Great Fight Leading into the Big Bout

You know, i got to thinking...assuming we get a strong VP candidate (and we better), i can't WAIT to see the Cheney v. ________ VP debates. that guy rarely comes out of his "secured undisclosed location" long enough for anyone to question him on the last 4 years worth of policy he's been hawking. He's been one of the strongest proponents of every bad move this nation has made in the last 4 years and i cannot wait to hear ANYONE take him to task for it. i'm getting excited just thinking about it.

Reading this article by Joe Conason got me thinking about all of this. most noteworthy is this sum-up of some very striking flaw's in the VP's attempts to do his job:

In his speech at the Reagan Library, Cheney insinuated that the likely Democratic nominee would prove "entirely inadequate" in the fight against international terrorism, because he supposedly doesn't realize that we are "at war" with al-Qaida. In fact, Cheney himself is deeply vulnerable on this very point, if the Democrats have the courage to mention what he did -- or, more important, didn't do -- in the months before Sept. 11, 2001.

It was Cheney who dismissed the warnings of truly imminent danger from the previous administration's national security officials. It was Cheney who ignored the years of painstaking work by the Hart-Rudman Commission, insisting that he would chair his own anti-terror task force. It was Cheney who failed to act on that pledge between May 2001, when the president announced that he would head the administration's counterterror effort, and September, when catastrophe struck. No wonder he tried to bully the Congress into abandoning any investigation of 9/11.

very good joe, very good.