Constitution to Cheney: “WTF?”
“How much money are we talking here . . . I mean, is it ‘profane’ or ‘really offensive’?”
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Now you tell us!! “We didn’t set out to achieve the highest level of polls that we could during this administration,” Cheney said. “Eventually you wear out your welcome in this business.”
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Blames lawyers . . . Lincoln & FDR “went far beyond anything we’ve done in the WOT” but it’s quesitonable, at best, and the differences betw/ the Civil War and WWII are so far from the circumstances of the ‘war on terror’ that they are nearly laughable.”
Nuclear codes . . . THAT is why we need non-lunatics in charge. . . but Founders did not could not envisage a loon running around with the black box
Blames the country for pushing them . . . critics, political points, etc.
Congress may not “by stat. to alter Pres. constit. power, they cannot override the Pres. power.” War Pwers act is unconstitutional.
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070709/huq
“Discussed only in the convention’s closing days, the Office of the Vice President was initially dreamt up to solve a problem with presidential selection. Under the original Electoral College system, each elector had two votes and was constitutionally obliged to cast one of those for an out-of-state candidate. The Framers reckoned this was a way of counteracting the provincial inclination to vote for a home boy, a worry borne out in the 1796 election, which left Thomas Jefferson as Vice President despite a Federalist majority. But the Framers were puzzled as to how to stop electors from simply throwing away that second vote. Enter the Vice President. This secondary office solved the wasted vote problem. And rather neatly,
it solved at the same time the presidential succession problem.
Concerned that the vice presidency could be a staging post for a coup, the Framers cast about for some other function for the office. Drawing on the 1777 New York Constitution’s design of a Lieutenant Governor’s office, they hit on a solution–the Vice President would also serve as a tie-breaking president pro tempore of the Senate. This, they concluded, would justify his salary. Wearing his Senate cap, the Vice President would also conduct the presidential electoral vote count.”
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This is the most preposterous thing said by one of our elected officials ever. I wonder how a murder defense of “I don’t consider myself a citizen of the United States and therefor not bound by their laws” would fly.
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Waxman: http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070621095118.pdf
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“I think you can have a robust interrogation program with respect to high value detainees,” Cheney said.
