It isn’t often that I get to express my first amendment right to tell a former Vice President that not only was he wrong and I was right, but that it works both ways. Today, I get to do just that and I believe it all comes down something called precedent. Maybe you have heard of it? In case you haven’t, it basically means establishing a principle or a rule for making future decisions. Still don’t understand? Let me break it down even further. Let’s call it “cause and effect”. The cause is firing Federal Prosecutors for not pushing partisan prosecutions coupled with selectively hiring career positions based on political affiliation at the Justice Department. The effect is the politicization of the Justice Department or, better yet, the politicization of justice itself.
There is a reason that the Justice Department hadn’t been politicized in the past. Not by a Republican, not by a Democrat — and all for the reasons you are complaining about now. You say that the probe of the CIA is political? For once, you may actually be right. Yeah, I can’t believe I said it either. However, where do you get the unmitigated gall to accuse the Obama Administration of politicizing the Justice Department? Sir, you and George W. Bush created a precedent when you fired those Federal Prosecutors. You let your successor, his successor, and their successor know it was okay to do so. You made it okay for politics to drive justice in this country. Let’s think about that for a minute. You enabled “justice” to become subject to the ruling political party of the day. In effect, you destroyed the very fabric of justice in this country; and, now you have the supreme arrogance to complain of it being done to you? Let’s be honest; if you live above the law, you lose the protection of it.
Mr. Cheney, where were you when President Bush and Karl Rove fired those Federal Prosecutors for not going after Democrats, even when there wasn’t evidence? The Justice Department should be an independent body where politics or any dividing characteristic hath no place. That is why Lady Justice has a blindfold on. I know you tried to have it removed while you were Vice President, but it’s still there. Sir, had you objected then, like I did, you would have a rock solid case. I agree that politics have no place when it comes to justice and that breaking the law is breaking the law. I don’t care if it is Joe Schmo or the President of the United States.
No matter what, thanks to you, we’ll never know if future Justice Department investigations are political in nature. Once you destroy the fabric of integrity, it’s gone and there is no getting it back. President Obama is, more than likely, taking advantage of the opening that YOU gave him. Well, it is time to reap what you have sewn. Shame on Obama for politicizing justice too, should he be, but you paved the way. It works both ways. Mr. Cheney — good grief — even Richard Nixon knew not to politicize the Justice Department.
Please, Dick, just go away. I’m disgusted every time I see or hear you. It is why I avoid Fox News like the plague. Seriously, you are like fingernails on a chalkboard. Hypocrites tend to do that to me. Even still, I take pity on you. I wouldn’t want to be you and have to explain your actions to God. How sad, for you, if you think this is it. Life here may be temporary, but it is critically important. Our souls are eternal. I have never been more sure of it. Change your ways, Mr. Cheney, and redemption will follow; so will justice. The way you have behaved is coming back to haunt you. The problem I have the most is that I, and people like me, are having to pay for your insanity.