CAN I GET SOME TEXAS CHILI WITH THAT PEPPER?

When Richard Nixon was president, he and his sociopath National Security Advisor, Kissinger, intentionally established a policy of emphasizing Nixon’s emotional instability and recklessness as a gambit to intimidate and alarm his adversaries in North Viet-Nam and Moscow.

Cheney, who was a subordinate of Donald Rumsfeld and protégé of Nixon, seems to have picked up a few pointers from his old boss.

To paraphrase a hackneyed old slogan of the National Rifle Association, “Guns don’t shoot people, homicidal morons shoot people.” I always maintained that the Republicans were a bunch of murderous psychotic twits, and Cheney has kindly illustrated my point more succinctly than any words I could ever write on this page.

Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. With the revelation that Lewis Libby has flipped and fingered Cheney as the puppet master in the Valerie Plame leaks, this “hunting accident” may be interpreted as a not-too-subtle message to Libby to shut the hell up, or else.

The fact that this weirdo Cheney has his tentacles deep in the nation’s intelligence apparatus may also transmit signals of alarm to members of Congress and even Bush himself, who will certainly think twice about jettisoning Cheney in the event that the Plame affair burns too close to the White House. Remember, Libby’s testimony before the grand jury indicated that he was directed by his “superiors” – plural – to leak Valerie Plame’s name to the press. Now, if Libby was Cheney’s chief of staff, how many other persons besides Cheney were superior to him? Only one that I can think of – Bush!

What’s really funny about this is that the man Cheney shot, an Austin, TX, attorney with high Republican connections, was appointed by then-governor Bush to the Texas Funeral Service Commission. If the guy croaks, he can regulate his own funeral ha-ha!

Right away, the Republicans went into their manipulative word game-playing mode, referring to the incident as Cheney “peppering” the guy. Where do they come up with this shit?!!! See, Cheney didn’t shoot him in the face at point-blank range with a twelve-gauge shotgun, he “peppered” him. “It broke the skin,” said Katherine Armstrong, the owner of the ranch where the shooting place, in the understatement of the century. “I’ve been peppered myself,” she joked.

The joke’s on us. If you had any misgivings about the nature of the clowns in control of the country, this should really crystallize them. It’ll be interesting to see how the administration of justice in Texas, which has a notorious reputation for unbendingly strict interpretation of the law, decides to handle the hot potato of prosecuting the man who gives Bush his marching orders. They let Cheney fly back to Washington without even questioning him.

I know what would the consequences would be if it happened to be me who shot the man in the face with a shotgun, a long freakin’ jail term and a civil lawsuit.

The great American writer, Louis L'Amour, writing specifically about Texas, observed that the country was not built exclusively by virtuous, hard-working people, but also by thieves, outlaws and villians as well. Certainly, the owners of the 50,000 acre ranch where the shooting took place didn't obtain it by virtue of the sweat of their brows. Funny things happen in Texas. Ask Kennedy.

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