Cheney and Song of the Day

The Daily News reports that former Vice President Cheney -- that Dick -- spent a great deal of his final days in power attempting to procure a presidential pardon for "Scooter" Libby, who served as his chief-of-staff from 2001 to 2005. Libby was convicted for lying to a federal grand jury about his role in "Plamegate" and, in June 2007, sentenced to thirty months in prison; President Bush commuted the sentence less than a month following.

However, Bush didn't cave in to Cheney's pestering for a full, free and absolute pardon for Libby. "Oh, please, George, it's a just small favor! It's not like I'm asking you to invade another country which didn't attack us!"


Cheney had to attend Obama's Inauguration in a wheelchair due to a back injury, presumably gained after slipping on the blood of a kitten he bludgeoned to death.

So now Cheney's peeved at Bush and probably won't be inviting him to his undisclosed location for Christmas.

Cheney, Cheney, Cheney -- the guy's like a Bond villain.

BOND: Do you expect me to talk?
CHENEY: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to go fuck yourself.

Let's raise our glasses to the oil-hungry former vice prez, crushed 'neath the weight of his own hubris. He shot for the moon, and all he hit was a lawyer in the face.

Anyway, the Song of the Day is one which should replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as our national anthem. Ludicrously enough, it was also George W. Bush's campaign song in 2000: