The Red Dress

If you can't bedazzle them with brilliance,
then baffle them with bullshit
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There are dribs and drabs in the press about Cheney and court orders concerning his testimony in reference to the Valerie Plame affair. Thus far, Cheney's role in this affair has not been investigated in any meaningful legal manner.

This may possibly be the avenue of approach to ensure he ends up in front of a judge on this mortal plane. (Any judge except Scalia, Roberts, Aliot, et. al.) The offense will be lying in official sworn testimony. It may seem niggling, but it was enough to skewer big dogs like Bill Clinton and Al Capone.

The feds couldn't pin anything major on gangster Capone, but he ended up going down nonetheless on a piddling income tax evasion conviction.

Why not use the same approach with Cheney?

Just Another Day

God's in His heaven and
All's right with the world!
--Pippa's Song, Robert Browning

It's Just Another Day
Du Du Du Du Du
It's Just Another Day
--Another Day, Paul McCartney

No position taken has done more damage
to the American reputation in the world -- ever
--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., on the Bush
administration's extralegal torture policies
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Ranger isn't sure whether hypocrisy or just plain bald-faced lying is the leitmotif of the story of George Bush's claims of executive privilege in the Valerie Plame case.

President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003 (Bush Claims Executive Privilege on CIA Leak Case).

Remember when pre-28 Percenter George told the credulous taxpayers on the investigation into the leak of the CIA operative's name, "If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration"? One would almost think he had integrity. He obviously meant someone outside of the President's or Vice President's office, which we have since learned are two sacrosanct domains.

We now see his empty protestations as part of his oeuvre. One must put things in perspective. Thousands of Americans dead in a Phony War on Terror (PWOT©) and tens of thousands severely wounded and disabled. Americans losing jobs daily, their dollar tanking and oil and commodity prices soaring. Foreign policy is a shambles, if it can be said to exist at all, and the military is unable to secure far-flung dreams of Bush's fantasized glory.

So what's the big deal? A little lie in the service of punishing an infidel (Plame's husband Joseph Wilson, the blasphemer who wrote in 2003 the Bush administration had trumped up intelligence to "exaggerate the Iraqi threat.") What Wilson didn't understand was that like VISA, Iraq was everywhere Bush wanted it to be.

The show must go on, after all. And the lord loves a sinner.