Thursday, November 03, 2005

Cover-up Cheney in Charge; Radioactive Bush Departs

The Dems sent Cheney a letter today urging him to remove a few of the crooks and liars from the White House. The letter reads like a lecture a parent would give to a kid, as in - Grown-ups to Cheney: Your credibility is shot. No one believes anything that comes out of your mouth, or your office.

Eighty-one percent of the American people disapprove of you. Those numbers are not likely to improve and may well go lower now that you will surely be forced to testify at Libby's trial, since Scooter pled not guilty today.

Your idea of an appropriate response to an indictment is to promote the people who have been named in the indictment!

Isn't that how they do it in the Mafia?

Raw Story observes:

"The letter notes that senior Cheney aides named in the Libby indictment are still working -- and in fact both have been promoted.

The aides are David Addington (who was promoted to the Vice President's chief of staff) and John Hannah (was promoted to be his National Security Adviser)."

Way to go, Cover-up Cheney. You're doing a heckuva job!

The letter, from Democratic Senate leaders Harry Reid (D-NV), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), notes that:

To date, the White House has expressed no concern, no regret, no apology, and no explanation for what happened in the Valerie Plame case.

Meanwhile, the unapologetic Radioactive Bush is fleeing the country today, headed for South America where they really really don't like him.

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (Reuters)
- Shopkeepers raced to board up storefronts and residents fled this Argentine seaside resort on Thursday as thousands of protesters prepared marches against U.S. President George W. Bush during an Americas-wide presidential summit. . . U.S. interests like Blockbuster video stores and Citibank branches were covered with corrugated metal shields ahead of protest marches early Friday. A Chavez-sponsored train will bring anti-Bush celebrities like Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona to the city.

U.S. anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and other relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq are also expected in town.

Since we aren't seeing or hearing much of anything from Cheney, it seems safe to assume that he is holed up in one of his undisclosed locations. With Bush taking his radioactive presence to South America, our country seems to be on auto pilot, which may well be the safest course of all.

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