House of Eratosthenes

Things are looking positive at this point, but it’s still something to worry about and if you were close family it would probably be time to fly home like Liz Cheney had to.

I guess it’s beyond the capacity of a brittle hardcore lefty to be thinking that way, though. Like…you’re shocked?

For a few moments after I first tuned in, I thought he’d already died. Those were some happy moments.

[W]e could have his future grave made into a urinal.

He’s recovering? How disapponting [sic]…

he’s gonna die sometime…might as well be now…

Let’s go back over this one more time. People need to get it…

These are the people who are running just about everything, or whose idols are running everything, because we held a national election and decided there is something about their position on the ideological spectrum that makes people compassionate. Increases their ability to look out for others, take care of strangers, empathize with the problems of others. And do something positive about all of it. That was, as is always the case, the driving message behind why they should gain our confidence. And therefore win.

Winning, it would seem this late in the game, turns out to be the sole rationale behind all of it. Just crushing the opposition beneath their heel, and doing it some more. Up to, and beyond, the point of breathlessly anticipating the terminal heart conditions of their enemies, and I would presume celebrating hard when it’s time to build the coffin and dig the grave. This is the empathy, this is the compassion?

They are precisely what they call others. Precisely.

You know what I think? I think these are people who don’t really know enough about current events to form an informed opinion about ideology. They just know something about themselves, something that makes them terribly unhappy, and they’re scrambling around looking for some way to display Pollyanna manifestations of “decency” they know darn good and well they don’t really have. It’s not the first time I’ve commented on it, and I’m sure it won’t be the last time I’ll notice it.

…and water boarding is bad, bad I tell you. Wanting Dick Cheney to die…good.

…and the terrorist threat is WAY over blown…but Dick Cheney must die…

…and free health care for millions of poor, uninsured, dying by the thousands ever single day is needed NOW…and Dick Cheney must die.

What these pathetic assholes don’t understand is that Dick Cheney will never die, nor Ronald Regan or George Bush, or…. because we won’t let them die. They along with their leadership and ideas will always live on in us and they/we will haunt them forever…and run this country a majority of the time.
- tim | 02/23/2010 @ 10:25
Frankly, I always liked the man.

He’s always collected, critical without being childish, has reasonable arguments.

Get well, Mr. Cheney.
- philmon | 02/23/2010 @ 10:53
Simple minds need their ‘Emmanuel Goldstein.’
- lordsomber | 02/23/2010 @ 11:24
Hypocrisy, anger, bitterness, double standards. These words should immediately come to mind whenever someone says “The Left.”

Morgan, you nailed it like you always do. I think this is the part that really jumps out at me:

They are precisely what they call others. Precisely.

I’ve noticed they don’t seem to have a lot of “compassion” or “empathy” or “kind heartedness” for people who disagree with them, especially among the Hard Left. Apparently a man who led the charge against their beloved ideas and icons is someone they wish would hurry up and die already.

I’m with Philmon, as is often the case. I liked Cheney when he was veep, and I still pay attention whenever his name comes up in the news. I will never forget Election Night back in 2000, right after Bush was initially declared the victor. They had Bush on TV, and he was blah-blah-blah to some reporter, speaking almost as rambling and incoherently as Obama does now. Then, Cheney came on. He was an attack dog – direct, forceful, eloquent, unapologetic, to-the-point. In that instance, I recall wishing we’d elected him president instead of Bush. Unlike Bush, Cheney was not and is not afraid to essentially tell the media to get bent, or to call a spade a spade.

That having been said, I don’t see why Cheney is seen by the Left as much of a threat now, the way they’d view Palin or possibly Gingrich. Cheney is a private citizen, and despite his long career in government service, he’s essentially retired now, not planning to run for any office or do much of anything else to influence public policy. Or are they trying to “get back” at him for his role in the decisions Bush made while president?
- cylarz | 02/24/2010 @ 03:40
When conservatives and/or libertarians suffer from health issues, I find the reaction from lefties in general (not all- some of my friends are pinkos through and through, but they don’t wish ill on people)- to be disturbing. Quite disturbing. I cannot believe that I share DNA with these pieces of human debris. When Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with brain cancer, I didn’t dance a jig. And this despite the fact that I found him to be a loathsome person who was personally responsible for the death of a young girl. Instead, I offered sympathy to his family and my wish that his death would be quick and painless; my aunt died from a brain tumor and her demise was horrible to watch.

But here we have the bestest, nicest, most well-wishingest people on the planet who want nothing more than for everyone to sing kumbaya, who are either (a) wishing death on someone or (b) celebrating the death of someone (i.e., Tony Snow) simply because they disagree with them politically. I have to say that even if I didn’t believe in God, I’d believe in the Devil, because those people are evil.
- Physics Geek | 02/24/2010 @ 07:09
Or are they trying to “get back” at him for his role in the decisions Bush made while president?

Ding – ding – ding – ding – ding!!!! We have a winner!!!
- philmon | 02/24/2010 @ 07:37
I have to say that even if I didn’t believe in God, I’d believe in the Devil, because those people are evil.

Very well put. I’ll have to file that away for future reference. Well, technically we’re ALL evil people who seek redemption from a good God…but I know what you’re getting at.
- cylarz | 02/26/2010 @ 01:40

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