January 31, 2008 10:58 AM

In Case You Weren't Sure Who the Bad Guys Were...

As if Matt Browner-Hamlin's posts hadn't been clear enough on the issue of domestic spying, Dick Cheney has now helped remind you one more reason the telephone companies are the bad guys: he's on their side.

As Think Progress reports, Cheney appeared on Rush to praise these folks:

Those companies helped specifically at our request, and they've done yeoman duty for the country, and this is the so-called terrorist surveillance program.

Yeoman work! Like the early agrarians so beloved by Thomas Jefferson!

If you want to be on the side of Dick and Rush, your call. I'd offer you my hope that your conscience would let you rest at night, but you may not have a conscience.

Otherwise, be on the right side of this one.