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Dick Cheney’s Farewell Snarls

Bush’s Scrooge is making some final appearances and, true to his nature, giving us “Bah, humbug” to the very end.

Almost six years, 4210 American lives and trillions of dollars after the Iraq invasion, the Vice President tells us “the world is better off with Saddam gone…This was a bad actor.”

Torture? “Did it produce the desired results? I think it did…it’s been a remarkably successful effort. I think the results speak for themselves.”

William Kristol, in his fond farewell, assures Cheney “Popularity Isn’t Everything” as a new poll shows 23 percent of Americans ranking him as the worst vice president ever. But the VP, who picked himself for the job, doesn’t require solace. “I’m very comfortable,” he says. “with where we are and what we achieved substantively. And frankly, I would not want to be one of those guys who spends all his time reading the polls.”

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3 Responses to “Dick Cheney’s Farewell Snarls”

  1. GeorgeSorwell says:

    Why should Cheney care?

    He'll be getting a blanket pardon for the whole shebang-bang-bang anyway, right?

  2. kritt11 says:

    He's very comfortable because his Haliburton stock has quadrupled while other investors have lost their shirts in the stock market. If he and W can convince themselves that everything they did was to protect America- he'll retire with peace of mind.

    All I can say is that his version of protecting us has come darn close to destroying us. I doubt that the terrorists could have done more harm than our own government.

  3. saintixe says:

    yes comfortable knowing that he can sleep because of the g men who are keeping him safe from retribution
    the guy has a lot to answer and would not be the first one to meet w/an avaneging assassin….

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