I'm in a hotel while visiting my family in Waverly, NY. The older I get the more I find myself drawn to the Susquehanna and Chemung Rivers which run by the east and west sides of the village. "Two rivers" is an image that underlies a fair amount of what I write and think.
Back to politics, the Washington Post has an article on the concentration of power in Dick Cheney's office over the last six years. But they failed to mention that Dick Cheney is one of the major reasons why the Bush administration has been such a failure and why they'll leave office as perhaps the most reviled administration in American history. Cheney has generally escaped comparisons to other VP's but I believe that history will look at him as the worst vice-president since Aaron Burr.
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Worse than even Spiro T. Agnew?
Worse than Sprio T. Agnew!! Deadly.
Agnew was a ham and egger compared to Cheney. In many ways, Cheney is a compelling figure. However, the initiatives he's taken in the have been disastrous. His deception campaign to justify the invasion, the indefinite detention policy, the torture program, extraordinary rendition, government secrecy have all detracted from the war on terror and worked against the legitimate interests of American government. Cheney attempted to leverage the 9-11 attacks into a new form of authoritarian government in the United States. Cheney's failed in that enterprise, but he's still done enormous harm.
ON OPEN GOVERNMENT
The secrecy of government
Did ne´er before present
So dire a problem as today,
But of what scope? No one can say!
The secrecy and subterfuge
Is hid, the problem huge--
Yet no one seems as bothered yet
Assessing not the shocking threat.
Did ever this democracy
And nation "of the free"
Have such a class as this before
Shamming a case to go to war?
Furtive, deceptive, truly traitors,
Ever dissimulators,
A nation ought to fear and tremble
Before the lies that they dissemble.
But, O, "I am a Christian" goes
The party cant of those
So busy treading on the toes
Of innocents, as "terror" grows.
Terror is part of life; get used
To it--but feel enthused
About the open government
That our forefathers built and meant.
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