The Boston Globe
reports that Dick Cheney is coming to Massachusetts in September.
He's coming to say some nice words about the former ambassador to Ireland and EMC Co-founder Richard Egan. Egan is also a Bush "Ranger" meaning he raised more than $200,000 for the 2004 Bush campaign.
It would appear that the ambassadorship was not enough to balance the $200,000 so Bush is evening the scale by sending Dick to town.
Is there a way we can keep him out of the state?
Probably not. In fact, if he travels at all like the president, you'll hardly know he was here unless you happen to be stuck in traffic when his motorcade whizzes from the airport to the Harvard Club where he will speak.
Since the event is open to the republican faithful and closed to the press we will not hear what Cheney says but I am not sure it matters.
You can be sure that the place will be packed with opportunistic rich white guys in three-thousand dollar suits and that they will try to impress others while building their networks of "friends" in pursuit of the mighty dollar.
You can also be sure that health care, social security, the cost of the war in Iraq, the cost and ineffectiveness of the global war on terror, the stolen election of 2004, the torture of prisoners, the death our soldiers, and the destruction of New Orleans will not come up.
No they'll probably discuss important things like tax breaks, cheap labor, and the capital gains tax.
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How sad that I have such a cynical view of our captians of industry, the most powerful people of the nation, the followers of GWB.
Cross Posted at Blue Mass Group