'Dick' Cheney Declares Self King!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Powers of the VP are outlined in Article I of the Constitution....not in Article II.

Cheney may have a point and certainly is not obligated to help his enemies by conceding anything he doesn't have to.

Enemies?

"To my knowledge, this was the first time in the nearly 30-year history of the Information Security Oversight Office that a request for access to conduct a security inspection was denied by a White House office," Waxman wrote.

Is the National Archives his enemy??

I don't pretend to understand all the intricacies of this, but the idea that every part of our government has someone else looking at it to make sure everything is legal is pretty damn holy to me. Since 9/11 the White House has been pretending it can do whatever the fvck it wants and that no one should be able to know what's going on - never mind say anything about it. I've been able to ignore it so far, simply to save my own mental state, but this is the last straw.

I am not a democrat, but this kind of bullsht could push me far enough to actually have an opinion on which party has control for the next four years. The idea that anyone could defend such blatant crap, or that any self respecting politician could actually stand behind this White House, is unfathomable to me.

I'm sorry sleepyjeff but this really gets me going.