That All you Got?

Floundering, directionless and desperate, the White House deployed the flotilla of swift boats against Sen Harry Reid (hero) this evening. Imagine Cheney accusing Reid of malicious conduct unbecoming his role, echoed in rapid succession by the Mouthpiece of the Torturers Scott McClellan and by Cheney's pet shyster Steve Schmidt. It isn't the Republican thing to do, but let's look at the facts:

Cheney wants permission to torture detainees. When he didn't get his way, he asked for an exemption so that, with Presidential approval, the CIA can trot out the ropes, the bare light bulbs, the dobermans and the black leather.

This week it came out that the chief witness linking Al Qaida to Iraq did so under torture in an Egyptian prison and was deemed by the CIA to be unreliable. Cheney and his pet President went ahead and used the intelligence as if it were fact to sell the war.

Cheney's office is under investigation and his chief of staff under indictment for an act that, once, would have been labled treason, the leaking of a covert operative's name and position, i. e. leaking classified information to quell critics of his policies.

All Harry Reid has done is to shine the light of truth on the corruption in the Vice Torturer's office and the conduct unbecoming that has gone on there for five years. Can't stand the message, swift boat the messenger. That, my friends, is Republican values in action. We can only hope the increasing loss of credibility Cheney and Bush are experiencing lead to a bit of critical thought, that people see through Cheney's increasingly malicious, desperate attacks.