Ogres of Literature and Politics

Cheney Spits Toads
By MAUREEN DOWD
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/opinion/09dowd.html?th and republished in many newspapers, even The Dallas Morning News today. You can look it up, as James Thurber would say. Ms. Dowd and I agree that the Vice President has been behaving like a Grimm Brothers' ogre.

One of my wittle fwee-year olds was chattering on about seeing Fwek Tvoo. It took serious concentration and eyeglass windshield wipers to figure out what she was talking about. Shrek II.

Ogre.
That's our Cheney in a word. Fee fi fo fum. Now Shrek is a William Steig ogre. Dick is real Grimm bad news at the top of the beanstalk.

I do wish I could sit John Kerry down on my knee and read Paul Galdone's version of "Puss and Boots" to him. It is time for the Democrat to put on tall red leather boots and start charming people with gifts from the "Marquis of Carabas". Mr. Kerry better get his wits together soon and trick the evil giant into transforming himself into a mouse so Puss can catch him and devour him. Time is running out.

Iraq was Halliburton's war from the beginning. Bring our troops home. Let Halliburton clean up its own mess and turn out the lights.