Shame of Wyoming

A freely available OPINION

It's high time for Vice-President Cheney to hang up his spurs

By The Cowboy Picayune-Sunny Times Editorial Board

Filed 6.26.07

“Great liars are also great magicians,” Hitler once boasted in cold blood while making Jews vanish by the millions.

“Liars are always most disposed to swear,” the Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri swore between acts.

“Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived,” the Swedish philosopher Sissela Bok proffered before fading into obscurity.

“Go f*ck yourself,” Vice-President Dick Cheney, Wyoming’s infamous son, told Patrick Leahy, the distinguished Senator from Vermont, after getting the third-degree over Halliburton’s magical sole-source contracts in Iraq during a Congressional photo-op in 2004.

In true form, the exchange occurred on the same day the Senate passed legislation described as the “Defense of Decency Act” by 99 to 1.

(Click & Read on courtesy of NewWest.net)