Mental Health Break

One can get fried trying to sustain these things, blogs. Is why the more successful ones -- Kos, Firedog, MyDD, etc. -- come at you in teams. Poor me, is only I here. And madness comes when you have something to say while you're driving, and have since forgotten once you've sat your butt before the keyboard. But oh well! Hope your weekend was a good one.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Josh Marshall is never more eloquent:

But as we go from the mastication of the shooting event itself to the meta story about Dick Cheney's dark and dangerous shadow presidency, let's not let one salient fact disappear down the memory hole.

Even if Dick Cheney is blameless in this matter in any deep moral sense, let's not forget that his immediate reaction was to send out his surrogates to publicly blame what happened on the victim.

Actually, that may afford him too much credit since it wasn't actually his 'immediate' reaction. It was his considered reaction after the 24 hour cooling off period he gave himself between the shooting and when he chose to make it public.

By my count, he continued to have his public surrogates blame Whittington for fully three days. He only relented and took responsibility himself when the public and no doubt
private political clamor became too much to sustain.

That's Dick Cheney.

Fersherr... !!