The Lord of Darkness has few friends

I have no doubt that the evil insanity of Dick Cheney frightens many Republicans as much as it frightens we Democrats and Independents. I would guess there are at least a few Republicans who wouldn't shed a tear if Cheney were to not survive his next medical event. When the mouthpiece for the Republican elites, Sally Quinn, suggested that there was A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney all I could do was mock it and I was joined by most on both the right and the left. But deep down inside I was wondering who put her up to it.

Then this morning a man with unquestionable Conservative Republican credentials, Bruce Fein, called for Dick Cheney's impeachment. Mr Fein even supplied a list of Mr Cheney's "high crimes">

• The vice president asserted presidential power to create military commissions, which combine the functions of judge, jury, and prosecutor in the trial of war crimes.
• The vice president initiated kidnappings, secret detentions, and torture in Eastern European prisons of suspected international terrorists.
• The vice president has maintained that the entire world is a battlefield. Accordingly, he contends that military power may be unleashed to kill or capture any American citizen on American soil if suspected of association or affiliation with al-Qaida.
• Mr. Cheney has championed a presidential power to torture in contravention of federal statutes and treaties.
• He has advocated and authored signing statements that declare the president's intent to disregard provisions of bills he has signed into law that he proclaims are unconstitutional.
• The vice president engineered the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program targeting American citizens on American soil in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
• The vice president has orchestrated the invocation of executive privilege to conceal from Congress secret spying programs to gather foreign intelligence, and their legal justifications.
• Cheney scorns freedom of speech and of the press. He urges application of the Espionage Act to prosecute journalists who expose national security abuses, for example, secret prisons in Eastern Europe or the NSA's warrantless surveillance program. He retaliated against Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, through Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, for questioning the administration's evidence of weapons of mass destruction as justification for invading Iraq.

Do these events less than two days apart indicate a real movement to get rid of Dick Cheney? I don't know but I think it's something we should watch in the next few days or even weeks.