Just what we need

Yesterday, just three weeks after undergoing a heart transplant, Dick Cheney walked onstage to speak at some length at the Wyoming Republican Party Convention and reportedly looked stronger than before this major surgery and its difficult post-op recovery.

I was initially outraged by his saying that President Obama "has been an unmitigated disaster for this country."

Now, even in political hyperbole, that's pretty extreme, especially coming from Darth Vader himself, who I felt was an unmitigated disaster for this country (Iraq war, Patriot Act, increased power of the Executive, torture, secret deals for the oil industry and defense contractors, etc.).

This morning, I'm thinking this is exactly what we need to fire up the disaffected progressives.   Surely, despite their disappointment and anger at Obama, they will wake up and say:  "No way has he been an unmitigated disaster.

And then go out and work to re-elect him.   That's what it's going to take -- coming to face the stark reality of what we will get if we don't.

Ralph