A Common Thread

TIME did a “10 Questions” interview with Lynne Cheney, why I don’t know. For a vice president who has tried his damnedest to stay out of the public’s eye, preferring to run his political machinations from some undisclosed location, who knows or cares what his wife has to say?

Surprise. Turns out his wife has no criticisms, whatsoever, of this administration. If you know what you are doing is the “right thing” to do, and you know “where you are going,” then, apparently, it doesn’t matter if somebody else’s kids have to pay for your botched war. We have been “safe” for six years because Bush and Cheney have doggedly adhered to their ideological beliefs.

Mrs. Cheney is an historian? Seems they grew up in small town America (read fly-over hicks), but how do you become a writer, historian and second lady and be so out of touch with reality?

There is a common thread running throughout the fabric of all the tales the right-wing weaves. Bush is gonna make some speeches, replenish the ol’ coffers, Cheney is going to have a cup of coffee and sit in her big leather chair at their Wyoming ranch in the Tetons, the surge is a success…OBLIVIOUS.