Dick Cheney is friend to all children

Watched a little of the debate last night, then went to celebrate my friend Mark's birthday. Cheney looked tired and lame, and if the best he can do is say that John Edwards didn't show up in the Senate enough, that's pretty goddamn sad. His own record is nothing to be proud of.

Cheney’s Legislative Career by the Numbers

96th Congress: 4 Sponsored; 0 became Law
97th Congress: 4 Sponsored: 0 became Law
98th Congress: 8 Sponsored: 0 became Law
99th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law
(H.R.1246 : A bill to establish a federally declared floodway for the Colorado River below Davis Dam.)
100th Congress: 7 Sponsored: 1 became Law
(H.R.712 : A bill for the relief of Lawrence K. Lunt.)
101st Congress: 1 Sponsored: 0 became Law

Oh, and then there's this slam dunk by Edwards:

The vice president, I'm surprised to hear him talk about records. When he was one of 435 members of the United States House, he was one of 10 to vote against Head Start, one of four to vote against banning plastic weapons that can pass through metal detectors.

He voted against the Department of Education. He voted against funding for Meals on Wheels for seniors. He voted against a holiday for Martin Luther King. He voted against a resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela in South Africa.

It's not like Uncle Dick has a lot of room to talk. And speaking of which, if you're going to say you've never met somebody before, don't have photographic evidence to the contrary. He lies about this, he continually lies about a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, he can't be trusted to tell you the time of the day or whether the sun is out.