Dr. Feelgood

Fuck yourself.

Vice President Dick Cheney
On the floor of the United States Senate
June 22, 2004

Well, I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it.

Vice President Dick Cheney
On FOX News
June 25, 2004

He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's the one that makes ya feel alright
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's gonna be your Frankenstein

I've got one thing you'll understand
He's not what you'd call a glamorous man
Got one thing that's easily understood
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood

He'll tell you he's the king
Of these barrio streets
Moving up to shangri-la
Came by his wealth as a matter of luck
Says he never broke no law
Two time loser running out of juice

Let him soothe your soul, just take his hand
Some people call him an evil man
Let him introduce himself real good
He's the only one they call "Feelgood"

Motley Crue (the 80's metal band, not the group also known as the Bush administration)
Dr. Feelgood, 1989

[Cheney's personal physicial, Dr. Gary] Malakoff has a history, going back to 1997, of abusing prescription narcotics. At the same time that he was attesting to Cheney’s physical fitness, he was privately struggling with problems that call into question his own fitness to practice medicine and to treat one of G.W.U. Medical Center’s most prominent patients.

The New Yorker
July 5, 2004

Update: Harold Meyerson's WaPo column on "Our Feel-Good Veep" was the original inspiration for this post.