The invertebrates who pass as Democratic members of Congress (yes, Feinstein and Schumer, I mean you, but not only you) are in morbid fear of being accused of being soft on terrorism. What is worse than being soft on terrorism is being soft on fascism, and that's what we're seeing these days. It's time to call it like it is, and Cheney, his puppet, and his enablers fit all the classical definitions of the F-word, and the only defense against that stuff is to stand up against it. Wherever it didn't happen, democracy died.

So Osama can huff and puff all he wants, blow up a few buildings, poison our water supply, and maybe even get a suitcase nuke into the country. But he cannot destroy democracy. Cheney, on the other hand, not only can destroy democracy, but he's doing a pretty effective job of it.

The irony of it all is that the so-called fight against so-called islamofascism fights fascism with fascism. When that happens, the winner is ... duh ... At some not-really-all-that-deep level, Cheney and Osama are allies, and this surfaces with enough frequency to cause concern. Remember, folks, that in Orwell's world the perpetual war was maintained because it was in the interests of the belligerents to keep it going in order to subjugate their own people.