Mary Cheny chip off the block

Mary Cheney: Chip Off the Old Blockby Steve Young May 18, 2006—HOLLYWOOD (apj.us)—Wednesday afternoon, on CNN's Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer asked Mary Cheney if President Bush or her father, Vice President Dick Cheney, have made any mistakes in dealing with Iraq. Her answer? "I think that they have handled Iraq exactly right." Taken aback, Blitzer want to make sure he had heard right. "No mistakes?" Mary was nonplused. "No mistakes." Wolf tried again. "2000 dead soldiers. $300 billion dollars." Still, Mary thought Dad and W had been perfecto. Couldn't have done better. She reminded Wolf that millions could vote and a new government was in place. She reminded me that she certainly had the talking points down. What amazed Mary is that the people against the war, like John Kerry (she referenced him in 2004), have no ideas for dealing with Iraq. Guess the John Murtha tape--along with plummeting polls--haven't gotten to Mary yet. Old chestnuts never die, it seems; they just get recycled by this administration as less and less Americans swallow them. That this woman finds a problem with John Kerry using her sexuality to make a political point, yet is just swell with her father and his boss(?) losing over 2400 US soldiers (and counting) and 100,000 Iraqis (along with the multi-fold family/friend emotional devastations) while presiding over our ever-exploding war debt, is some perplexing caution. The Cheney bloodline, which includes a Vice President bent on sending young men into harm's way yet fought tooth and nail not to serve his country during wartime, may be coming to an end (after a 14-year-long relationship, Mary and her partner have yet to discuss children). Now that is what I call exactly right. Steve Young is a Senior Fellow at the Extreme Far Centrist Foundation' Political Husbandry Conservation Centre and Stereo Repair. In his spare time, he is also an author, comedy writer, columnist, LA talk show host and author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful."(What? You STILL haven't bought it? Then visit http://www.greatfailure.com/). You can also check out the satirical side of Steve every Sunday in the LA Daily News.