Ah, go fuck yourselves. All of you. Where's my shotgun.

"It’s important to note that in other industries, such as the housing industry, there are strict regulations and inspections at every step of the process. It is appalling that off shore regulations are not even equal to the housing industry, where cement footings have to be inspected before framing can proceed. While this may seem shocking, one needs only to ask themselves if the small business building industry had friends like Cheney or indeed, if Cheney was a stock holder of your small business home builder to understand why the standards are different.

Remember this the next time Republicans talk about how deregulation is good for the little guy, the mom and pop business owner. That is a fallacy, used to sell a corporatist agenda to the Main Streeters. Deregulation lines the pockets of the wealthy. Only the super wealthy can afford to buy off officials and buy off responsibility once the pseudo investigations begin. Your small business owner would be crushed under the weight of the lawsuits filed against him or her if he or she failed to regulate him or herself and caused so much destruction. Reasonable regulations actually HELP businesses, provided they are implemented and overseen. The only folks who benefit from no regulation are those who can afford to get the government to bail them out when they fail due to deregulation.

So, again, the next time a modern day Conservative justifies this sort of tragedy by saying you can’t regulate a free market or stop all “accidents”, remind them that this is NOT a free market. The government is bailing out all of the sectors that the Republicans deregulated. That is not a free market, it is literally socializing the downside of business. In a free market, those companies would be left to fail. As for the argument that you can’t stop all “accidents”, this was not an accident. This was preventable, at many stages along the way, before it became a tragedy. An accident is something you have no control over and can not prepare for.

This was not an accident. "

"Who's to blame for the oil spill? Dick Cheney

The fingerprints of the worst vice-president ever are all over the environmental catastrophe

By Alex Pareene

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill could end up being the worst American man-made environmental catastrophe of this generation. With the oil still spilling and investigations into the causes yet to come, it's too early to neatly assign blame to any one person. But for now, let's hold Dick Cheney personally responsible for the whole thing.

Here's the evidence: The Wall Street Journal reports that the oil well didn't have a remote-control shut-off switch. The reason it didn't have a thing that it seems every single offshore drilling rig should have? According to environmental lawyer Mike Papantonio, it's because Dick Cheney's energy task force decided that the $500,000 switches were too expensive, and they didn't want to make BP buy any.

Is that not enough reason to blame the former Dark Lord of the Naval Observatory? Guess what: Halliburton is involved, too! The Los Angeles Times reports that BP contracted Dick Cheney's old company to cement the deepwater drill hole. Cementing the hole was, according to the U.S. Minerals Management Service, "the single most-important factor in 18 of 39 well blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico over a 14-year period." And Hallburton is already under investigation for faulty cementing in an Australian well last year.

The spill will very likely destroy the fragile economies of at least five states and it could even plunge the nation back into a recession. So thanks, Dick. Nice work."

Dick Cheney "experiencing discomfort." Well, it's a start . . .

I've always wondered if cyborgs felt pain when their power supplies run out. Guess Dick needs a new EveryReady Lithium?

What kind of back door deals does Cheney have with the oil companies?

Oh that's easy -- he makes deals, we take it in the back door.

No Freddy, he's describing the amount of respect he had for the Geneva Convention.

No, it's how much he cares about the Gulf, and its people.

Is he describing the size of his penis there? That would certainly explain a lot...

Die, die painfully, die slowly.

@farkas -- we're angry and we have every right to be. Our antipathy towards him is individual, not tribalistic. Try again.

Come to think of it, when Cheney has these quarterly heart attacks, why doesn't he just go to the nearest emergency room (aka PalinCare)?

Wow, you people are really hateful. Too bad he's white or I could call you racist like all the Obama sheeple do on a daily basis.

Hopefully before he drops to hell he realizes that he can't take all of his money with him and he's irrevocably fucked up the world. Or someone could just stick needles up his dick until he bleeds out.

If not feeling well is the criterion I would have been hospitalized the day he was put into office.

Article Two of the U.S. Constitution lays out the job responsibilities of the President. He heads the Executive Branch of the government, executing the laws passed by Congress. He acts as Commander in Chief of the armed forces. He can (with the advice and consent of the Senate) make treaties. He can make judicial, ambassadorial, and administrative appointments. He is required to address Congress and give them the State of the Union.

That’s it, folks.

When We The People quit expecting the POTUS to be in charge of everything, this country will be a whole lot better off.

funny!

the right understands some words in the constitution, but don't understand ETHICS, HUMAN RIGHTS, or basic Justice. Basically Ignore the rest of the world and any legal system that is not in favor of the RIGHT corporatist agenda!

" Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday. - In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: "What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made. - "Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences." - Mr Wilkerson said former president George H.W. Bush "one of the finest presidents we have ever had" understood how to make foreign policy work. In contrast, he said, his son was "not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either"."

he and his buddies from halliburton should go for a swim in the gulf. A fitting end to a worthless, greedy life.

If he suffers in agonizing pain for three or four days solid, then shits himself and dies, it still wouldn't be punishment enough for the damage this scumbag has done to our nation, our world and all our futures. He should die in a prison hospital surrounded by his fellow war criminals and a guard who uses his mouth as a toilet. That would approach justice. Hopefully, while Cheney's in the hospital, someone gets his charts mixed up with a dog's and schedules him for castration.

he should die by OIL INGESTION!

like the defenseless creatures in the gulf!