SATANDICK'S SHILL STUMPING SOJOURN

From Yahoo News this morning:

TAMPA, Fla. - Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday pointed to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah as fresh evidence of the ongoing battle against terrorism that underscores the need to keep President Bush's Republican allies in control of Congress.

"This conflict is a long way from over," Cheney said at a fundraising appearance for a GOP congressional candidate. "It's going to be a battle that will last for a very long time. It is absolutely essential that we stay the course." WHAT? NO 'LAST THROES IF YOU WILL?'

Cheney's visit to Tampa helped raise about $200,000 for the campaign of Gus Bilirakis, a state legislator who is running for the Tampa Bay area congressional seat his father, Michael, is vacating.
Ahhh nepotism, another of those pillar "Family Values" of the GOP

"Gus is going to remember that the first order of business is to protect the American people and to support the men and women who defend us in time of war," Cheney told the audience at a $500-a-ticket fundraising reception. "There's still hard work ahead in the war on terror." hmmmmm, looks like a decimal point is missing. LOST would be hard pressed to pay $500 for a Beatles reunion concert - even one where John Edward crossed over and brought John and George back!

Cheney said that as Republicans make their case to voters in the midterm elections, "it's vital that we keep issues of national security at the top of the agenda." ("Because even our base has figured out that we're screw ups on everything else?") He faulted Democrats in Congress who have pushed for a timetable for withdrawing Americans from Iraq, saying that would send the wrong message to terrorists.

"If anyone thinks the conflict is over or soon to be over, all they have to do is look at what's happening in the Middle East today," he said. Gosh, Dick, would that include this?

Bilirakis' Democratic opponent, Phyllis Busansky, scheduled a news conference near the hotel where Cheney was appearing to argue that the Bush-Cheney administration had failed on both domestic and foreign policy fronts. In addition, a handful of demonstrators gathered outside the hotel to protest what they said were problems with the administration's prescription drug program.

Cheney has been traveling extensively on behalf of GOP candidates as the party tries to maintain control of Congress in the November elections.
Would that be in a hyperbaric chambered plane?

Later in the day, at a rally for 8,000 troops at Fort Stewart, Ga., Cheney promised that the United States will keep fighting in Iraq until it can declare victory.

"We have only two options in Iraq: victory or defeat. And I want you to know, as members of the United States military, the American people do not support a policy of retreat of defeatism," Cheney said. "We want to complete the mission, get it done right and return with honor."

Ya gotta love Five Deferment Dick. Making appearances only in front of those who can afford $500 tickets, or those whose failure to show up would be grounds for Court Martial. And this 'wipe pledges to send as many more young Americans as he thinks is necessary to achieve, ahem, "victory" or "mission completeness?" Isn't that comforting? Wasn't "victory" already declared? back on May 1, 2003? Finally, what level of public stupidity is assessed to embolden people who have created a complete disaster to embrace it as their strong, campaign point? Applying the same principle to child rearing, raising babies just got easier for parents, because we should trust the baby who made the mess to clean it up on his/her own. And just like that, the Pampers people went the way of the Polaroid and the Packard