cheney

One Evil Empire Down, One To Go
by Saab Lofton

On 1/31/08, 1:45 p.m., an activist named Steve Chase e-mailed me the following ...

"Some feel we may not even have 'elections' at all. Bush will declare himself king with Cheney as court regent. What do you think? How can we cope?"

... well, once I wrote Chase back, it occured to me that my response to him should be shared with the masses, so here goes:

Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" for U.S

Wed Oct 10, 2007

Jimmy Carter: Nobel Peace Prize winner for 2002, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster" for the country and a "militant" who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.

Cheney has been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including an internal White House discussion over Syria in which the vice president is thought to be pushing a tough approach, Carter said.

Clip from Democracy Now with former US General Wesley Clark explaining the US Global Takeover of the Middle East

Bush Won't Supply Subpoenaed Documents
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by Terence Hunt
Associated Press
June 28, 2007 by

President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.

Bush's attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over subpoenaed documents for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor.

In reaction, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy accused the administration of shifting "into Nixonian stonewalling" and revealing "disdain for our system of checks and balances."

Cost Of Cheney's Executive Office: $4.75 Million
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Reacting to the Office of the Vice President’s assertion that it is not an “entity within the executive branch,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) will introduce an amendment this week to cut off funding to Cheney’s office. Last night on MSNBC, he was asked how much money is spent on Vice President Cheney for an executive office he claims he’s not apart of:

MATTHEWS: Do you know, Congressman, how much money — how much money is spent by the taxpayer to give this guy a huge operations staff, a huge policy staff? He’s got travel all over the world. Do you know how big a budget he has right now?

Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him
Vice President Dick Cheney

ABCNews
by Justin Rood
June 21, 2007

Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies, according to a new letter from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to Cheney.