Sidney Blumenthal writes another
great column, this time on the vice presidential debate.
He points out what most Kossacks know by now--that Cheney lied about everything under the sun, from never meeting Edwards before to the justification for going to Iraq.
But the column also has a great analysis of something I haven't seen discussed too much on Kos (though it's tough to keep up with 400+ diaries a day, so apologies if someone has already written on this): the political seismic waves created among the wingnuts when Edwards praised Cheney's support for his gay daughter.
Another choice excerpt:
Cheney made no effort to hide his sense of unaccountability. Facts that did not serve him were treated like unruly underlings. His self-assurance in lying even when politically unnecessary revealed why he is the power in the vacuum. He could only exist with a chief executive self-absorbed in his resentments and narrow in experience and intellectual scope, who does not hold his vice-president accountable; a national security adviser incompetent in her eagerness to please; and a secretary of state who accepts his internal defeats, always playing the good soldier.
So if you're not sick and tired of reading about the debate already, this is worth a look.