Say No to Sycophantism

I know a lot has been going around about how Dick Cheney doesn't really hate homosexuals, he just pretends to when he's running for national office. Well, his openly gay daughter Mary was on Fox News yesterday, and had the most wonderful things to say about him. Things like this:

WALLACE: I'm not saying it isn't. I would like to ask, and you're not here — and I'm going to get off this very quickly — to talk for your dad, but there's a balance that people are trying to draw here between national security on the one hand and civil liberties on the other. How do you think he draws that balance?
CHENEY: He's always been very clear that, you know, we need to follow the law. We need to make sure that what we're doing is legal. But he also makes it clear that we need to do whatever it takes to keep this country safe. [Full Transcript]

Now that's a WHOPPER of a contradiction if there was ever one. Rhetorically, the phrase "we need to do whatever it takes to keep this country safe" sounds very warm and fuzzy, but legally, and for very good reason, the Executive Branch or any other branch of the government simply CANNOT DO WHATEVER IT TAKES. The Bush team understands this perfectly well and continues to be subversive to the law of the land, and the only conclusion that can be reached from this is that this Administration has no regard for the preservation of American democracy. If you think subserversive to the law of the land is too strong a phrase, well, read Michael Vlahos' article in the American Conservative magzine illustrating just how close to empire this country has come.