Vice President Cheney accused congressional Democrats today of reviving the “far-left platform” of George McGovern from the 1970s, an agenda that he said would raise taxes, declare surrender in an overseas war and leave the United States exposed to new dangers.
In a sharp-edged speech, Cheney escalated the Bush administration attack on Congress for passing war spending legislation that would mandate withdrawing at least some U.S. troops from Iraq. He raised the specter of the end of the Vietnam era, when McGovern, then a Democratic senator from South Dakota, ran for president on a peace platform and lost the 1972 election in a landslide to President Richard M. Nixon.
How did we ever survive after we abandoned Vietnam; especially when we suddenly discovered we had to “fight them here,” those hordes of Vietnamese terrorists that all sprinted across the ocean and started attacking us here in the “homeland?”
I knew it — Cheney is deluded into thinking this is the Nixon administration all over again. Except this time, the missing tapes have become missing e-mails.
5 million missing emails, according to wait, wait don’t tell me this morning on NPR. And, not to make light of the Vietnam war, but if that was an invasion, Dustin Nguyen can invade me anytime!