So Cheney says he won't run for Pres. He said he wouldn't be VP too. He's been known to lie. I don't believe a word he says, and if you disagree with me, you can go F*#k yourself. Big time.

Make no mistake, Cheney's statements on DeLay were intentional and calculated. Rove may be lower than pond scum but he's not stupid and realizes DeLay is poison to dubya's second term. The administration would love to remove DeLay's feeding tube but it is beginning to look like they can't. The radical Christians who were being taken for a ride have hijacked the car.

It sure would be nice if the Religious Right would find another issue to get Bugman all riled up again. Here's hoping.

See? Cynicism everywhere! But in this case, well warranted.

Now's the time, okay, maybe in a few months, like 16 months, is when the Republicans should try to reclaim their party from the radical religious freaks. But not one minute sooner!

See, we can tell the thuglicans how to do things too. It's fun. And easy. And should be just as impactful as when they tell us what we should do!

Interesting. Cheney is from the fat-cat wing of the party; he doesn't give a rat's ass about all that Christian stuff, he just wants his friends in the oil biz to make lots of money. His political base in Wyoming is also where that fake libertarianism is politically popular (I say "fake" because it's based on government subsidies, like dirt-cheap access to timber, minerals, and ranching on federal land).

Civil war in the Republican party between the fat cats and the Christian right is a real possibility.

Civil war in the Republican party between the fat cats and the Christian right is a real possibility.

Maybe. Cheney et al. have a precarious balancing act they have to pull off:

They can't afford to lose the Bible-Thumpers' votes, so they can't ever take a really strong stand against DeLay et al. But it will get harder and harder for them to reassure the "libertarians" that they believe in small government, because of the crazy measures that the 'Thumpers are demanding.

It's easy to hold together a coalition as long as victory is always just around the corner. Once you're sitting atop a big pile of the spoils of victory, though, everybody starts demanding their slice.

Umm, Dick "Big Time" Cheney knows what hand feeds him and which body (Scotus) it was that used a one time only Supreme Court ruling to put him into office in the first place. Maybe he has heard from his duck hunting buddy Scalia who gave him a warning about all the unrest and unhappiness in the courts. Perhaps he realizes you don't piss off one of the "checks" in the "checks and balance system" if you ever hope to get appointed to the office of the President again. Or maybe he hopes to get favorable rulings to keep Secret Energy Task Force papers perpetually secret and Halliburton scams from ever seeing anymore light of day or a courtroom?

Let's put it this way, there is certainly no shortage of egomaniacs in the republican party. We just happen to see two off them in a faceoff.

As for his comments about running for president. Well let's remember that these words come from the same man during the VP debate with John Edwards last October 04 still insisted that Hussein had ties to AQ and 9/11. He also point blank looked at Ewards and lied to his face when he said the debate was first time he had ever met John Edwards before even though they had met and been photographed with him at least 3 times earlier.

The only way DeLay is going down is for Republicans to quit cleaning his litter box. The stink will get bad enough then to kick him out of the house.