Cheney addressing the latest attempt by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab to blow up an airliner in flight said in his acerbic statement:

He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.”

Cheney also said Obama outwardly “pretends we aren’t at war” and he repeated his months-long criticism that the new president has made America “less safe.”

Cheney also asked in his patented sardonic way:

Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency: social transformation, the restructuring of American society.”

Cheney seems to think we are at war with a state. Wrong. We are at war with an ideology. There are no western fronts to line up the artillery and blast them to smithereens, or unload the latest 30,000 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb on the communication center. Even Patton couldn’t pull this one off.

These guy’s communication center is a cave somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Cheney blasts the current administration for the exact same decision the Bush administration made with Richard Reid, you know, the shoe bomber? Bush was on vacation when that incident happened. 6 days later he made a comment.

Reid was tried, convicted and sentenced in Federal court. Same with Zacarias Moussaoui.

Apparently, Cheney doesn’t have any faith in a U.S. Justice Department when he is not pulling the strings. I guess he is also still pissed that Scooter Libby didn’t get off scott free.

Cheney is trying to put the Obama administration in as bad a light as he can so he hopes the public will forget just what deep shit the Bush administration (with his blessing, of course) put us in. Their administration drove us to the brink of financial insolvency, started a war with a country that had zero to do with the 9/11 attacks, and alienated the U.S. from all but our stanchest allies.  

9/11 happened on the Bush/Cheney watch. We should never forget that. They had the intelligence that Bin Laden was going to try something, but they sat on that. Then they blamed Iraq, and started that war and basically forgot about Afghanistan.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the official White House blog:

It is telling that Vice President Cheney and others seem to be more focused on criticizing the Administration than condemning the attackers…

For seven years after 9/11, while our national security was overwhelmingly focused on Iraq — a country that had no al Qaeda presence before our invasion — Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda’s leadership was able to set up camp in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they continued to plot attacks against the United States…

Meanwhile, al Qaeda also regenerated in places like Yemen and Somalia, establishing new safe-havens that have grown over a period of years. It was President Obama who finally implemented a strategy of winding down the war in Iraq, and actually focusing our resources on the war against al Qaeda…

Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the president.

Strangely off-key indeed. Turn in your U.S. lapel pin Mr. Cheney. If you think our government isn’t doing all that’s humanly possible to protect you, then leave. Your vitriolic partisan bullshit is no longer relevant.

Well, here is the latest version of the aforementioned resolution in all its resplendent glory, with my observations notated in-line, bolded & italicized:

Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed that the Republican Party should support and espouse conservative principles and public policies; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan also believed the Republican Party should welcome those with diverse views [Except for those that don't agree with us]; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend [Just not as good a friend who agreed with 10 out of 10 times ], not his opponent; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies and Republican solidarity in opposition to Obama’s socialist agenda is necessary to preserve the security of our country, our economic and political freedoms, and our way of life [That is if our health care holds out ]; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies is necessary to restore the trust of the American people in the Republican Party [By keeping our collective penises in our pants] and to lead to Republican electoral victories; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee shares President Ronald Reagan’s belief that the Republican Party should espouse conservative principles and public policies and welcome persons of diverse views [Except for those that don't agree with us]; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee desires to implement President Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates [Read: you better agree with us]; and

WHEREAS, in addition to supporting candidates, the Republican National Committee provides financial support for Republican state and local parties for party building and federal election activities, which benefits all candidates and is not affected by this resolution [Except for those that don't agree with us]; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill [Except for fact that Bush signed off on the 1st stimulus package, cause well, we were dying out there at the time.];

(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare [Because the market did such a great job with the banking and financial industries];

(3) We support market-based energy reforms[Because the market did such a great job with the banking and financial industries] by opposing cap and trade legislation;

(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check [Because we like secret in general];

(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants [Except for those that perform the menial labor tasks so we can eat];

(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges [Man, we love that word - surge. Just makes you feel, well, virulent - Hey, penises in the pants!];

(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat [Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran...you know how the rest goes];

(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act [Because homosexual activity should be kept where it belongs - in the public restrooms of the Minneapolis Airport];

(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion [Because the market will take care of it]; and

(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership [Because Dick Cheney says so...QUAIL! PULL!]; and be further

RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy positions of the Republican National Committee, as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee;[And will be subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques personally by Dick Cheney] and be further

RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, as they become known, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.

Chief Sponsor:
James Bopp, Jr. NCM IN

Sponsors:
Avie Axdahl NCW MN
Donna Cain NCW OR
Cindy Costa NCW SC
Demetra Demonte NCW IL
Peggy Lambert NCW TN
Carolyn McLarty NCW OK
Pete Rickets NCM NE
Steve Scheffler NCM IA
Helen Van Etten NCW KA
Solomon Yue NCM OR

So let it be written, so let it be done.