So it appears that Dick Cheney prefers to work with pathological lying, drug addicted and nonsense spewing Rush Limbaugh than the man he worked beside during the Bush administration. On Sunday's Face the Nation, Darth Vader... er, Cheney said with a smirk he thought Powell had already left the Republican Party and that he would prefer to work with Rush. This is ironic, considering among the 100s of Katrina fatalities, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and the thousands of US troops who lost their lives in his amoral, illegal war, you could list Powell's life as lost in the wreckage of the Bush administration. The guy was one of the bright spots in the US military/political world. His rational thinking, penchant for peaceful resolution and easy demeanor made him chum for the idiotic Bush administration. His name had been touted as a potential first black presidential contender, then he sided up with Bush. Ever the good soldier, Powell ran his career into the ground in the name of loyalty and duty, and now the man who handed him the shovel and ordered him to dig is publicly throwing him to the dogs. This is typical Republican vitriol. This is a group that routinely chooses money over humanity, war over peace and insanity over logic. Watching Cheney pick Rush over his own military commander was highly suggestive of the nature of this party. If you don't hate, then you are out of the Republican Party. Even as he spoke host Bob Schieffer broke with his professional journalistic impartialism and smirked ever so slightly, as if suggesting he, himself could not believe that Cheney would publicly choose a radio blowhard over the man who led two wars for him. Dick cited Powell's endorsement of Obama as an indicator of Powell's political alignments. Cheney is indeed the symbol of the GOP. Venomous, unforgiving, hateful, greedy, vengeful and so alone.

"If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd go with Rush Limbaugh. My take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn't know he was still a Republican." - Richard "Dick" Cheney - CBSs Face the Nation, May 10.