell about now. All the horror we have seen so far are the apertifs before the main course. Best of luck.

Bubye.

No doubt Dick has a man-sized safe, which like a shroud, he wears constantly.

Cheney is the architect of the "new American Reich, a man dedicated to a new variety of fascism. His energy task force that has remained so darkly secret has set back US energy policy badly, contributed heavily to global warming, and cost American task payers billions. Why can't we impeach him!!

There is no doubt the Bush administration has a complete disrgard for the Constitution of the United States, the Rights of the American Citizens and does honestly feel they are above the law and cannot be touched.

Our Congress and Senate confirms that belief. Both the President and VP should have been brought up on charges of Crimes against humanity. Not just for plunging America into a war of greed and power, but for their deliberat deceit to justify the war. America just doesn't invade a country because the lunatic in charge says we should. Our Congress and Senate never read the information, never asked any questions, never researched the information. They nodded like the bobble head doll and turned over their power and authority to the administration.

The Bush years will without a doubt go down in American history as the most corrupt, most destructive and the most shameful period of our time. Yet the first words out of the mouth of the Congressional leader was, "Impeachment is not on the table."

At some point Americans will wake up and take their government and their country back. I just hope when we do, it's not too late for our children.

Dear Meg -- "Right on, Eshu . . . the perception that all is well with the 'nice guys' running the empire. Wasn't it Wesley Clark . . . "

Right on to just where, exactly? The allies of history's mass working class movements -- Robespierre and the reign of terror, Cromwell, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot, Mao -- these are all preferable to Wesley Clark? If examples from other countries don't give you pause, what "mass working class movements" do you want to emulate from this country's history? The burners of the Salem "witches"? The lynch mobs? The followers of Rush Limbaugh? I don't think that the history of any country or people supports the messianic notion that a particular class -- working or any other -- possesses unique virtue, self-restraint, wisdom or commitment to action that in fact (as opposed to in Orwellian rhetoric) moves forward the common good. There are no saviours -- not in a class, not in a race, not in a party. There are good men and women -- the vast majority of the people I've known in 65 years of life -- who want what is decent. And they are trying desperately to get done all that must be done in order to keep their lives going, so they have very little time to devote to the long, difficult, profoundly un-heady, un-apocalyptic, un-messianic work of bringing good policies into place in towns, states, and the country. It is from those decent people -- found in all races, classes, beliefs, peoples -- that whatever good future there may be will come forth.

Evelyn,

That is true.

So bombing Iran is a "given?" With Cheney, Monkey Boy, and Rove in charge, what else can we expect. And we're just going to sit and whine about it and wring our hands? The Do-Nothing Congress will allow it -- as usual. This country disgusts me.

Cladius

You could have ended up as collateral damage.

As powerful as he seems, I still think that Cheney and Bush are small cogs in the machine that is driving Karl Rove to his dream of 100 years of Republican rule. As long as we kvech about Cheney's secrecy and Bush's tyrannical rule, we don't look as the real puppeteer.

I see in the future a Fox noise special, with Geraldo standing before the "man-sized" safe, waiting for it to be opened. Then . . . . . . . . ? It's empty!! No one was ever home in the White House but the puppeteer who was granted full immunity for the opportunity to look inside. No evidence. No indictments. Libby pardoned. Our out-sourced election surprises us with returning congress to the Republicans. And another 2 hours of time goes missing in Ohio. In Florida the U.S. Attorney grabs all African-American ballots before being counted, claiming voter fraud. Our corporate media reverses its call in favor of Democrats. Mr. 9/11 is president!

Cheney's halo isn't quite up to the Bush codpiece standards, but it does beat the rubber turkey. Who choreographs these things?

Evelyn,

And to think that I almost bought some beachfront property in Los Cabos San Lucas! Damn!

Without Dim Son, there could have never been a V.P. Dick Cheney. They go together just like a puppet to the master.

Iocust, You are right, look what happened to Rumsfeld. Gone? Nope, he's stil at it, a government office, a staff and access to top secret documents. My my.

Claudius, Now we are talking a good war. Think of it. Take Mexico, declare Statehood and everyone there is an American. Then take Panama back while we're at it and our southern border would be tiny. The Mexican people would love us. Easy war too, inexpensive, nice weather, great food, better water than ours, lots of beaches and nice people. We'd only need a couple of nukes and the war would be over. No Arabs causing insurgencies and scary crap like that either. I like it.

Bad Joke. Hit me in the face.

"Antonin G. Scalia, "arguably the Court's most colorful jurist today," has conspired with Richard B. Cheney the 46th Vice-President of the United
States of America to subvert the U. S. Constitution. The question now is not only about these " high crimes and misdemeanors," but moreover about a larger effort that includes other justices of the court and other members of the Bush administration, members of Congress, their staff and lobbyists. The on-going subversion of law, today has cost many their civil liberties and all the purse of the US government.

Today the evidence is now broad and conclusive; it is only for the magistrate and the people to file the charges in our courts, in our congress and in our local and state governments."

""Cheney has viewed recent American history as a struggle between the imperial presidency necessary in a brutish world and the naïve, undependable and in some cases disloyal constraints of Congress," said Mr Blumenthal."

And which "superpower" with the aim of achieving "full spectrum dominance" of that brutish world contributes the most to that brutishness? Which country has done its utmost to advance policies that increase poverty and misery, economic disparity, exploitation, environmental degradation, climate change, etc?

I am going to take a stab at the final act. Bombing Iran is a given. No need to further discuss that. However there is something that sounds ridiculously insane, but could be a possibility. In 1798 under the Presidency of John Adams, he signed into law the Alien and Sedition Act. There were four laws under this Act. By 1801 three of the four expired. However, there was one that still exists today as 50 USC 21-24. It is the "Alien Enemies Act" that authorizes the President to deport any immigrant living in the United States who left a country with whom the United States is at war. This certainly will apply to Iranians. However, this is where it sounds crazy but could be a possibility. Knowing how power-hungry Bush, Cheney & Co. are and how they just suffered defeat by the Senate with the Immigration Bill, is there a possibility that we could go to war with Mexico? This is a way to get rid of 12 million illegal aliens and seal the border? Your thoughts??

Frame Cheney's head in a halo, for the photo, see if I care; I can still see his horns.

Why are so many convinced that this is the end of Mr. Cheney's career?
There are no VP term limits in the Constitution. He could even be elected President twice.
Or he might stick around in some new office in some new branch of government that he's invented for himself.
There's still a lot of time before the next election for things to go wrong (or right, if you're Cheney) if people aren't paying attention.
I'd be happier hearing Mr. Cheney speak of his retirement plans, though even then I wouldn't believe him much.

I wanted to ask the same question armchair, am glad you asked, I thought I'd missed something.

I'm afraid to ask what the puppeteers last acts may be. Let's see,___ what were Saddams last acts when he realized he was losing the first Gulf War and ordered his troops to retreat from Kuwait?

If I can't have it, I'll set the oil wells afire. Truly dangerous men. He's an American?

ok botch (author), may i ask, why does a piece referring to cheneys "final stealth act" have NO INFO on what his final stealth act might be? dick is a dick, but this piece is a vacuous waste, just miming a position.

TMCF June 29th, 2007 6:10 pm
"What are you all waiting for?"

I would ask the same question. Gentlemen, time is of the essence.

Cheney is a Nazi Zombie-bot, a soulless brain, the fallguy for a much bigger international fascist machine that cares less if the USA shrivels up and dies. Look to Herr Rumsfeld and 'Kinder Gentler' Daddy Geo and their international corporate fascist connections for deeper explanations... they all lead back to the survivors of the Axis Power Alliance and its corporate backers. Old Man GB1 is one of the main ones who helped consciously lay the local groundwork for this mess for his Fascist Fraternity.
Remember that Prescott Bush was a big military contractor, awash in Wall Street (which has gone from demon to angel status during the Reago-Bush years) and his daddy part of the Robber Baron family network that still rules the Republican Party. The Old Boy network has gone so international that they are destroying America to save the Neu Welt Ordnung (mit Schwazinekker in Kalifornien).

What next?

and What will Cheney's final act be?

Don't know. But something is brewing. the UK is trying to get the UN to put sanctions on Iranian ships. The idea is to make it so Iranian ships can't go to the ports of any other countries. Iranian tankers would have to be sold to other countries or there wouldn't be enough foreign tankers to get Iranian oil to other countries. I wonder why the West just won't say we won't let anyone buy Iranian oil.

The US House has voted to refuse access to American markets to any country that supplys Iran with gasoline. At least that's what I read in the Guardian. I thought the House was controlled by Democrats. Anyway, the idea is that Iranians will be so mad that they will bring down their own government.

And what will the Iranians do?

What next?

and What will Cheney's final act be?

Here's a fun little Dick fact: when helping GWB1 kill democracy, he "commissioned" a study that "proved" privatizing the military would be a super duper idea. And who got the first no-bid mil contract?

Why, Halliburton, of course. A company, don't forget, Cheney all but ran into the ground until he was able to funnel unknown billions by way of... more no-bid contracts, also known as our hard earned taxpayer dollars.

Powell's, "What the hell just happened!" keeps on happening.

I've just finished reading the novel, The Historian, by Kostova. It's a long one about the search for Dracula and end once and for all his existence. Dracula like Cheney has the amazing ability to transform himself into various shapes and to survive what appears to be certain death. I'm reminded of this most cruel of inhuman beings when I read about the machinations of our current veep.

Truly scary.

In all fairness Jim Glover, it isn't just Dennis K. who is busy raising funds - Commondreams keeps soliciting donations lately by mail & online.

TMCF, with all due respect, many souls alive (and dead) have been taking "Proactive direct non-violent action" for decades but it still hasn't reached 'critical mass' or the energy to required to make the pot boil in earnest.

I'm afraid Bane Richter is accurate in stating: "There won't be enough concrete and subterranean blasting to "protect" warped ideals." Further it is true that there are many of us profoundly aware that "we were (are!?) witnessing an unprecedented struggle for power."

Don't forget when thinking strategies; Dick Cheney & friends, (to include NSA), are definitely tuned in and watching. Candidates for office, groups even individuals - to see who, how & when events will play into the palm of his private army's hands.

At least life isn't dull...and we can find irony in the circumstances, yes, Commentarian?

no, dudes, u underestimate dick. when i say "dick", i mean the VP. dont underestimate what a dick he is. this is not a slight against dick, or even shallow name-slighting. its political commentary preceded by respect for his name, dick. hes a dick. anyway, ya, dont underestimate a man who lives to kill flying birds. ducks, geese, pheasants, anything that flies. there is a penile sensation thats comes with cutting a free animal outta the air just as it tries to fly. hunting man, satisfied after kiling 3000 geese as if from a good shit. dick. umm, i was going to follow with sound political commentary, but i just forgot what.

Oh...almost forgot. The two main remaining lies with effectiveness are the al Qaeda (which is starting to crumble as we speak) and the one about privatisation being Iraqi freedom. Once these are exposed, especially about privatisation and Iraqi freedom, the loss of support amoung the troops will cause the castle of lies to finally fall.

But, of course, we must be prepared to stand strong in the face of another 9-11 type orchastration.

Solidarity!

Hmmm.. so - interesting roles we play... we're Solome? :D Sure.. why not!

As Crow Flies: The Sopoenas Are Working! Amy Goodman has echoed the call for a new set of Pentagon Papers: these papers are being typed by investigations and supoenas - now laying as a gauntlet - finally at the White House door.

But the call to impeach must come from the Citizens or the call will be hollow. As an invoker of the black bird it is time to fly to the streets and help rally the Citizens!

Someone recently said Bush has the blood of christ in him, good: Cheney is John the Baptist and it's time for his head, with a crucifixion for this dastardly behavior of war to come!

when the republic is perceived to be under attack, most people turn republican and this easily leads to imperialism; this is why the democrats sound so lame and the bush-cheney administration has gotten away with so much. the only way for the democratic republic to survive is to let it become weaker militarily and stronger by ways of brotherhood, conciliation and example. this could have happened right after the collapse of the soviet union and perhaps preempted 9/11 and the subsequent reign of fear, but instead the US got drunk on triumphalism; the imperial vice presidency and the whole bush administration for that matter is a sick but not totally unexpected consequence of this.

nobody learns except through direct, usually hard, experiences. as the next US elections approach, i wonder whether americans will profit from the last couple of decades of triumphalism first, then fear, and now erosion of the democratic values. the intrinsic conflict between a strong republic and a true democracy has become clear and it will be interesting to see what course our neighbors north of mexico choose to take.

Yes, from his early years cutting his teeth at 'no holds barred' 'rush to the bottom' privatization with good ol' Dumsfeld dismantling the EEO and then going after everything else not nailed down by the MIC (military industrial complex), to suspicious KBR warehouses located along drug trade routes (with assassinations in tow), to selling directional drilling equipment so Kuwait could antagonize Iraq into battle, and many many more success stories, we salute you Mr. Chaney! Your methods can be soon studied for greater victories in the "shadowy world of the foreign intervention scheming thugs." . . . And, a successful entrepreneur of the new and improved WOT tm (War On Terror) to boot - coming to a country near you!

What are you all waiting for? I'm reading a lot here about the attrocities to come, the stolen or suspended 2008 election, etc. If that is the future, what are we waiting for? Electoral politics is not the only type of politics and the neocons are not the only game in town. Their paternal view of the world is convenient for the religious right, the defense and security industry and the ruling class. Those that recognize the truth, that human life on earth is not sustainable if we continue on our current course, cannot wait for those in power to make their next move so we can simply react. Nor can we simply concede to the prevailing view that those with the most gold win and there is little that we can do but react. Proactive direct non-violent action starting today is the only monkey-wrench we have in hand that can gum up the works. So let's stop belly-aching and start framing things in terms of our values and taking actions consistant with those values.

Don't expect these bastards to leave quietly if the Republicans lose the 08 elections. Expect martial law....

Subpoenas? LOL.

After the successful military coup of 2000 and the convenience of 9/11, it was horrifying to hear cargo aircraft flying overhead in Maryland and worse still to see a heavy machine gun aimed at traffic on Massachusettes Ave in DC. Most of us, burned in part by trillions of evaporated wealth from the market that tanked prior to 9/11, felt that we were witnessing an unprecedented struggle for power. Therefore, with Cheney, our best guesses are probably accurate. There won't be enough concrete and subterranean blasting to "protect" warped ideals.

entelechy, I completely agree with you. I think we are in deep trouble. If (when) it happens, I hope there is resistance from the people of this country, but fear is a the great neutralizer and Cheney uses it so well.

That is why I was suggesting in a earlier comment that the Republicans would love to have us get rid of them (they are baggage now) one at a time so that they can play the musical chair game of resign for a pardon and no resolution of the problem...So is Kucinich afraid of the truth? The truth is Bush/Cheney are coconspirators of every high Crime you read about so if you don't try them together as conspirators you facilitate their escape from justice.
I doubt if Dennis had thought this through..... He is so busy tryin to get more money to get elected you know...

Maybe we should be calling it a "lame dick" presidency?

What good is a pacemaker to one who has no heart?

In my opinion, at this very moment Cheney/Bush are conspiring to arrange yet another terrorist attack on U.S. soil that will give them the excuse they need to declare a national emergency, cancel the elections, nullify the Constitution and declare themselves a diarchy. Watch your heads!

"The future is with a mass independent movement based on the working class majority and its allies, or there is no future."

Right -- the world has certainly been made happy by the mass independent movements of the working class majority and its allies over the last few centuries, on several continents.

Coyotita quoted this: "His record for outflanking his enemies is such that there is little cause for optimism among his opponents who would have him impeached." And wrote: "Independent, you say? HA!"

Question: how does pointing out that Cheney seems always to win make somebody not independent? Is it not a fact that this monster has a fantastic success rate when it comes to getting what he wants? Does it show bias to state a fact? Sure it does. And if you look at the rest of the facts stated in the article, it's clear the author isn't exactly a fan of Darth Cheney.

DICK CHENEY... before he "Dicks" you!

And after we surge the total 160,000 troops into Iraq and have four aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, will Cheney be the Dr Strangelove to come out of the closet and bomb Iran? After all, all of those oil tankers from ExxonMobile controlled Iraqi fields will need a route to the US through the Persian Gulf, and securing the Gulf means taking on Iran.

For starters, this issue doesn't sound like much compared to all of the really evil things Bush and Cheney have done, but they did in fact violate the law about white house transparency. The law was written due to our national experience with Watergate and erased tapes. There a large numbers of e-mails missing off of the official government server and a Republican Party server was used to conduct business and bypass the official server. There is a wealth of evidence about this crime snd they are most blatantly guilty. They deserve at least one good smackdown before they leave office.

These Congressional investigations and subpoenas are meaningless. Why? There is nothing backing them up to compell the administration to abide by them. Constitutional crisis? Only for the last 25 years.

Short of impeachment and prosecution, there is nothing to protect the country from a truly catastrophic crisis concocted by the Cheney administration. The Republican party is complicit, the Democratic party is complicit, the Mass Media is complicit, and the majority of the somnabulist American public is complicit.

So what'll it be, America? An economic collapse, a nuclear war with Iran with a barrel of oil soaring above $100-125? The lack of any pushback to this Republican lawlessness has never been so costly.

And now, SCOTUS is getting into the corporatist slapdown of individual liberties and oversight of big business. I hope all those Democratic Senators that didn't vote for fillibuster or against cloture on the Roberts and Alito nominations are proud of themselves.

My disgust with this government is...beyond words.

Now is the time to impeach Cheney and imprison him in Abu Grab for crimes against America.

"Deeply conservative aims"? Cheney is no conservative; he is a Hitlerian sociopatic killer, a Libertine a la de Sade. True conservatives have morals. That first sentence informed me the article is a waste of time.

Anything less than the Nuremberg Trials for this backward asshole would be letting him off easy.

This scumbag's legacy will be Bible-thumping war while he leans back on his mountain of Halliburton cash. If only hell existed and if only there was a God. Instead, it's up to the American people to make him pay for his crimes which will inevitably continue to escalate through 2008.

It will be a beautiful sight to see him govern from the heart ... I mean, pacemaker.

There is not one thing more loathsome than a wolf columnist dressed in liberal sheep's clothing.

Leonard Doyle writes, about Cheney: "His record for outflanking his enemies is such that there is little cause for optimism among his opponents who would have him impeached."

Independent, you say? HA!

Love that picture with this article, he looks angelic doesn't he? But his job isn't to be popular, it's to serve the oil companies by any means necessary. Oil is a "necessity" for our sick economy, all americans are complicit in this. People rail on him then go out driving everywhere for everything, often in inefficient trucks/cars/SUVS, then complain about gas prices too. Affluence and comfort isn't free, it has to be taken from somewhere. Cheney is your Daddy whether you like it, or realize it, or not. And when he is gone the same business will continue for the most part, regardless of which corporate sell out puppet(which all the major candidates are) wins the election.

Right on, Eshu. If nothing else, the democrats are stars at creating the perception that all is well with the 'nice guys' running the empire. Wasn't it Wesley Clark who was forced to admit to giving the order to target civilians on a train taking them to work in the Bosnian war? The only difference with Cheney is that he doesn't even try to hide his inhumanity.

lets waterboard this lousy terrorist and find out what atrocities he and his hoardes from hell have committed

"Dead Eye Dick" only has it partly right. His ticket never got elected at all. Diebold stole it for the GOP. Hey, the Republicans invented vote stealing since the advent of Democrats and Republicans as modern parties in 1876 with Rutherford B Hays, and that's documented fact. They just took page out of their old play book, "If you can't win fairly, then just steal the hell out of it."

The Kennedy assasination, far from being the "first" overt political violence in the United States, was at best an excess of a ruling class begun to go truly gonzo. Overt political violence has been a feature of the political establishment in this country since the war on the Native inhabitants began in the seventeenth century.

And yes, the democrats will take control of the criminal activity, and most of the middle class indignation that waxes in full glory when a Bush is in power will sit quietly when an Obama is in power.

The future is with a mass independent movement based on the working class majority and its allies, or there is no future.

We have to begin to appreciate that this is the culmination of the first overt political violence in America .... the coup on JFK.
And we've had decades of political violence since then. This is the way that fascism comes to power.

And we now have a Supreme Court -- corporate, sexist and racist, which will enable capitalist exploitation of nature, natural resources and even other human beings, by the few.

Will Democrats take control of this criminal activity or let it burst thru into full blow fascism?

Nah Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah
Dick Cheney Good Bye!

"Cheney will have his heart pacemaker installed next month and even with mortality knocking on the door, there is every possibility he will engineer yet another foreign policy surprise, possibly against Iran. . . . The biggest charge against Cheney is that he has transformed the executive office into one of unlimited and unaccountable power."

Not that the imperium needs a foreign policy surprise to cancel the 2008 clusterf%*#k for the White House.

There it is..."We didn't get elected to worry about the fate of the Republican Party." Not only are they using Evangelicals as tools for their agenda, but so too Republicans themselves.

If I were a Democratic congressman I'd use that as a wedge to divide the Republican party from the neocon administration.

Just as I hope for all thugs, including Cheney, they will eventually meet their "convenient" Maker, and pay for their sins.

My other hope is that we have enough guts to neuter him so he can be made harmless after his reign. Anyone listened to War Pigs lately? Scary.

Ah what a truly charming chap this Cheney fellow is. Perhaps it is time to look into the small matter of the minutes of the Energy Task Force weeks after the election of 2000 fiasco. It may hold an explanation of all of the mysterious events that followed.

Evelyn:
Nothing on her site about UFO's:

http://www.mindfully.org/Resource/resource.htm

Wikipedia sez:

"Moret has also expressed her support for the claim that space weapons were involved in the destruction of the WTC towers on 9/11/01 in a proposal for an International Tribunal[1] with Vancouver UFO-ologist, Alfred Webre."

Space weapons are real and appearing with Webre does not a UFO-logist make. Webre is not the nut one might think. From Wikipedia:

"After a lifetime of experiences, research and interactions with key players, Webre believes that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life in our Universe. [2] He is the author of the online e-book, Towards a Decade of Contact and the book Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe. The exopolitics model functionally maps the operation of politics, government and law in an intelligent Universe, and provides an operational bridge between models of terrestrial politics, government and law, and the larger models of politics, government and law in Universe society.

Webre believes that as exopolitics posits, the truest conception of our human circumstance may be that we are on an isolated planet in the midst of a populated, evolving, highly organized inter-planetary, inter-galactic, multi-dimensional Universe society. [2][5] He believes that we live on a planet that has been quarantined (the Zoo Hypothesis) and that we are now being given an opportunity to join the rest of the spiritually evolved Universe Society in peace, thus an opportunity to avoid environmental global self-destruction or global self-destruction through war. [2]

Webre's views are not unlike the conclusion of other independent researchers such as Associate Professor of Political Science, Dr. Courtney Brown and the late Harvard Medical School Professor of psychiatry, Dr. John Edward Mack, who believed that we must become "galactic citizens". [15]"