Will The Former Vice President Please Sit Down.

Many of you might have noticed the current media blitz being carried out over the last week by former Vice President Dick Cheney. Who better than this poor self deluded puppet-master of the previous administration, to carry the standard of shame he is directly responsible for imposing on this Nation. In his ongoing diatribe to justify torture, he trudges on unabated and without remorse for the war crimes he dictated, approved of, and applied. He stated this week they were "...legal, essential, justified, successful and the right thing to do."

He did this while in his next breath, calling the soldiers who acted at Abu Ghraib "rogues" para-phrasing... an element of the military that acted sadistically and without orders from their superiors. An unfortunate but isolated act that was disgraceful and the individuals involved prosecuted. This from a man who now knows to well, those exact torture techniques were dictated in memos written by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld as well as himself. Techniques employed even before the hacks at the Justice Department could come up with the legal justifications for such actions.

This all from a man who was the C.I.A.'s most ardent critic while he was Vice President , but is now it's staunchest supporter. Conservatives think they have a winner with this, something which they can use to get some traction against the Democrats. To not support terror, is to support terrorists. To publicly discredit the policies of the former administration simply to get some applause lines in Europe. They did what was needed to keep the United States free of another attack over the last seven and a half years. To torture was essential for the security of the Nation, and to disagree is to "...libel those Americans who carried those tactics out."

Mr Cheney in your vein self serving and weak attempt to re-write history remember this, 9/11 happened on YOUR WATCH! ...and the outright lies, misconceptions, deceptions, and otherwise steady flow of misinformation and fear generated by your administration following 9/11, was a deliberate attempt to scare the collective nation as a whole, and use that fear to justify your ends. My God man how do you sleep at night?

Your methods of fear, your false prophecies, your collective indifference to the American Public and the Nation they believe in have been rejected. You my good man have been rejected, your party, rejected, all that you stand for and attempt poorly to admonish is over. As you ignored the people, so they ignore you now. My apologizes to Keith Olbermann for stealing the final quote from his Special Comment of May 21st, 2009 but it is simply to fitting.

"You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! - Oliver Cromwell

See all of Keith Olbermann's Special Comment here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30874523

Republican Chairman Michael Steele, The Gift That Keeps On Giving.

Yesterday, RNC Chairman Michael Steele attempted his version of a pep talk to the Republican Party faithful. In his speech he said the days of the Republican Party apologizing for past mistakes is over. The honeymoon is over, it is time to take the President head on, and the 2 party system is back, ... do you hear crickets?

Dana Milbank of The Washington Post put it best... Steele’s speech “was red meat for the party leaders … but they let many of the applause lines go without a murmur. When they did rouse themselves, about 60 percent applauded, 20 percent thumbed their BlackBerrys, and the rest were either eating dessert or daydreaming.”

He went on to call the Republican Party the party of new ideas. One of them to be addressed today, which would re brand the current Democratic Party the Democrat Socialist Party. Hey, how's that for forward thinking in addressing all the challenges that face the Nation? We're in an economic meltdown, issues like health care reform, education, energy all out there for the taking and they want to debate a new name for the Democratic Party, can you stand it!

If that isn't bad enough now the party is trying to curb, if not eliminate, his financial powers as chairman. A move which he fought vehemently when questioned on Fixed News. Paraphrasing now... so there will be no comptroller in charge of RNC funds... Steele responding ...not if I have anything to say about it. If the RNC wants a figure head, that's fine, but it won't be Michael Steele.

Is this his out? A way to end his awe inspiring tenor as RNC leader?

Well the latest Gallop Poll had this to say for his efforts. Looks like they have some serious work ahead of them.

www.gallup.com/poll/118528/GOP-Losses-Span-Nearly-Demographic-Groups.aspx

UPDATE: The Republican Party voted down the idea to rename the Democratic Party the Democratic Socialist Party. Now that they have stopped trying to define the Democrats, maybe they should start trying to define themselves, just a thought.