Friday, April 13, 2007

The unmitigated gall

Dick Cheney, the dude put in the White House by a margin of 537 votes in Florida in 2000 -- and that's after losing the popular vote and without a Florida recount -- said today in Chicago:

for the first time since 1995 the Democratic Party now controls both the House and the Senate. It was, in retrospect, a narrow victory. A shift of only 3,600 votes would have kept the Senate in Republican hands, and a shift of fewer than 100,000 votes would have maintained Republican control of the House of Representatives.

Incidentally, accompanying Dick on a transparently partisan visit to a convention of true believers (the Heritage Foundation), Dick did an opening shout-out to his favourite political operative: his daughter Liz ("My daughter, Liz, is traveling with us today. (Applause.)"), one-time overseer of a huge neocon slush fund, and now an occasional contributor to the "liberal" Washington Post.

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