Gallzheimer's Disease

The chronic inability to remember that you're a traitor and a war criminal.

From Mother Jones:

22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case

Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally ordered their release on October 1.

In the interview, Cheney demonstrated a behavior common among Bush administration officials under investigation: he couldn't remember much of anything. Here's a non-comprehensive list of 22 things Dick Cheney claimed he couldn't recall about the Plame case, in the order they appear in the FBI's notes...

Read the rest here.

Tragic, really, what happens to petty despots who outlive their juntas. Without fawning underlings to terrorize, fortunes to plunder, high crimes to commit or prisoners to torture they fall into embittered feeble-mindedness and public political incontinence so quickly, starting imaginary wars, forgetting who committed what acts of treason and which bodies are buried where.

Sadder still is that the condition is congenital;

a corruption of the blood passed down like hemophilia from one generation of skeevy, Conservative petro-degenerates to the next.

Since poor old Dick Cheney obviously can no longer reliably remember who he is or what he did, perhaps for his own safety it is time to find some subtle way of helpfully reminding poor old Dick Cheney

of his true nature.

Every single day.

For the rest of his miserable life.