It Was Cheney!

So this is what happens when one man achieves maximum power: blowout.

Cheney hand-picked Bush as his water-carrier, then hand-picked himself (through his proxies) as Bush's top adviser. Brilliant.

But then he set out to re-fight all the old Cold War battles he had witnessed since the days when he served at Nixon's pleasure.

And like a great Shakespearean tragedy, the seed of Cheney's downfall was sown from the very beggining. His power was only assured by getting in bed with the pro-Zionist neo-conservatives, whose ideological idiocy, along with his own burgeoning arrogance, would ultimately be his downfall.

Americablog demonstrates the gentle art of blogging.

Cheney is fucked (his words).

So here is the new best(*) case scenario: Cheney gets hauled off to prison in handcuffs, GOP appoints someone untainted by the scandal (if they can find someone like that in their own putrid ranks!), Rummy, Rove, Condi and all the other high-level scum are either arrested or resign, then Bush gets impeached for his own dim-witted participation.

The new GOP President remains embroiled in scandal for another three years, while the USA's "superpower" status becomes a global laughing stock. US voters finally kick the whole lot of them out in 2008, and the GOP sinks to the levels of Margaret Thatcher's once-proud Conservative Party in the UK.

Pride goeth ever before the fall.

* That's assuming there is no full-scale "Second American Revolution", which may of course be a far better thing in the long run.