Wonkette
The whole political Internets were abuzz (WITH JEALOUSY) all day yesterday about how lil’ old Sam Stein, the workmanlike Huffington Post blog reporter, got to ask Obama a very serious question at his primetime press conference about prosecuting Bush and Cheney for their various crimes against everyone. White House press conferences will devolve into Atrios yelling monosyllabic pejoratives from a dark corner in the back of the room, for days. It is David Denby’s dream. Anyway, yeah, Sam Stein, he interviewed Pat Leahy last night and got some good stuff.
Stein asked Leahy, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and prestigious local film critic, what he made of that toxic bindle of ratshit, Dick Cheney, telling the damn Politico last week that Obama was going to get the United States blow’d up for Allah:
In an interview with Leahy last night, I asked him about the former V.P.’s latest, cryptic assertion that the Obama administration was making it easier for terrorists to successfully attack the United States. The senior Senator from Vermont didn’t disappoint.
“I just want to say here Bush and Cheney were in charge when the last attack happened,” Leahy said. “They were warned about the last attack before it happened. On September 10th their proposal was to cut our counter-terrorism budget substantially. I don’t need any lectures from him. They screwed up badly.”
MMMMMMM.
“They are also the same people who said the war in Iraq would be over in a couple weeks, shock and awe and we would find the weapons of mass destruction. Their policy was to let Osama bin Laden get away when we had him cornered and send the troops into a useless war in Iraq. No, no, I don’t think he has a great deal of credibility.”
Cheney has responded, on the record, that he will gut every member of Pat Leahy’s family within the next three (3) days.
Leahy Knocks Cheney [HuffPo]
BUT HE KEPT US SAFE SINCE 9/11!!!!1!1
Unless you’re a US soldier, that is.
I thought Cheney was dead? Without NIH suppliers, where is he getting all the babies to eat to stay alive?
SCORE!
Iraq wasn’t useless — now nobody doubts our ability to strand over 100,000 troops in a hostile country without water or electricity and still keep them supplied with air conditioning, Eggo Waffles and Country Time Lemonade. Too bad we couldn’t do the same for civilians in New Orleans, but hey — as Donald Rumsfeld said, freedom is messy. Some free people just choose to drown in their attics.
Kev-O-Tron: Or Spanish. Or Indonesian. Or British.
So much passion in Leahy’s denouncement of the Dickster. I suspect good love gone bad.
YES! Leahy is the shit! And his Truth Commission (if it gets picked up) will be the best show since sliced bread!
I think I mix metaphors a little when I have a Cheney-death boner.
Why be serious?
4tehlulz: Or human. Or mammal. Or fish. Or fowl.
Yes. The entire world is safe.
I’m sure Cheney’s loss of credibility in the eyes of Pat Leahy will surely be extremely disheartening to ole Dick when he’s forcing Pat to actually fuck himself. Dick is so obviously concerned with the opinions of others.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Uh oh, now Chenester’s going to have to drive down to the post office and make another very special anthrax delivery…can’t you guys just let him take a break? Jesus.
Damn, Leahy is bad-ass!
Miller plugs blog. FAIL.
Hooray For Anything: Beat me to it.
Pop culture references aside, I. Love. This.
Now if we could only get someone in the Obama administration to share Mr. Leahy’s views. Now I want to go cavort in the Vermont winter.
Kev-O-Tron: “BUT HE KEPT US SAFE SINCE 9/11!!!!1!1
Unless you’re a US soldier, that is.”
Or the recipient of an anthrax letter. I hate that the “Thank-You W” nuts always leave out the anthrax deaths.
SayItWithWookies: Yeah, no electricity…except for when troops are electrocuted by substandard KBR wiring.
I’m missing Vermont today!
Leahy: “Fuck him, he’s less popular than an onset explosive diarrhea while you’re in the car out in West Texas like 100 miles away from any bathroom.”
Why was hardly anyone saying that stuff when they were in power? Hmph.
Kev-O-Tron: Only people with Bush Derangement Syndrome are sad about dead US soldiers.
Gorillionaire: Indeed. Also, do you people know that Senator Leahy is appx. seven feet tall? A couple of years ago I saw him at the airport in Burlington — the man is fucking enormous. No question he could waste Cheney’s crippled ass.
Advocatus_Diaboli: You beat me to the punch on the anthrax attack, but I will add the bombing of our allies in the UK and Spain.
Safe as long as you are specific in which domestic attacks you count and your national security interests don’t have a concept of allies.
Kev-O-Tron: Or a Brown Person. Or a resident of New Orleans (could be rolled into “brown people”).
Simplification: Bush has protected everyone who isn’t brown or military (browns and poor whites).
Further Simplification: Bush has protected all rich white people. Yep, sounds about right.