Robert Kuttner: Cheney's still dangerous (Boston Globe)

[Eugene]

ROBERT KUTTNER

Cheney's still dangerous

By Robert Kuttner | March 10, 2007

ONE BUMPER STICKER proposes: Impeach Cheney First.

Vice President Dick Cheney has now suffered back-to-back humiliations,
with the conviction of his former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, and the
wresting of key foreign policy decisions by Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice. But if anything, he is even more dangerous wounded.

-snip-

With Democrats now in the congressional majority, the administration
has lately been running on two tracks. On one track, grown-ups seem to
have regained a measure of control. Rice was able to negotiate a long-
delayed deal with the North Koreans to limit that nation's nuclear
ambitions in exchange for the beginning of normalized relations. The
deal has been available for six years. Rice was able to win its approval
only by keeping Cheney out of the loop and requesting National Security
Adviser Stephen Hadley to take the agreement directly to President Bush.

-snip-

Yet, at the same time, the contempt for law continues, such as the firing
of US attorneys. And Cheney may be down but he is far from out.

After the conviction of Libby for lying about his smear campaign against
Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Joseph Wilson, prosecutor Patrick
Fitzgerald declared his investigation over. One juror, Denis Collins, spoke
for many Americans when he wondered aloud why Libby was made the fall
guy, when he was so clearly doing the bidding of the vice president and
his larger campaign to take America to war based on a tissue of lies.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/03/10/cheneys_still_dangerous

[saltpoint]

1. Well of course he's still dangerous. He's a malevolent snake, an unexamined

nihilist, an unrepentant tyrant, and a son-of-a-bitch besides.

But he's been damaged by the Libby verdict. If little Scooter did bad things just maybe Uncle Dick knew ab out it. Word's out that Cheney is a lessened profile.

May numerous investigations in 07 and 08 make these final 2 years of Cheney's administration extremely challenging.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. He's one of the few creatures . . .

. . . that absolutely makes my blood run cold.

I think he's doubly dangerous right now. Bloodthirsty sonofabitch.

[acmavm]

3. If this don't beat all. Someone who is acknowledged by everyone as

being a danger to this country, to the people, and to the way this country is supposed to function and to the things it's supposed to stand for is ALLOWED TO REMAIN IN POWER.

What kind of insanity is this? An acknowledged liar and thug not facing, and more than likely will never face, any consequences for what he's done to us and to the rest of the world.

Amazing. Just plain fucking amazing.

[MLFerrell]

4. Any cornered animal is dangerous.

Especially ones that have every resource of the United States available for their nefarious purposes.