Too Progressive

This whole thing is nothing more than a political stunt to allow congressional Republicans to put some distance between themselves and the Bush administration before the November elections.  Republicans in Congress met with Dick Cheney yesterday on Capitol Hill for the first time since the build up to the Iraq war, only this time they basically told him to get lost.  Imagine that.  Republicans telling Cheney to take a hike?  That’s a first.  Not only that, but they went out of their way to make it known that they gave Cheney the cold shoulder.  Why?  Because now they can go back to their districts and make the argument to constituents that they are not in bed with the Bush administration.  They’re going to try and make the argument that it was the “tax and spend liberals” who spent $700 billion in tax payer money to bail out irresponsible gamblers on Wall Street.

And the Democrats are falling for it!!

UPDATE: This scandal is now providing John McCain with an excuse to skip out on Friday night’s debate so he can sit in Washington and do nothing.  If it’s such an “emergency” how come John McCain found time to speak in New York today?  How come Republican Senator Orren Hatch told Chris Matthews today that he’s seen John McCain in Washington exactly “…maybe a couple of times in the past few months.”

This is ridiculous.

Posted on September 24th, 2008