Matthew Rothschild: Haughty, Heartless Cheney

[marmar]

from The Progressive:



Haughty, Heartless Cheney
By Matthew Rothschild, March 25, 2008


Dick Cheney has sunk to new lows, even for him.

Showing the utmost disdain for democracy, which has become his trademark, Cheney last week dismissed polls showing two thirds of Americans rejecting the Iraq War. He gave a one-word response: “So?”

When Martha Raddatz of ABC News asked him a few days later about this response, he said, with regal haughtiness: “If I wanted to be loved, I’d ought to be a TV correspondent.”

What a jerk.

But it’s perfectly in keeping with what he said right before the 2006 elections when asked whether a Democratic win on the Iraq War issue might make the Bush Administration reconsider its course.

"It may not be popular with the public -- it doesn't matter in the sense that we have to continue the mission and do what we think is right. And that's exactly what we're doing," Cheney said. "We're not running for office.”

This is Cheney, the Great Unaccountable One.

It’s a point former Vice President Walter Mondale recently made with great force.

“Public opinion deserves respect and the President and the Vice President ought to be worried about it. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx032508

[flor de jasmim]

1. Not to mention that we also deserve politicians who DESERVE our respect.

[jimshoes]

2. I know one place I'll be

pissing sometime in the future. Oh yes.