If and when the legislature finally grows some and attempts to impeach Cheney the VP, he will once again become simply a member of the legislature and … well … see above.

It’s deja-vu all over again.

There is a better chance that Cheney will die of old age before he is brought to justice. Oops, I just said Cheney and die in the same sentence. I probably just made my way onto Cheney’s secret surveillance list.

If Clinton had had a ‘proper’ war going for him - even like Bush’s phony one, the impeachment proceedings brought against him would never have happened. The Iraq war is the Bush/Cheney ace in the hole.

If anyone who represents me, Feinstein, Boxer, Harmon pulls that it’ll-tear-the-country-apart shit, she’s gone.

“Dick Cheney has more lives than Freddy Krueger. How many times before this have we thought he was on his last one? Cheney has so many defensive layers of subordinates, claims of privileges, and legal arguments he can probably ride out this subpoena business until the next Republican president pardons him. The guy has committed enough sins to run for Satan and win by a landslide, but don’t expect him to ever pay a price for them in this life.

“But is it worth harassing him to the maximum extent possible? You bet it is. Dick Cheney is still the high priest of the administration’s neoconservative “crazies in the basement.” Every moment Dick spends covering his six is a moment he doesn’t focus on driving U.S. foreign and domestic policy, and every moment we can keep Cheney’s hands off of U.S. policy is a good moment for America.”

The latter would finally crush my remaining hope that the Court might wander back into legitimacy following the Bush v. Gore fiasco, and mean we truly had not just one, but two branches of our government firmly in the grip of lawless and cynical men. (Perhaps the Court would issue another “this is not a precedent” decisions, lest a future Democratic president get benefit.)

Yet, if the scales can fall from Broder’s eyes, maybe there is still room to believe that the nation can be saved. Impeachment for Cheney would be a good start.

This is absolutely critical. It’s literally how we got into this mess in the first place, the Dems pardoning and excusing Republican wrong-doing from way back, from Iran-Contra and earlier. Someone needs to do the definitive history of this line of criminals, beginning with the country’s failure to absorb the lessons of VietNam. And highlighting all the breaks the Dems gave these people so they could metastatize into their full blown arrogant glory these last six years.

I just don’t know if the Dems are up to it. Someday they have to learn, like the battered wife, to stop making excuses for bullies. The moment they do, the country will begin to respect them, and start to feel good about them, instead of merely enduring them as not-as-bad-as-the-Republicans.