Beware the Seed of Dicky!

On January 20, 2009, as the black-hatted Dick Cheney, looking like Mr. Potter’s really evil brother, was rolled away in his wheelchair to a waiting helicopter, the universe heaved a much-anticipated sigh of relief. The Destroyer of Worlds had finally been vanquished, sent back to the hellfires of Mount Doom from whence he had come. Sunrise had come to America! Peace could reign once again in our land! We were FREE!

Sigh.

For two weeks.  We were free for two lousy weeks.  After eight years of an occasional "GARRR!  TERRRRR!" issued from deep within his undisclosed location, Dick Cheney has been all over the airwaves trying to salvage his legacy, bashing Obama’s foreign policy, and leeching the lifeforce out of any positive feeling the country may currently enjoy. These days, he is often accompanied by his daughter, Liz (a/k/a the Straight One), whom Cheney had installed as his spy in the State Department during his eight-year Reign of Terrrrr.  Think of it as "Cheney in Stereo."

Today, however, Satan’s Spawn flew solo, now promoting thoroughly discredited assertions that Iraq was connected to Al Qaeda:

In an interview with NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell, Cheney insisted that her father had always disavowed the notion that there was a link between Iraq and al Qaeda and September 11th, while simultaneously suggesting that such a link was true.

Pardonez moi?  God help us, the apple really doesn’t fall far from that tree at all. 

Liz Cheney also vehemently criticized Obama’s efforts to redraw the Roadmap to Peace between Israel and Palestine. Convenient for her that she had repressed any of the details that State had hammered out, you know, while she was working there:

Cheney is right to note that the Road Map to Peace — negotiated while she served in the Bush administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs — “does talk about settlements.” But she apparently doesn’t recall that when the Road Map talks about settlements, it is in the context of clearly stipulating that the Israeli government must freeze all settlement expansion — “including natural growth.”

(To be fair, she would’ve been disowned if she had included ALL the salient facts. It’s not the Cheney Way.)

Darth has gone on record saying he thinks his daughter would make a great politician. Personally, I think this is a fabulous idea; in fact, be on television more often, Liz.  You are a chip off the old man-sized safe. Your campaign will provide bloggers with endless entertainment.

Get ready, America; I predict a sequel some time around November, 2010.

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