OUT DAMN SPOT

So, Darth Cheney was in a wheelchair for Obama's inauguration because he strained his back lifting boxes. Which made me wonder - what was in that box? What couldn't the movers, or his assistants, be allowed to handle? Could it be the documents that prove all the illegal and immoral actions he took in the last eight years? The heinous paper trail that only he must handle - like Jacob Marley's chains? I guess that explains why it was so heavy...

So I heard a story on NPR that said, while Cheney's approval rating nationwide was 12% (that high?), in his home state of Wyoming he enjoyed much higher polls. One guy they talked to explained that Cheney had done a lot of good for Wyoming. He steered legislation making it easier to drill for natural gas, and with high gas prices, Wyoming is having a little money boom. And that, my friends, is everything that has been wrong with America.

Who cares that Cheney tortured people he "suspected" of plotting against us? Who cares that he's reduced our standing in the world and we will have, from now on, less authority to demand others to act better? Who cares that gas and oil hit ridiculous highs, pumping millions into enemy coffers (and Bush and Cheney's pockets) while millions of newly unemployed are wondering how to pay those high prices for heat in a bitterly cold winter? These "Americans" who believe that all this evil is worthwhile because they got some money out of it, need to start washing the blood off those bills. Out damn spot. This is the price we put on human suffering and the weakening of our ideals? Was it enough money to balance the decades of toil it will now take to restore the world's faith in us? This guy from Wyoming actually thinks that all this weakening of America was worth a few extra dollars in his pocket? He may claim to be from the "real America" but the sooner he takes a lesson from the wealth-spreading, high-minded, equality-for-all liberals will he understand that while "my god can beat up your god" may be a stupid reason to do evil in the world -- a few more pictures of dead presidents is an even worse reason. Our ideals are worth more than that.