Dick Cheney’s inexplicable control

March 8, 2006

By any reasonable standard, Vice President Dick Cheney is not a popular guy. A recent CBS News poll pegged his favorability rating at a stunning 18%, and his approval rating is mired in the same doldrums as the president. For that matter, Cheney will soon retire from politics altogether, he’s been involved in multiple scandals (including a criminal investigation), and a recent accident made him something of a national laughingstock. These are not the hallmarks of a powerful national leader.

And yet, as Dan Froomkin noted today, Cheney still seems able to call the shots with Republicans on the Hill.

Faced with the frightening prospect of public hearings and active Congressional oversight into President Bush’s contested domestic spying program, the White House sent out its big dog — Vice President Cheney — to bring straying moderate Republicans to heel.

Indeed, no matter what you have may have heard lately, the fact is that Cheney is still the Bush Administration’s most ferocious warrior. Never mind the rumpus about his initial refusal to tell anyone — even Bush — that he shot someone while hunting in Texas. Disregard those reports of tensions between the vice president’s office and, well, pretty much everyone else at the White House.

Cheney took point in the White House effort to quash a full-blown investigation into the program. And the guy still gets the job done.

Unfortunately, that seems undeniable. The New York Times noted today that it was Cheney who personally leaned on wavering Republican senators and pushed the Senate Intelligence Committee to give up on the idea of reviewing the administration’s warrantless-search program.

The whole dynamic is counterintuitive. As Bush’s and Cheney’s national support falters, lawmakers who were once inclined to follow the White House’s lead should realize that they no longer have any incentive to take these marching orders. This is particularly true of GOP incumbents up for re-election this year. The White House doesn’t have any leverage — what’s Cheney going to tell Olympia Snowe, that he won’t campaign with her in Maine?

Cheney must have some incriminating files on these guys because there’s no logical reason for them to go along with his demands.

Paul Craig Roberts says here that “the Bush administration is now using blackmail obtained through illegal spying on American citizens to silence the media and the opposition party.”

Roberts is a conservative-turned-Bush-hater. Whether he has any specific information or not, I don’t know … but what we’re sitting fits the theory.

  • “… what’s Cheney going to tell Olympia Snowe, that he won’t campaign with her in Maine?”

    One billion dollars. You got it, you can buy Sen. Snowe, too.

    She’s a whore, but she’s not a cheap whore.

  • As they used to say, back in the day, “No shit, Sherlock.”

    I’ve believed for years now that the only way Republican Congress has held together so tightly on so many, many repugnant issues is from simple blackmail. And why in the world would that be an unlikely scenario?

    Abramoff alone has amply demonstrated the depths to which they will sink, as individuals. For that matter, is it unreasonable to suppose that someone who taps phones & electronic networks, and claims the power to “disappear” citizens without oversight, would NOT quail at a little judicious blackmail in a “worthy” cause?

    I’m not stating Bush himself is doing this. Just the machine…

  • They have a choice – they can vote with the Administration – or Cheney invites them to go quail hunting with him. Easy decision.

  • I think that both sides, left and right are using quotes from ole’ Ben Franklin. We all know the quote that the left uses:

    “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

    The quote that Dick Cheney and Karl Rove keep repeating on the right appears to be:

    “We must hang together, gentlemen…else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.”

    As prosecutors begin to pick off the low hanging fruit and work their way up the tree the accuracy and aplicability of that quote become more and more obvious.

  • Cheney is simply a thug. He is a kneebreaker. I think he more likely than not threatened to have federal funds withheld from their states if they did not tow the line. We have seen this time and again. Remember Dilullo and Univ. of Penn. and the over the weekend turn-around under pressure from Penn’s administration? Cheney just threatens people in no uncertain terms. He is nothing more than a low class thug who happens to have a lot of power right now. B.

  • Of COURSE Cheney has a hold over them… After all, he has already proven that he would shoot a close friend in the face. Imagine what he would do to a mere political acquaintance…

  • Dude, the guy plays some serious political hardball. You do not want to go up against evil and power at the same time and he has both in spades. Remember, he learned the dark arts from Tricky Dick a long time ago and had years during the 90s to hatch his plans and revenge, while collecting treasure and bitterness. Evil incarnate is what we are dealing with here. You can see it all over his sneering face.

  • enforcer according to the OED:

    2. slang (orig. U.S.). One who enforces his will by violence and intimidation; a strong-arm man, esp. in an underworld gang.

  • Bribery (for whores) or blackmail (for crooks and cowards). Or both.

    Almost makes you want give up any interest in politics and collect tea cups or hand guns or something.

  • Cheney’s brewing up a storm
    And he wants me to conform
    Says he’s going to have his way
    Or else he says I’ll dearly pay.

    Oh those beady eyes and twisted smile,
    Who dares taunt this crocodile?

  • I believe Apikoros has it right: these guys believe in party above all else. Their precious majority is more important to them than truth, dignity or the Constitution.

  • This should put the kibosh on the “Moderate Republican” meme. As someone has said, there are no Moderate Republicans, there are only Scared Republicans, i.e., the ones who have to face the voters this November, knowing that their constituents are beginning to tumble to Dear Leader’s various shell games and aren’t happy.

    Check to see who buckled to Ol’ Deadeye; we’ll probably find they’re either not up in ’06 or are in a REALLY safe seat.

  • Cheney can be strong because those he seeks to influence are weak or they were insincere in their flirtations with supporting an investigation or both. If OSnowe really wanted to do the right thing, she could have. She could have stood up and said “I have been threatened with X or Y or Z if I did not vote against an investigation of domestic surveillance programs by a committee on which I sit. I have decided that it is time to do the right thing and expose the threats and see where the investigation leads.” I grew up in Maine, and Mainers tend to possess streaks of quirky and stubborn independence about principles. I think they would have baked Snowe if she had shown some back bone. And, I think other people who possess streaks of quirky, stubborn independence in other parts of the country would also be turned off by threats made to thwart a Congressional investigation. But, there is risk in taking a stand, it takes political courage, and I don’t see a lot of it manifesting itself in D.C. these days.

  • Yes, I think there’s something screwy going on — and don’t exclude files and knee-breaking. Too many people (Snowe among them) whom I’ve known in the past to be decent and courageous are cowering. It won’t particularly illuminate this point, but there’s a good piece in the latest New Yorker about Cheney. Go to New Yorker, Talk of the Town, Hendrik Hertzberg.

  • Cheney didn’t stop this one. Just in from AP:

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel dominated by Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to block a Dubai-owned firm from taking control of some U.S. port operations in an election-year repudiation of President Bush.

    By 62-2, the Appropriations Committee voted to bar DP World, run by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, from holding leases or contracts at U.S. ports. Bush has promised to veto any such measure passed by Congress, but the vote underscored widespread public opposition to the deal and the GOP’s fears of losing its advantage on the issue of national security in this fall’s elections.

  • TuiMel, re: Snowe: my thoughts exactly.

    I think of Jimmy Stewart in Frank Capra’s MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. And I wonder, where is the Jimmy Stewart in decent people like Snowe or Hagel?

    But then I realize that we’re dealing vwith the wrong Frank Capra movie. We’re dealing with MEET JOHN DOE, a disturbing tale of power and demagogery which doesn’t even have a real ending, let alone a happy one. (In the end, Jimmy Stewart tries frantically to get the truth out, but his mic is cut by the political bosses, and abuse is heaped on him by the howling masses.)

    Apikoros, I will add another Ben Franklin quote to the mix: When a lady asked Franklin in 1787, “Dr. Franklin, what have you given us?”, Franklin replied, “A republic, madam…if you can keep it.”

    Never forget that Dick Cheney, aside from a brief stint in Congress, has never been an elected official — he’s almost never had to be accountable to the public. He’s spent most of his career as an appointed apparatchik in the Executive Branch, toiling for the odious (Nixon) and the ideological. When he headed Bush’s VP Search Committee in 2000, he picked himself as the person most qualified for the job. He’s spent his life involved with power, appreciating power, using power as a tool and a weapon, while never having to doubt, explain, self-examine, take account, or apologize. He states talking points, even ones that are brazen lies, with the smugness of someone who knows he is absolutely right. And while the public instinctively recoils, he doesn’t care, because he has the power.

  • Yeah, I definitely think there’s something along those lines going on, CB. We’ve heard about Rove doing stuff that’s on the same level. I think a lot of people can see someone like Cheney or Rove when he’s being decent and polite, and based on that, they doubt that the guy could be involved in any dirty stuff. The truth with their kind, though, seems to be that the dirty stuff is de rigeur. It’s so, so important for all Dems to realize that right now- that this is what’s going on under the table and ‘behind the scenes’ of all the news we read- because it’s not going to go away by itself. You have to think about things and think about problems as if these dirty means are a ready option available to the GOP at any moment.

    Dems should read Machiavelli, I think, not because I would suggest that they become Machiavellian– but rather because in order to survive, they have to at least understand what’s being done to them. And that’s just to ensure our party’s continuing survival; to say nothing of actually advancing an agenda!

  • That said, though, I also want to mention what shameless sucking up to Cheney the words of that WaPo article were. Give me a break, please!

  • JohnnyB wrote: We’re dealing with MEET JOHN DOE, a disturbing tale of power and demagogery which doesn’t even have a real ending, let alone a happy one. (In the end, Jimmy Stewart…

    It was Gary Cooper, not James Stewart.

  • Why does darth Cheney have power in the senate and not the house?
    Could it be that every house seat is up for the 06 elections?
    While those senators with distant elections senators can weather unpopular firestorms.

  • Why does darth Cheney have power in the senate and not the house?-kali

    I think you are are seeing in the House vote on the Dubai deal a consequence of the DeLay indictment.
    With the Senate today keep in mind that it is Cheney’s ass that is on the line with Snoopgate. He is up to his elbows in it and is very motivated to sweep everything under the rug.

    As far as the primary question goes, I’m not real sure how he does it.

  • When the Lumpen-Intelligentsia, presently charged with controlling the unfocused and free-floating base emotions governing the barely literate Democrat layabouts and payrollers, discovered how to spell the suffix, GATE, and append it to all essential acts of governance, the Democrat Party was able to cast away the last berthing-line attaching the Party to the Main, TRUTH. Veracity became unnecessary shortly before it became de trop, within Party Circles. Now Americans are asked to entrust their actual lives and livelihoods to a Party totally detached from reality. Voters who respond favorably to this siren’s lure will be known later as firm believers in the honesty and competence of the Conservative Tendency in America. They will be betting the odds~~ That there is at least enough resilience in the Republican Party to clean up, one more time, the domestic messes and the foreign running sores that Democrats’ vainglory, bluster, and ignorance will, as always, leave simmering in their wake.

  • “The bigger the lie, the more people believe it.”

    — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

    You know, I hestitate to compare the Bushies with Nazism because I’ve done a lot of research on the Third Reich. The Bushies and America are very different than Hitler and the Nazis. But I’m learning that certain aspects of the Third Reich and today’s American government are chillingly similar.

    I didn’t know until recently that there was significant resistance to the Nazi police state and the dismantling of the German judicial system. Some of the dissidents were major Nazis (such as Hans Frank who was hanged at Nuremburg). There were many others — judges, doctors, professors, etc. — who protested the new culture of bullying.

    Hitler and his followers simply stuck with their plan, which was racism and fear. They shoved dissidents out of the way and later murdered them.

    Again, I think it would take something major to turn American into a Fourth Reich, but the basic elements exist: disdain for the rule of law and a popular tendency to “go along” with whatever a persistent leader decides.

    Bush has used 9/11 as Hitler used Kristalnacht — as an excuse to do anything. The Germans bought it, and so are Americans now.

    Within the Nazi analogy, Bush reminds me of von Ribbentrop. Ribbentrop was nothing more than a weak figurehead who did Hitler’s bidding. Bush is a figurehead who has done the bidding of Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al.

  • What the **** did waumpuscat just say? Wielding archaic prose like it is a mantle of integrity does not impress anyone with a high-school education.
    I think he said that he likes fascists, that fascism is good, Democrats are not fascists, therefore they are not good.
    What messes are the Republicans going to clean?? Katrina??? Enron?? Iraq?? Deibold voter fraud?? The VP committing treason?? Staging 9/11 to declare marshall law???Corporate contol of the government?? Trillions of dollars of debt for our children??
    I think waumpuscat would have had Paul Revere arrested for disturbing the peace.
    Revere was a terrorist to King George. Waumpuscat and his ilk are red-coat Torries.
    Liberal = free
    Conservative = regressive.
    I learnt dat in hi skool

  • I didn’t know what the phrase Lumpen-Intelligensia meant. So I did what I usually do, which is quite often, when I come across new words or phrases.

    Google gave some interesting responses for Lumpen-Intelligensia but I found the following one particularly interesting.

    Regarding a certain fetishized conception of theory, E.P. Thompson wrote (a quarter century ago) that it “has now lodged itself in a a particular social couche, the bourgeois lumpen-intelligentsia: aspirant intellectuals, whose amateurish intellectual preparation disarms them before manifest absurdities and elementary philosophical blunders, and whose innocence in intellectual practice leaves them paralyzed in the first web of scholastic argument which they encounter; and bourgeois, because while many of them would like to be ‘revolutionaries,’ they themselves are the products of a particular ‘conjuncture’ which has broken the circuits between intellectuality and practical experience (both in real political movements and in the actual segregation imposed by contemporary institutional structures), and hence they are able to perform imaginary revolutionary psycho-dramas (in which each outbids the other in adopting ferocious verbal postures) while in fact falling back upon a very old tradition of bourgeois elitism….”

    I think the above says it all much better than I could ever aspire to.

    Come on now wammpuscat. I know you’ve waiting all day to bestow us with your intellectual brilliance, but surely you can come up with a direct comment to this thread.

  • Oops — the first sentence in the above post needs to be amended to include I look them up.

    Note to self: Preview is my friend.

  • It’s not Cheney. It’s the bosses behind the Republican Political Machine. Find out who put Bush and Cheney in power and you will find out who is pulling the strings on the Republicans in the Congress. You can’t get re-elected, and your friends and children won’t get hired by the Republican connected corporations if you don’t toe the line.

    Ask Colin Powell.

  • The necessity to believe in wild and improbable conspiracies is always a sure indication that a Political Tendency, or in this instance an entire political party, has become so depraved and debased that any contact with reality has been rejected. Instead, the pent-up motives of revenge seething in the phantasies of the half-involved, enraged vanguard are projected onto the hated enemy, who keeps them from their pork-chopper jobs and bastions of power. Behold the Democrat Party of Jackson and Jefferson, reduced to weaving conspiracies out of the snippets of news that they consciously misunderstand and discharging their simple hatred in demonic tirades wherever they stand, without any thought for the health of the society that has nurtured them. Falsehood, their sword, duplicity, their shield, while brown is their banner. We’ve seen their sort off before.

  • Falsehood, their sword, duplicity, their shield, while brown is their banner.

    Why does waumpuscat keep confusing the GOP with the Demorcratic Party??

    Behold the Republican Party of Lincoln, reduced to pettiness and greedy for power. It will ensure that that government of the people, by the people, for the people, SHALL perish so that the party loyalists can rule over the Dominion and those who will not worship at their altar will starve and whither, as is their wont.

    Can I get an Amen, waumpus?

  • Know Your Trolls Update.

    II hope that this is the last in my series on the dynamic duo Bogie and Waumpuscat. Today I’d like to pass along what I know about Waumpuscat a.k.a. Claude, Bogie’s dad. First he hold’s a BA from Vanderbilt University where, as a student in the 40’s, he contributed to a publication called the Gadfly. The mission statement of the Gadfly was

    to prick people into thinking. As a magazine of broad ideas, it should serve as a
    medium for the interchange of ideas between students on the Vanderbilt campus and those on other campuses. It
    should encourage greater appreciation of the liberal arts and promote creative thinking.

    Iit would appear that late in his life Claude has reprised his sophomoric writing from his Vanderbilt days.( If CB has any reader in Nashville perhaps one of them could go over to Vanderbilt and trackdown some of Claude’s early writtings.)

    Today Claude lives in subsidized housing for the elderly and disabled in Cartersville, GA. As best as I can tell, he lives alone. It appears, although the evidence is not iron clad, that Bogie/Chuck lives with his mother, Claude’s ex-wife, in Missouri.

    Compare the reality of Claude’s existence with the high rhetoric of Waumpuscat,

    The United States Treasury is the Planet’s most productive Money Laundry. Money extorted as taxes from (mostly) productive working people is given to poor people in the form of United States Treasury Checks.

    When I finally pieced together Claude’s current state of affairs I felt sorry for him. But then I felt sorry for this Country because, as long as fools like this exist there will be a Republican party. If you want to help a lonely old man then go ahead and argue with Waumpuscat. I however will henceforth ignore him.

  • rege,
    So waumpuscat lives in SUBSIDIZED housing? You mean the taxes I pay go to keep a roof over his head, not to mention his Internet hookup? But isn’t that the kind of stuff that’s championed by Democrats?

  • Waumpuscat reminds me of my neighbors’s dog fenced in a pen all day long. . Barking at the wind, and the passing cars , or whatever small event happens by…. and then sometimes just barking for the sake of barking. .. hoping only for the joy of hearing some dog bark back.

  • rege — That is some pretty impressive investigative work, I don’t know how you pieced it all together. BTW how did you do that?

    You confirmed my suspicions about a connection between the two trolls. It just seemed too convenient that when one showed up the other followed. And geez, one of them lives in my home state. I could actually be neighbors with bogie, shudder.

    And lastly, since I have been one of the ones poking fun at ole wampus I will cease and desist.

  • Marcus, may I call you Marcus?, for my previous work on the Waumpuscat and Bogie do a google search: fill in the “with all of the words field” with rege and the “with at least one of the words field” with wauampuscat bogie. Select more results from Carpetbaggerreport.com.

    The key to my research was tracking down bogie’s postings at the The HighRoad.com, where he identified Waumpuscat as his father. He also posted an email to Hooters at that sight where he complained about their no concealed weapons policy. The letter contained his first and last names. (On a related note, I found on another site a letter from bogie to Cracker Barrel complaining about getting tossed out for packing.) With that in hand I was able to find a posting by waumpuscat where he gave his full name. This and Waumpuscat’s profile at Kos allowed me to track him down in GA. The kos profile also gave me the information about his BA from Vanderbilt. A search on his name at the Vanderbilt site gave me the Gadfly information.

    While bogies profile at TheHighRoad.com lists St.Louis as his home at another site he gave Wentzville, Mo as his home. There is a Chuck age 45, bogie’s first name and age, and a Charolette age 77 at the same address in Wentzville. This is why I suspect that he lives with his mother.

    For some real entertainment go peruse bogie’s postings at the HighRoad.com. They have a pretty good search engine.

  • Can ya blame Hooters? It’s been my experience that the guys who want to carry a concealed weapon are the exact person you DO NOT want to carry a concealed weapon.

  • NOTE TO MR CARPETBAGGER

    It appears a poster on YOUR forum has published the personal information of another without consulation or permission.

    If all the above is accurate, all here know the location of someone with whom most here have expressed intense feelings some bodering on hate.

    Should something happen to waumpuscat, YOU sir are responsible.

  • NOTE TO rege

    Issue your name and address here for all to see and I will arrange a meeting. Again, I am not Chuck but you will learn who I am.

    You sir are either very young and have not yet learned basic manners or you are completely amoral. You cannot discuss issues against waumpuscat so instead you chose the tried and true method of all your ilk, the politics of personal destruction. You have just shown all how low a liberal can sink. You are disgusting.

    Publish your personal information, I am dying to meet you.

  • Ahh rege… And the Waumpuscat, having volunteered to battle fascists in one era, is still capable of battling your ilk. Last I looked, many veterans of our greatest generation are residing in “subsidized” housing. What have _you_ done for the world lately? Other than whimper and whine, moaning about people who have achieved, while you are waiting for your “deserved” handouts?

    I happen to be rather proud of my father. His “subsidized” housing was “subsidized” by service – by years of his life. Try as you might, you ain’t gonna be able to beat that hand, so you may as well fold your cards, pick up the remains of your piggybank life savings, and slide toward the door.

    Rege, you, on the other hand, make me want to wash my monitor with repeated dosings of fresh tomato juice.

    And 2Manchu? Who would you rather have as a neighbor, or a customer? Someone who can get a concealed weapon permit, or someone who could not qualify for the permit?

    Our rege appears to be fairly paranoid. I,on the other hand, do not require that paranoia to get through life… Pretty much nothing worries the Bogie in the ‘Ville. The light of the right shines here, as you skulk and hide below your moss-covered stones. And I haven’t had to shoot anyone all week.

  • Bogieville,
    If you’re qualified to a concealed weapons permit, hey, that’s great. Bully for you. But why carry a concealed weapon into Hooters? Trying to impress the babes? And your question is like asking “who would you rather have on the road, someone with a driver’s license, or someone who flunked the written test?” Kind of silly, don’t you think?

  • Quite frankly, if someone doesn’t wish to have “my kind” as a customer, then I don’t really want to give them my business.

    Why carry a concealed weapon anywhere? The wings there are okay, but there have been other places that have popped up since that do decent takeout, so if I’m having folks over, I’ve got a choice as to where I go for the munchies. FWIW, I don’t buy pizza from Domino’s either. I don’t quite agree with their political stance, and would prefer to not fund them.

    Ah, but I digressed… Why carry a concealed weapon anywhere? You never know when you’ll need one, and as I learned from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, it’s better to have dope in times of no money, than money in times of no dope… Or something of that sort. And it applies to many other situations. Should I actually, Bob forbid, require use of a pocket-sized boomstick, and I do not have one available, then I’m not only up a certain creek with no means of propulsion, but there’s a tidal wave… er… tsunami approaching.

    Heck, I was a boy scout. I just like to be prepared. I’ve got a couple of fire extinguishers. I don’t _expect_ a fire, and have no intentions of becoming an amateur arsonist (well, except for when I cook breakfast when I have friends stay over – ever do bacon on a BBQ grill?), but if there is one, I’m gonna dump that red thing on it while I’m waiting for the guys with the big truck to mosey on over. With any luck, it’ll be out by the time they get here.

    Say I go to Bubba’s Wing Shack for a coupla dozen just before I hunker down in Bogie’s Bunker (er… I named it that a while back…) with some friends to watch the Rams embarrass themselves again… And some lowlifes decide to hold the place up while I’m inside. And then announce that they’re gonna kill everyone in the place so that we can’t ID ’em on the $283.48 that they just took out of the register. Should I whip out my trusty Verizon(tm) cell phone, ask the robbers to kindly be patient while I wander around to get a signal, than wait on hold, and then hope that I know the street address so that the dozy dispatcher may actually get it right the first time, and… Oh, darn, those pesky robbers just ran out of patience…

    Now, I do not _want_ to shoot someone. That tends to cause all sorts of legal hassles, bad dreams, and generally screws up one’s life. They can have the $283.48, just so long as they don’t get violent. That’s the sticking point. I do, however, like having the option available, because if given the option of continued existence or termination at the hands of some guy who is scared I’m gonna go to the hassle of drawing him because he stole $283.48 of someone else’s money… well… I may be a big wussie, but I sorta like living. If you do not wish to have the option available for yourself (you know, one of my guilty pleasures is that Jackass show – gee, the things that young ‘burbanite kids will do these days…), it’s a simple answer – just don’t get a permit and don’t carry. In the (somewhere over 37 – I’m not that much of a stats guy…) states that _do_ have permits available, you don’t see a lot of trouble. In the states that do not have permits or which have processes which favor cronyism… Well… Look at the crime rates in Washington DC, NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc., etc…

  • Oh yeah – on the subject of Hooter’s… I’m not particularly enamored of Barbie-dolls with bad pantyhose… I’m a red-blooded ‘merican boy, through and through, but I’ve known strippers who had more soul than the average Hooter’s waitress. And considering the average stripper, that’s saying something.

    You walk in the door, and you’re a dollar sign. That’s it. If you think anything else, that means you’re a bigger dollar sign. That’s just the way it is.

    Besides, what else are these girls who went through high school and college taking underwater basketweaving in-between cheerleading practices going to do? They may not be able to write a comprehensible report about it, but they sure can do math…

  • The Democrats and the Liberals, two peas in a pod, wallow in the insecurity and self-loathing created by their choice to hate. While one may say their comments regarding our President and Vice President show hatred, what I really mean by hatred is the hatred they show themselves and all others who the D/Ls view/label as “disadvantaged.” No one ever achieved greatness — personal or professional — by poor-mouthing themselves or adopting self-imposed separation due to differentness. They don’t get it: Great people lead and achieve while leading others to do the right thing. The Democrats and Liberals are just so petty and jealous sounding; it turns people off. If this offends you, you are my target audience. Being a Conservative is all about doing the right thing for America, not about the vainglorious hope that by passing a law people will magically do the right thing. And it is not about polling the voters to see if a position is popular.

    Finally, Wampuscat spends his weekends at the Opera and stays at a mansion in Atlanta. That is when he is not on the coast. The Right Coast, not the other one. And he has a Doberman.

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