All talk and no action.

In the past few weeks, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been making the rounds conducting some interviews. Much to the shock and rage of liberals everywhere, Cheney is not hiding or backing down from his beliefs - but rather he is articulating a no-holds-barred defense of his and President Bush's record regarding the Iraq War and economic issues. He has even had the audacity to cite how the current actions and inactions of the TOTUS are endangering Americans. This renewed set of appearances and defense has prompted liberals to once again scream for the prosecution of the former VP and President on "War Crimes".

Since the war started six years ago, we have heard this call for executive prosecution countless times. Not just from individuals on the blogosphere, mind you - we've also heard it from liberal members of the House and Senate. Yet, despite having the majority since 2006 - neither the Senate or House made a single move to hold President Bush accountable for any crime whatsoever. In fact, one of Nanzi Pelozi's first actions as Speaker of the House was to proclaim that impeachment was off the table. Likewise, President Obama - after promising his minions a reversal of the Patriot Act and executive powers used by President Bush during his terms - has refused to reverse or give up any of executive powers he inherited, and now has even defended keeping previously enacted executive powers because they offer him flexibility.

This has always left people with a boggled mind asking themselves: Why didn't (or why won't) democrats go after President Bush and VP Cheney for any of the alleged "crimes" for which they are supposedly guilty of?

"Why" they do not do anything about charging President Bush or VP Cheney for anything is simple:

After the democrats lost the House and Senate in 1994, their prospects for getting either branch back looked bleak for many years. When democrats signed off on the Iraq war, they purposefully made the calculated decision to leverage any bad news about the war to their political advantage. That negativity is what re-energized their base. They will never admit it, but had the Iraq war never happened and none of the negative aspects that it lent to Bush's presidency never occurred, Republicans would probably still be running both the House and Senate and President Bush's popularity numbers would never have been pulverized by the negativity foisted on him because of the war. Outside of criticizing the Iraq war, democrats had very little to go on.

Politically, Americans have always had short attention spans, and there are a lot of people who run around acting as if none of the counter-intelligence information that President Clinton or his liberal cohorts in the House and Senate had cited during the 90's about Iraq ever occurred. Democrats have persuaded a large portion of their uninformed followers that any covert information cited by President Bush was conjured up out of thin air and had never been presented or cited prior to his administration doing so. They have even tried to assert that information was cherry picked for it's effectiveness, regardless of the number of sources providing it. None of that is true. Given that the lefts' most gifted moonbats have run around for years making outrageous claims that the President orchestrated and arranged for the plane crashes and "demolition" of the World Trade Center, it lends a lot to their credit for purposefully whipping their base into a mindless frenzy based on false impressions they have purposefully created through the assistance of an enabling media.

If democrats were to actually act on any of their accusations towards President Bush, it would also mean that their (the democrats) full record of knowledge, support, culpability and all historical references regarding all aspects of the Iraq war would immediately be called front and center into the American political stage when the former administration would make their case. The absolute last thing the democrats want to do is give President Bush any opportunity or excuse to speak out and shove the official record back up their liberal asses. President Bush being *accused* of being a "war criminal" is far more useful for them than their having to actually make a true case that they know would fail and cause them to lose face.

Given that President Obama has already sold out his most ardent anti-war supporters by expanding the war in Afghanistan and refusal to relinquish powers he previously hailed as being unconstitutional, one wonders...how long it will be before any of his star-struck followers blinks and wake up to the reality that they were sold a bill of goods?

***UPDATE***

Here is another person who examines the same issue...