HULK SMASH!!!
Good morning
nudibranch?
We found the WMDs!
That's a joke, too.
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I got nuthin'
strict constructionist
Stupid 20-second rule
If he isn't in the executive branch, THEN WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?
more from the 'whoever could have imagined' file -- via radaronline:
Gangs of Iraq
Desperate to shore up its flagging ranks, the military is quietly enlisting thousands of active gang members and shipping them to Iraq. Will a brutal murder finally wake up the Pentagon?
A ghost army of gangbangers presents a terrifying challenge for the military. It is "setting the stage for a disaster," says one longtime military advisor.
Lax enlistment standards have inadvertently allowed known members of the Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings, and various white supremacist groups to join the military.
With the unintended help of the U.S. Army, the Gangster Disciples are extending their reach worldwide.
http://www.radaronline.com/from-
...s_of_iraq_1.php
I dont know about a fourth branch, but I can show you my third branch.
"The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”"
Then no claims of executive privilege for you!
ç?(REPOST)
"Bill Whatcott picture left wearing a Biblical t-shirt homosexual activists want to make illegal. As your mayor Bill Whatcott is committed to protecting Edmontonions from homofascism. Bill Whatcott loves children and he loves truth. He believes children have the God given right to have a mother and father and not have to be indoctrinated into embracing homosexuality by our public schools and media. Mayor Stephen Mandel superimposed between the buttocks of two naked sodomites picture right. Mayor Mandel was parade marshal for Edmonton’s homosexual pride parade. Mayor Mandel has used his office to promote Orwellian restrictions on free speech by championing “hate crime” protection for sodomites. This new class of “crime?” has been effective in bullying conservatives and especially Christians into silence when it comes to criticizing the dangerous, disease spreading and perverse sexual practices of homosexuals. Bill Whatcott sees “hate crimes” protections for homosexuality as an assault on religious and civil liberties. Homosexuality is wrong and as your Mayor, Bill Whatcott is committed to denouncing homosexuality, warning young people about the consequences of indulging in the practice and calling on those trapped in the homosexual lifestyle to repentance, forgiveness and healing through the shed blood of Jesus Christ."
"(”This is a picture of me leading the Regina sodomite parade this past Saturday. Looking back at it, I can only conclude that the Holy Spirit has supernaturally protected me as I walked into the front of the parade and lead them to the legislature.”
olexicon, at woik
The Vice President isn't in the Executive Branch?
What the fuck are these people smoking?
from Waxman's letter: ...given the history of security breaches involving officials in your office.
"Breaches? That's not a bug, that's a feature, dammit!"
dead threaded:
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The Vice President isn't in the Executive Branch?
He's also in the legislative branch.
a repost 
Heidi is very grumpy, my father has been working from home for the past two weeks, and he shuts the door to stop Heidi getting in and disrupting what he is doing.
so he moans a lot and just looks miserable, usually sits outside the room for hours, staring at the door.
Moonbootica, Ninjabi | Homepage | 06.21.07 - 11:39 am | #
The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
Then he's not eligible for Executive Privilege, is he?
Line up his entire fucking staff in the Committee room, and start asking questions.
The administration's largest successes have been in bringing the law into the greatest disrepute in the nation's history.
Well done!
"The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”"
Hey, have you seen John Edwards newest haircut?
If he isn't in the executive branch, THEN WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?
jri
Prison is where he belongs.
My er, "carrot" might get in the way...
doncjesuis
Uh, that was not the royal we ...
LOOK OUT!!! SHE'S GOT A VEGGIE-PEELER!!!
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What Tony Blair should realise about the Middle East
Then no claims of executive privilege for you!
Exactly.
Lax enlistment standards have inadvertently allowed known members of the Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings, and various white supremacist groups to join the military.
Havsn't the military always been infested with white supremacists?
*she
Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information.
Dammit! How can he just exempt himself from stuff? That does seem quite right...
"I'm not in the Executive Branch, I'm in Lynne's Hoo-Hah!"
doesn't seem quite right
Oh, IMPEACH him already!!
Every evil parody of the veep creep does not even come close to the true malevolence of this wretched being.
so he moans a lot and just looks miserable, usually sits outside the room for hours, staring at the door.
Miss Karmina must open EVERY closet door in house. NO DOORS SHALL BE CLOSED. She'd open the front door if she could manage to unlock it.
So, you tell me: what is a political satirist to do?
Damn! Reality trumps fantasy every damned time.
The question would seem to be how to establish the legality of Cheney's extraordinary position.
In Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court can be asked to opine on constitutional matters in the absence of an instant case. Don't know how one could be constructed to bring the matter. Perhaps Waxman's committee could request a particular document Cheney would withhold, and then sue in federal court?
OK, off to do something more productive...
"The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”"
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
Gee, you don't think this might have something to do that Plame matter? Na, it couldn't be.
Oddly, SCOTUS just came out w/ an opinion indicating that perjury is a crime for which you can be forced to do considerable time in jail. Someone call Broder's fainting couch and smelling salts, STAT.
wow, that's certainly a strongly worded letter. I wonder whether Cheney's office will put it through the shredder, use it as toilet paper, or crumple it up and toss it, basketball style, into a wastebasket.
Cus without consequences, and if recent history is a guide there will be none, that letter's not worth much more than the paper it's printed on.
If he isn't in the executive branch, THEN WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?
an undisclosed location.
Defund. If the VP's not within the executive then where are they getting their funds? Who's paying the bills? If the Veeps office is a separate line item, zero it out. If they're funded through the Exec, then by god they're part of the damn exec branch. If they say they're not, again, take out whatever the cost of running the Veeps office is.
Miss Karmina must open EVERY closet door in house. NO DOORS SHALL BE CLOSED. She'd open the front door if she could manage to unlock it.
War On War Off | 06.21.07 - 11:49 am | #
yep, sounds like Heidi heh
"...as predominant and powerful as it is deranged..." thus spake Glenn Greenwald
"The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”"
In America, VP not an office w/in office of president. President an office w/in office of VP.
He is the fifth estate, or a fifth columnist.
If he isn't in the executive branch, THEN WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?
Lurking in shrubbery.
Schroedinger's Vice President
cheney isn't an entity in the executive branch.
he is totally above it.
pulling its strings.
Could be wrong, but it seems as if Dead-eye Dick Cheney is perhaps the most evil single person in the history of the executive branch, or delusional branch or whatever branch he believes he occupies.
Honest to God, somebody impeach this merchant of doom, please.
There is not going to be much to put in the Bush Presidential Library except some brush he cleared on the ranch.
Now that I have followed the link, I read it is about Cheney... our spider-hole-dwelling vice-president (who also seems to be quite hyphenated).
This Is Too Bizarre, Even For Tony
If ever there were a wave function needing to be collapsed, it's Cheney's...
i hope to see the capitol police frogmarching dick to a holding cell in the basement.
Obviously, when the Vice President does it...it's not illegal.
Didn't Spiro Agnew try to make that case?
why cannot even one dem candidate say that the republics have been and are about subverting the ideals of democracy espoused by our founding fathers?
that a vote for GOP is a vote for more lies, selling democracy to corporations and more wars?
cheney in ur branches pwning yur govrmnt
What is Cheney hiding?
He's hiding his connections with organized crime interests.
an office with your history of security breaches
Heh.
that a vote for GOP is a vote for more lies, selling democracy to corporations and more wars?
Gee I don't know.
Differences in educational attainment
My cat claws at closed doors. I had one cat that could open any kitchen cabinet door even when the handles were the old-fashioned type that had to be turned. At least, she couldn't turn on the tv when I wasn't there but who knows?
I'm going to exempt myself as a taxpaying entity next April 15. Should work.
I think the organization of the Iraqi government is starting to make more sense than ours.
G'day all.
So, have these shits tried exempting themselves from the Law of Gravitation yet? 'Twould be interesting to see gasbag Cheney levitating around the room..........
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What is Cheney hiding?
Holden Caulfield
His grandchild?
If he isn't in the executive branch, THEN WHERE THE FUCK IS HE?
an undisclosed location.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
[Gilbert Gottfried]
IN DIRK'S PANTS!!!
[/Gilbert Gottfried]
He's hiding his connections with organized crime interests.
enslaved | 06.21.07 - 11:53 am | #
nah. no need.
it's public knowledge that he is associated with the bush family.
Not an entity of the executive branch? Holy shit!
They're not legislative or judicial. So what then are they?
Y'see, the vice president's only constitutional duty is the presidency of the Senate. Therefore, the VP is not part of the executive branch.
Quod erat dumbfuck.
Not an entity of the executive branch? Holy shit!
They're not legislative or judicial. So what then are they?
enslaved | 06.21.07 - 11:55 am | #
Criminal
Coo-Coo ka Coup.
IMPEACH!
not original, but only comment that covers the case
Grounds for impeachment?
What if Gore had tried this BS in 1995?
What is Cheney hiding?
Holden Caulfield
A very small, very shriveled up banana.
Ooh, read a little further down...
Your office may have the worst record in the executive branch for safeguarding classified information. As Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald established, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, your former Chief of Staff, leaked the identity of a covert CIA operative to several reporters in June 2003. Mr. Libby was convicted in March of perjury, obstruction of justice, and false statements for lying to a grand jury and to FBI agents in order to conceal his role in the leaking of this information.
The prosecution of Mr. Libby also revealed that you apparently misused the declassification process for political reasons. In July 2003, you reportedly instructed Mr. Libby to leak to the media portions of an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate regarding Saddam Hussein’s purported efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Your selective declassification of this information was apparently made outside the formal declassification process and done as part of a damage-control effort you undertook to defend the Administration’s rationale for going to war in Iraq.
Cockpunch!
IMPEACH! INDICT! IMPRISON!
They're not legislative or judicial. So what then are they?
Imperial.
"The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”"
Then no claims of executive privilege for you!
McStubbins | 06.21.07 - 11:44 am
preach it brother
i have a door going to my porch that has windows in the top portion and a small little sill at the bottom of the windows...my 15 lb tabby jumps up and holds onto the sill with his front paws looking out and meowing...a regular kilroy, he is!
Hmm, on consideration it's an older doctrine.
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Cheney......
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apparently, as I was feverishly hammering this out everybody fled up the stairs. So I'll post it once more and then drop it.
I didn't mean YOUR nightmare scenarios, I meant the ones in the Official Narrative.
As for me not reading enough history ...
OK, fair enough, but that's not what you said initially. You said all the nightmare scenarios. And I would suggest that even the official narratives have hinted at worse things than what has already happened that could happen when we pull out. And I'm sorry to impugn you reading of history, but if you have read enough of it, then I'm sure you yourself will have no difficulty imagining where this thing could likely to go.
As I said above, I support an essentially complete withdrawal. But that does not mean that I believe that every assertion of fact that supports the case for complete withdrawal is true. And the oft-repeated idea that "It's already gotten as bad as it could get and we're only making it worse" is one of those statements that I really, really don't believe. It seemed to me that that was exactly what you were saying. If I was wrong about that, my apologies.
And I should add that it's not that that statement really bugs me because it argues for withdrawal, since I support withdrawal. It's that that statement in my mind leaves the door open for some denials down the road of just what a bad thing we did by invading Iraq. It is very easy for me to imagine a situation where we kind of just stop paying attention as much as possible once our troops are gone, and fail to acknowledge as a nation the abject genocidal horror we will have left in our wake.
The Vice President’s staff responded by seeking to abolish the agency within the Archives that is responsible for implementing the President’s executive order.
Impressive.
Keep in mind Cheney has guns and knows how to use them.
They're not legislative or judicial. So what then are they?
enslaved
The Fucktard Branch of Government.
Cheney's logic makes my brain hurt and the baby Jesus cry. Will somebody please make him stop?
In 2002, Cheney built hisself a little spider-hole...
What ever happend to the DC Madame?
Isn't not Cheney's phone number in her call log?
Keep in mind Cheney has guns and knows how to use them.
At least one of those.
The reporting on this is another public service brought to you by your corporate media!
blerb:
I appreciate the time you took to reply, and I think we agree on this issue about as much as any two intelligent people ever agree about anything.
That said:
1. we're not responsible for what Sadrists, Quds, and Baathists do now.
2. no matter what happens, the rat wang will claim we did a horrible thing by leaving, just as they recycle urban myths about Cambodia.
This is the era of no good choices. We do the calculus, we pull the trigger, we shed a few tears, and we go on knowing that we've made the best of someone else's shitty situation.
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Just imagine if this Vice President Gore. Now imagine the howls and bleatings of the media and the wingnuts.
Great solstice picture of Stonehenge:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod...d/
ap060621.html
Keep in mind Cheney has guns and knows how to use them.
Gimlet
If you stay in front of him at all times, you're home free.
mcnulty testimony to begin @ noon. cspan3 carrying it.
http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_c...Cat=TV&
Code=CS3
The rule of law is doing the Q.
/Lenny Briscoe.
What ever happend to the DC Madame?
it's summertime....dead beach revelers and missing white women....DC Madame is old news - stale like day-old bread
Then the people in Gaza, over time, will realize that it's in their best interests to adopt the pro western governments.
remember when the cubans overthrew castro in teh baywatch of pigs it was right after teh cuban muscle crisis anyway it was awesome
Cheney once shot a man in the face just to hear him apologize.
Objectively, this is clever on Cheney's part. That is, no matter how bullshit, this can be spun out for the next two years in the legal system, while all charges vs Cheney hang fire until a decision is made. Then Dubbyah's last week orgy of pardon signing can get Cheney off the hook for whatever it is he's covering.
And who knows? Given the Heritage University Justice Dept. and SCOTUS, Cheney may just get himself declared the Fourth Branch of gubmint.......
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Keep in mind Cheney has guns and knows how to use them.
Gimlet
If you stay in front of him at all times, you're home free.
Lime Rickey
"And if you don't like the way I drive, stay off the god-damned sidewalks." - Dick Cheney
The Old Man From Scene 24 | Homepage | 06.21.07 - 11:49 am |
My thoughts, exactly.
OK CAN WE JAIL ALL THESE CROOKS NOW, PLEASE?!?!
Sorry to yell, but dayummm!
Remember the howls of outrage from the Right over the 33 month sentence given to Victor Rita for perjury and obstruction of justice? The cries of "there's no underlying crime!"?
Me neither.
Moonboo posted @ 11:10 just down below that the Kurds have apparently reached some sort of agreement with the Maliki government about the "oil law."
This does not seem like a good thing, as there is no accord with the Sunnis--and I cannot believe any independent Iraqi government will abide by the law as developed by BushCo.
Oh, dear.
Paris Hilton/Dick Cheney 08.
Would it be rude of me to suggest the Congress not appropriate any money for any his house and garden since he apparently doesn't exist?
What ever happend to the DC Madame?
Holden Caulfield
What do you mean by that? Why ask me? Why would I know? Is this an accusation? What makes you think I know anything about her?
Dead Eye Dick only shoots tame birds and old men.
The rule of law is doing the Q.
/Lenny Briscoe.
HoneyBearKelly Gravastar
The rule of law is like my ex-wife/lenny briscoe
why cannot even one dem candidate say that the republics have been and are about subverting the ideals of democracy espoused by our founding fathers?
that a vote for GOP is a vote for more lies, selling democracy to corporations and more wars?
mogwa
that's is what i don't fucking understand. there's absolutely no sense of outrage among any of the press or congress about the degradation inflicted upon this country by bush. it's all a sort of ho-hum that's the way things are done in washington ... where's my dinner party invite.
HAHAHA!!!
...the CSPAN feed for the McNulty hearing is up. There are women sitting behind and to the left of the star witness holding up signs saying "Fire Gonzo". Voiceover says they're from Code Pink...
Maybe Dick needs to read one of Lynne's childrens' history books to sort this out.
Moonboo posted @ 11:10 just down below that the Kurds have apparently reached some sort of agreement with the Maliki government about the "oil law."
This does not seem like a good thing, as there is no accord with the Sunnis--
I think that in 20 years, "Kirkuk" will be a word with the same sort of bitter connotations as "Stalingrad" or "Pnomh Penh".
There's not gonna be an election in 2008.
Would it be rude of me to suggest the Congress not appropriate any money for any his house and garden since he apparently doesn't exist?
It would be rude not to.
"The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch."
Damn straight!
Everyone knows Dick's office is a branch of the Dark Lord of the Sith, a brutal enforcer of the Galactic Empire's rule across the galaxy.
Sheesh! Get a grip already, Waxman!
[//snark off
Time to defund the veep.
Apparently, he's not part of government.
Hope he's got some place to stay tonight.
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it's all a sort of ho-hum that's the way things are done in washington
"Dark arts." Quick, somebody call the South Carolina Baptists!
The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
Well then dickie...does this mean your office can't claim "executive privilege" on all of these investigations? Make up your mind, bitch.
Rasmussen
In the latest poll [former Sen. John] Edwards leads Senator John McCain (R) by 13 percentage points, 49% to 36%.
Over the past month, Edwards has almost doubled his margin over McCain. In May it was Edwards 48%, McCain 41%.
Edwards also crushes former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) 51% to 33%. While still a rout, those numbers are actually a bit better for Romney than those from a month ago.
Is that compound in Maryland government funded?
Time to do some evicting.
Amendment to the federal budget:
"use of Number One Observatory Circle is restricted to individuals exercising powers described under Article I of the Constitution"
Cheney/Rasputin '08 (and beyond)
I'd be curious if there's a single constitutional scholar in this great land of ours who could keep a straight face while listening to someone defend the notion that the vice president isn;'t part of the executive branch...
His grandchild?
Nah, he's already passed young Noah.
Edwards also crushes former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) 51% to 33%. While still a rout, those numbers are actually a bit better for Romney than those from a month ago.
Holden Caulfield | Homepage | 06.21.07 - 12:09 pm | #
So, why is he not getting more buzz? Oh, right, he got an expensive haircut.
I love America......
I would appreciate your cooperation with this request. Please provide answers to the questions above and the requested materials to the Committee by July 12, 2007.
After that, you're out on your ASS.
don't forget the snapshot wonkette posted of the semi-trailer truck marked 'shredder' outside the cheney abode a few months ago.
that's is what i don't fucking understand. there's absolutely no sense of outrage among any of the press or congress about the degradation inflicted upon this country by bush. it's all a sort of ho-hum that's the way things are done in washington ... where's my dinner party invite.
The cowboy doesn't consider the right of the cattle to live and go as they will. He just herds them, and calculates the upcoming profits.
Press and Congress are herdsmen, and so think that way.
What do they think of you?
Moooooo.
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The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
I wanna know if he's got Swiss Guards at the front door.
So, why is he not getting more buzz? Oh, right, he got an expensive haircut.
I love America......
Barbarism Begins at Home
Just shows to go ya' that our third-place candidate can wipe out enyone on the Republikkkan side.
While still a rout, those numbers are actually a bit better for Romney than those from a month ago.
Smell the Mitt, bitches!
Wait a minute... I thought we were sheep.
...bears repeating:
Cheney built himself a spider-hole...
Maybe the VP office falls under the Vulcan protectorate...
Smell the Mitt, bitches!
doncjesuis who ?Tina Fey |
have that Copyrighted
I wanna know if he's got Swiss Guards at the front door.
Swiss Colony and Swiss chard, too.
The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
Tee Hee! You've gotta hand it to Big Dick, when it comes to deadpanning the most outrageous, obvious lies, he is a man without equal.
Time to do some evicting.
HoneyBearKelly Gravastar
Take away his medical benefits and subject him to 24 hour a day speeches by Bill Clinton outside his home and office as part of a "heritage" project.
Wait a minute... I thought we were sheep.
Such self-awareness shall result in your promotion to mutton.
why cannot even one dem candidate say that the republics have been and are about subverting the ideals of democracy espoused by our founding fathers?
Because, sad to say, the Dems by and large have not a single spine between them.
They caved after the stolen-in-plain-sight 2000 election, and they've been caving pretty much ever since.
Ooh -- they blocked the nomination of Linda Chavez. Total victory is ours, comrades.
Sorry to keep flogging this point, but it has to be said.
And if anybody thinks Hillary is just the woman to fix this problem, I've got some bridgefront property in Brooklyn I'm willing to unload cheap.
have that Copyrighted
olexicon, at woik
Not mine, alas.
Amendment to the federal budget:
"use of Number One Observatory Circle is restricted to individuals exercising powers described under Article II of the Constitution"
Culture of Truth
Fixed your Typo.
Article II
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
I would like to exempt myself from housework, paying bills and grading papers.
I am not an entity within the executive branch.
(ahem) sheets, ya'll
You don't have to do anything to copyright something, other than to fix it in a tangible medium...
sheets
international owls
The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
I wanna know if he's got Swiss Guards at the front door.
Kings always got Royal bodyguards.
what still, still floors me is that the generals in Iraq are using Blackwater mercs for their personal and HQ security. One supposes they don't trust their own troops that much. shades of Rome's fall.......
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I understand that the NYT Magazine piece on Edwards was not well received by some in his camp. I actually thought it portrayed Edwards pretty well as a champion of the poor, though he's obviously a rich man. So was FDR. I, like others, don't understand why Edwards isn't getting more attention. Yeah, he voted for the AUMF, but he was courageous enough to say it was a mistake.
All that aside, I'd still prefer if Mr. Gore would come to the rescue. But first, let's kick Cheney to the curb. How is it that Mr. Kucinich's motion to impeach isn't getting more support? Where are the leaders? Where are the Democrats with moral conviction and courage? Somebody please step to the front.
I'd be curious if there's a single constitutional scholar in this great land of ours who could keep a straight face while listening to someone defend the notion that the vice president isn;'t part of the executive branch...
John Yoo to the white courtesy phone please.
Guardian has a headline that "Nader to Run Again." I voted for him in 2000 but at this points he's as welcome as the return of typhus or Muhammed Ali climbing back into the ring. Sad, revolting and sick.
Since Cheney has now attempted to assert that Vice President is somehow "not a member of the Executive Branch" and therefore not subject to security oversight requirements, we can skip Impeachment and go directly to an immediate Federal arrest for crimes against the state, or, if words, law, or meaning itself are any longer to have any force whatsoever, then at a minimum removal from office for being mentally incompetent, since Vice President is manifestly a p;art of the Executive Branch and always has been merely by definition. Thus, after his forcible arrest, we, that is, the People of the United States, can also hold Cheney under his own rules, that is, indefinitely, without charges, and without any right to Habeas.
"Thus, after his forcible arrest, we, that is, the People of the United States, can also hold Cheney under his own rules, that is, indefinitely, without charges, and without any right to Habeas."
Wouldn't that be sweet.
Because, sad to say, the Dems by and large have not a single spine between them.
I don't know that it's cowardice.
what still, still floors me is that the generals in Iraq are using Blackwater mercs for their personal and HQ security. .......
Cynicus
Source? (Not doubting you, just want more info.)
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I've done the research, and the Office of the Vice President doesn't have to answer to anyone about anything. And it can have its own national security staff, and its own CIA. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Why would I name myself VP if it was an office that had limited power?
Prof. Yoo: so you'd find it mere coincidence that Cheney advocates amending the Constitution to allow a Romulan to serve as VP?
"Most countries have safeguards to protect the independence of the judiciary from the executive, such as the impossibility of the executive to dismiss a judge. Similar safeguards may apply to other categories of government employees, in order to allow them to conduct their functions without undue political pressure. In return, judges and government employees may be expected not to take part in active politics themselves. In the United States the Congress has all the power and the sole responsibility of removal by means of impeachment." -Wikkipedia
"Dick Cheney smells like Barq's root beer mixed with my cum"-Chris Matthews
Our dear leader Peloci forgot her password. Wordpress won't let me in.
"The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”"
Okay then.
I guess he won't need that Secret Service detail, or access to classified information, or any other privileges associated with being in the executive branch.
Oh, and he certainly won't need that alleged immunity from prosecution (prior to impeachment of course) that the executive branch has lately asserted.
So did I get this right: He's not in the Executive branch but he can claim executive priviledge?
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