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Jan 25, 2007
Not In My House You Don't
Uncle Dick sure is a grumpy f***er! Here we see him glowering at Wolf Blitzer as Wolf tries to bait Darth Cheney with some criticism of his lesbian daughter's recently announced pregnancy.
So Wolf is out of line with his questions, but anti-gay marriage amendments are perfectly fine. Speaking out against unwed mothers is cool. Refusing to fund women's clinics that give birth control options is fin and dandy. But daring to bring those chickens home to roost is out of line.
Obviously, I'm not the first person to point out Dick and Lynn Cheney's "Do as say, not as I do" attitudes, especially in regards to their unmarried, lesbian, now pregnant daughter.
It's just that I don't understand how the people who support Cheney and proudly sport their Bush/Cheney 04 bumper stickers can continue to swallow this stuff with smiles on their faces.
The lies, distortions, mistruths, and general calumny of the communications of this administration are a constant slap in our collective faces, regardless of the color of our votes. Each utterance removes another brick from the bulwark of American democracy. Each aristocratic refusal to share power or information with the media and other members of the unwashed masses moves us closer to the bonds of autocracy that Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, and Washington fought so hard to remove us from.
And everyday, we let it happen. We hear the lies and the distortions of fact, and mischaracterizations and we do nothing. Many of us even cheer it on as the right of power to do what it wishes, hoping in vain that one day we, too, will have the opportunity to abuse privilege in their image.
They characterize stubborness as conviction, refusal to compromise as courage under fire, and undisguised nationalism and intolerance as patriotism. And we, for the most part, are too disinterested or lazy to call them on it.
Our American system allows us to speak truth to power only if we are active, only if we are involved. Our system also enables distortion, secrecy, and turpitude if we are not. And that is exactly what what Lord Cheney is counting on.
BTW, I, just like Wolf, really dig unmarried pregnant lesbians, too. Really. I do, Mr. Cheney, sir! Really.
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