Vice President Cheney was in Utah today, fund-raising for John Swallow's Congressional race there. As usual Cheney presumed upon the stupidity of the American people by critizing Kerry and Edwards for having voted against the $87 billion appropriations bill for the Iraq War and the War on Terror in Afghanistan. He said that he and Bush have made troop support a national priority.

Okay my fellow idiots... let's see if we can reason our way thru this growing pile of BS. Vote against military spending and you're a bad guy who can't defend this country. We would have to assume from this line of "logic" that speaking against military funding would be equally disqualifying.

Oh... but wait a second. Didn't Congressman Cheney criticize President Reagan's defense spending? Yes he did! And didn't Congressman Cheney call for deep cuts in defense spending? Yes he did! And didn't Secretary of Defense Cheney follow thru on that theme by cutting billions of dollars out of the defense budget? Yes he did!

In 1990, Cheney bragged to Congress that as Defense Secretary he "cut almost $65 billion out of the five-year defense program" and that subsequent proposals would "take another $167 billion out." He highlighted, "we're recommending base closures," "we're talking about force structure cuts" and "we've got a military construction freeze"[Congressional Testimony, 2/1/90]. Dick Cheney, Vice Flip-Flopper In Chief

Ma... hand me them hip waders. It's gettin' awefully deep in here. It smells to high heaven too.