Nasty Little Man

Cheney hostile to democracy

As if the PATRIOT Act, warrantless surveillance, the fixing of elections in FL and OH, torture, and the end of habeas corpus didn't already show the administration's hostility toward representative democracy, Darth Cheney's answer to a George Stephanopoulos question surely further illustrated it:

(The war) may not be popular with the public. It doesn't matter in the sense that we have to continue the mission and do what we think it right, and that's exactly what we're doing. We're not running for office, we're doing what we think it right.

In other words, we only care about what the public thinks when we have to run for (re-)election. Once we've run our last race, we cease representing the people.

And a wag of the finger for G-Steph for not leaping on him for that.

posted by Kinder Gentler Little Man @ 10:41 AM