Can this shot of Vice President Cheney from President Bush's press conference denouncing the Democrat-passed war appropriations bill be described as any less than creepy as all hell?

Is there any shot more emblematic of what's really been going on ever since he stopped doing an executive search for GWB's running mate, and decided that he himself was the best choice for Bush to hire for the spot on the ticket. Yes, remember, Dick Cheney nominated himself Vice President.

Here's a great still of the same shot in the New York Times. Spooky, spooky stuff.

The fact that he's out of hiding near the President (they are rarely photographed in the same place at the same time) may indicate fear, a need to bolster against this first real threat to their bloodletting powers. At the very least it indicates a previously unimaginable concern in response to Harry Reid's legislative display of resolve (yesterday's post).

This is the defining fight of our times. If Bush were a real CEO at a real major corporation instead of a play-president c.e.o., he'd have fired by his Board of Directors in 2004. The criminal decision to go to war in Iraq, the wanton selling of the war, the ruinously corrupted administration of the initial post-war period, the de-facto collapse of governing authority in the ensuing (and current) Civil War period... He's only credible to the reptilian part of the human brain, and only a corner of that anymore.

Whatever he may say, aside from vouching for his own intransigence, he's to blame for his own reputation for lying. It's not sad, it's dangerous. The surge is a joke. The death toll is up another 15% in Baghdad.

Nice to know Dick is waiting for him in the shrubbery.

Oh, and people hate him. He's Kryptonite. He can't even go to a baseball game.


Crossposted to Nettertainment.