Please Take Your Squabble Elsewhere (Cheney's) by Charlie Pierce, my hero

[warrior1]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/cheney-sisters-fighting-111913?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1456_30976167

The instrument has not yet been invented that can measure the size of the damn I don't give about the catfight between the Cheney sisters, gay and straight, over marriage equality. If that entire family -- war criminal sociopath Daddy, propagandist harpy Mom, gay daughter Mary, and warmongering propagandist harpy Liz -- all got on a boat and sailed off to the cannibal isles, I wouldn't do anything more than send a case of barbecue sauce on ahead of them.

The only time I want to see war-criminal Daddy again on my television is from a dock at The Hague. The rest of them can pound sand. The country has made up its mind of marriage equality without the Cheneys, and there is something toweringly pathetic about the attempt to humanize this flock of carrion-eaters because one of them happens to have gay-married her partner without war criminal sociopath Daddy breaking out the shotgun. Marriage equality is an important issue, but it is not the most important issue, and it sure isn't a kind of historical absolution that makes up for the fact that hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive if the Cheney family had been kept away from the levers of power for the same reasons we keep Charlie Manson away from knives.

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[BrotherIvan]

1. This one needs a gold frame

I swear, I just did a fist pump.

[calimary]

2. OMG! I LOVE the comments!

Starting with the first one:

"I'm not going to donate any of my organs until that man is dead."

And the last one (at least at this point) - answering the previous comment of "tell us how you really feel about the cheneys" with:

"If anything, I'd say Charles was too kind."

[JaneyVee]

3. Charlie Pierce is pure poetry.

[Paladin]

4. Pierce hits another one out of the park. (nt)

[Laelth]

5. Hard to argue with that.

We make some really good barbecue sauce here in Middle Georgia. I'd be happy to ship a case of it.



-Laelth

[UTUSN]

6. R#17 & K n/t

[warrior1]

7. I love this guy

[bullwinkle428]

8. Dammit! I'm sorry I made a duplicate post just a few minutes ago.

Happy to K&R this one.

[warrior1]

9. I didn't even see it

[KT2000]

10. K&R for barbecue sauce! n/t

[montex]

11. That's Offensive

Conflating being gay with a war criminal, propaganda and carpet bagging is offensive. Mary Cheney did not choose to be gay, but the same cannot be said for the rest of them. You may enjoy comparing the Cheney family to the Charlie Manson, but you're dead wrong to say that being gay is in any way wrong.

[Ian_rd]

13. Not sure that was the intent

He listed gay as one of his chosen categories of the different Cheneys. Because it was listed among clearly negative categories of others seemed to imply that it was also negative. But I don't think that was necessarily the intent.

Listing Nazis, terrorists, assholes, and dogs implies that dogs are bad. But it was just a list.

[Myrina]

12. Best. Editorial. Ever.

[Cha]

14. Wow! Someone had to say it.. so Charlie P

stepped up in his own inimitable way. thank you.