Cheney, Cheney, Cheney

I guess Cheney has decided the best way to reduce attacks on W is to paint a big target on himself. Taking Supreme Court Justices on hunting trips and to dinner is the kind of bad form they teach against in Managment 101 — “perception is reality”. Even though we all know Scalia is possibly the most extreme of conservative “hang ‘em high” judges and he’ll side with this adminstration when they proclaim the government should have the right to put GPS tracking devices in every citizen’s bunghole, Cheney should know that this kind of activity would look suspicious to the public. Then again, he knows how much he’s got away with so far, maybe he’s seeing if he can get away with more. He’ll probably release a statement declaring these tete-a-tete’s are actually about increasing impartiality not the other way around. It certainly seems unethical, but I’d like to hear from our two L.A. Lawyers.

While he’s laughing at the U.S. public over his whole wool/eyes dance, his former company is paying about $6,300,000 to the pentagon for “overcharges by a subcontractor that is accused of giving kickbacks to supply U.S. soldiers in Iraq”. Business as usual.

Posted by etrigan at January 24, 2004 10:09 PM