Dick Cheney Rules

The New York Times ^ | 3 June 2007 | NYT editorial board

[California Desert Rat]

Americans are accustomed to Vice President Dick Cheney’s waiting out a terrorist threat in a “secure undisclosed location.” Now it seems that Mr. Cheney wears the cloak of invisibility in secure disclosed locations. The Associated Press reported that Mr. Cheney’s office ordered the Secret Service last September to destroy all records of visitors to the official vice presidential mansion — right after The Washington Post sued for access to the logs.

[California Desert Rat]

This kind of ad hominem, fictional crap strikes me as Exhibit A in how the Times is in bed with our enemies.

[struggle]

Like the crappy joke Hillary made about him in the debates. Yeah, Hillary, but he is STILL your boss on the Senate floor.

[lesser_satan]

I wish "Big" Dick Cheney did rule. Maybe he'd enforce the border and reward people like Annie Jacobson for reporting terrorist activity instead of ridiculing her.

Impeach Bush now! Cheney is our last hope!

[SCHROLL]

actually should there ever be another attack we should let word slip Cheney is hiding in the NYT editorial board room and that he dares the terrorists to come take him out.

[DakotaRed]

Can’t the print anything besides the same old tired DNC talking points?

[AmericanInTokyo]

I am fairly certain the “fix is in” at the pinnacle of the Republican Hierachy, and even with a change in Presidents, Dick Cheney may not necessarily be any better for us on the Border Issue than Doofus is. Just a thought.

[bruinbirdman]

"Mr. Cheney is the driving force behind the Bush administration’s theory of the “unitary executive,” which holds that no one, including Congress and the courts, has the power to supervise or regulate the actions of the president."

Well, who supervises the boss? The shareholders? I don't think so. They elected him to represent their best interests.

The congress is the board of directors? I guess maybe. They can impeach and convict him, fire him. They can hold committee meetings and evaluate him.

Other than the duties and authorities deliniated in The Constitution (veto, appointments, CIC, pardons & reprieves, make treaties), the authority to do everything else has been given to him by Congress. Congress actually ceeded much of their authority to the President. Congress passed laws to create specific presidential authorities. These powers often take the form of "Presidential Orders." All perfectly legal, Congress gave him those authorities. They can remove them as they wish.

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