Cheney Family Torture Values... er, Values Torture

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http://www.progressivepuppy.com/the_progressive_puppy/2009/05/the-cheney-family-torture-values-er-values-torture.html

Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz have brought burlesque to the talk show circuit, defending the use of torture like, well, like one of their lives depended on it. This recent exercise in pro-enhanced interrogation publicity has apparently paid dividends. snip

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes: For the final act of his too-long public career, Cheney seems to have decided to become an Old Faithful of self-serving nonsense. His latest in a series of eruptions came Sunday on "Face the Nation," when he continued to press his revisionist case for torture - and, for good measure, counseled his beloved Republican Party to marginalize itself even further from public opinion and common sense.

Earlier this week, Robinson appeared alongside Liz Cheney on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Crooks and Liars' David Neiwert describes the segment: It quickly devolves into crosstalk, and Cheney spends a lot of time filibustering with her talking points, but she never is able to effectively respond to Robinson's chief point: Legal paperwork is not adequate cover for committing torture, one of the most heinous of all crimes.

I watched that debate - although perhaps "debate" isn't the best way to describe a verbal exchange in which one participant uses reason and the other whoops like a howler monkey. Robinson was patient and persistant, Liz Cheney was aggressive and peevish. Darth's daughter didn't respond to Robinson's main argument because it fell beyond the scope of the Republican storyline, which is: Torture is good for the USA - but don't call it torture. And, if we don't torture these suspects we'll all die.

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1. there's something sadistic about the Cheney family

must be in the genes