{"id":198597,"date":"2007-10-25T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/25\/modo-calls-cheney-crazy\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T03:37:00","slug":"modo-calls-cheney-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/25\/modo-calls-cheney-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"MoDo Calls Cheney Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that she intends it as allegory, but I believe that Dick Cheney is actually nuts&#8230;.Delusional&#8230;Batsh%$ insane.  He is so confinced of his power, or more accurately the power of the US military-industrial complex, to do anything, including sewing a button on a fart.<\/p>\n<p>Worked great in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Insanity is doing something over, and over again, exactly the same way, and and expecting a different outcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/24\/opinion\/24dowd.html?em&amp;ex=1193457600&amp;en=b3adea3dc186bd8c&amp;ei=5087%0A\">Her essay<\/a> is a good, if catty<sup>*<\/sup> read, and this time, for once, there is a point at the end:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> As Pat Buchanan noted on \u201cHardball,\u201d \u201cCheney and Bush are laying down markers for themselves which they\u2019re going to have to meet. I don\u2019t see how &#8230; Bush and Cheney can avoid attacking Iran and retaining their credibility going out of office.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">In other words, once our cowboys have talked their crazy talk, they have to walk their crazy walk.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>Like everything she writes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that she intends it as allegory, but I believe that Dick Cheney is actually nuts&#8230;.Delusional&#8230;Batsh%$ insane. He is so confinced of his power, or more accurately the power of the US military-industrial complex, to do anything, including sewing a button on a fart. Worked great in Iraq. Insanity is doing something over, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034,978,1104,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-politics","category-psychology","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}