The natives are restless

Just in case you missed it. . .

Cheney, who visited both clubhouses after batting practice, watched part of the game from the box of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and part from a first-row seat next to the Yankees dugout, where he sat between New York Gov. George Pataki and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Cheney was booed when he was shown on the right-field videoboard during the seventh-inning stretch.

It will be interesting to contrast the Democratic vs. Republican conventions. Mostly by the reactions to the various protests, I guess. It'll be pretty weird if Cheney has an indictment against him or his closest aides heading into the convention (or coming out of it, for that matter).

Do you think it's all some sort of Karl Rove psycho drama? Are we just being played so that we'll all sigh with relief when Cheney declines the VP slot "for health reasons" and GW rides to election on the tidal wave of good will the act engenders? I mean, how hard would it for Cheney to fake a heart attack and save face while dropping out of the race "for the good of the party".

Personally, I think they could have gotten away with this if they'd have played it in January. But now the stink of Cheney is getting such that Yankee fans are starting to get fed up with it. I guess the test I'd like to see run is for people to show Cheney's picture at a Nascar race. If they boo, the guy is toast the very next day.

It seems to me that this should be easily faked with today's technology. Just get a clip of Cheney in a crowd and doctor it so it looks like the current audience. Heck, someone could slip that in as a political ad, couldn't they?

It's a question that I don't think anyone in the White house wants answered at this point. And the longer they string it on, I think the higher the probability that people will soon be parading in the street, burning Cheney in effigy at their convention. I guess they can always use pictures of people doing this in their new ads - Hitler is going to get old after a while.

I can just imagine what it's like around the White House these days. No wonder Cheney is off in his secret, previously undisclosed location. But I bet that makes it all the more creepier when he's around. He's probably like the specter of death when he shows up. People disappear whenever he comes by - never to be seen again. Strange orders are given, and whole countries disappear a couple of days later.

Really, he's like Death. He has become destroyer of worlds.

In any event, all I'm saying is that I think it would probably be really creepy to work for/with Cheney, even if the guy was more popular than the Olsen twins.

So when he starts accumulating the stench of failure around him, you know it's going to have to be pretty damn strong before they chuck the guy over board. I think the metric is probably the level of stink raised by the vomit of carrion eating birds, like vultures*. Decomposing, rotted, long dead flesh in the process of being digested. That's the level of stench likely required to dislodge the man from the VP slot.

And sure. The relief that one feels upon being removed from such a unbelievably disgusting stench is probably comparable to a religious experience. But it doesn't necessarily follow that voters - especially the less than 20 % of us that can still be convinced - will be overwhelmingly voting for the party where the stink emanated in the first place.

Maybe they will, but I'll personally be stunned.

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*Vultures throw up as a defense mechanism. Nothing - and I do mean nothing - will ever go near a vulture after having the vulture vomit on them. The unfortunate target of the vomit will remember that smell for a very, very long time.