Dear Mr. Cheney,
This morning I read in the New York Times (you know, that paper that employs Adam Clymer, who you once referred to as a "major league asshole") that you appeared on Fox News yesterday and commented on the remarks made by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the former pastor of Senator Barack Obama.
I am an American citizen and a taxpayer. In a sense, that makes me your boss, although you seem to not understand the idea that you serve the people of this country. After all, during an interview on the fifth anniversary of this war that you created, a reporter informed you that two-thirds of Americans now opposed the war. Your response was "So?" Therefore, it is with some measure of skepticism that I approach the idea that you would heed the wishes of any citizen on any issue, but I will make my request nonetheless: Please be quiet.
In the past eight years, you have taken actions that are ethically dubious, morally vacant, and possibly criminal. In the 2000 election, your presence on the Republican ticket gave undue credibility to a man wholly unqualified to be President of the United States. As Vice President, you have consistently urged through voice and action abuse of the power granted to the Executive Branch by the Constitution. You have undermined civil liberties in this country. You have transparently put the interests of big business before those of the American people. And you also shot a guy in the face.
We'll call that last action an accident, but all the others seem to have been quite deliberate. Given your long and sullied record, sir, you should consider yourself fortunate that you have not been impeached and removed from office. Happily, the 22nd Amendment will remove you and Mr. Bush in 2009. On the happy occasion of your departure from public office, it would be appropriate to quote Oliver Cromwell's remarks to the Rump Parliment in 1653: "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
Until that time, on behalf of anyone who reads this blog, and for the millions of Americans who don't know this blog exists but would agree with the sentiment: hold your tongue. Do not interfere with the effort to choose good and decent people to lead this country, because you have no knowledge of the subject.
