<p>Cheney claimed his exec privledge when he needed it to fight one investigation and now claims not to be part of the exec branch when he needs to fight another investigation. Maybe he doesn’t really know who or what he is.</p>
<p>by the way 636, why the nasty edge in every single post?</p>
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<p>For that matter, when was the Duke Lacrosse team acquitted of rape?</p>
<p>Now do you see how ridiculous a question that is? No charges = no need or means for acquittal.</p>
<p>Back on topic and away from the attempt to deflect attention away from Republican wrongdoing…</p>
<p>I heard late last night that Cheney is changing his tune now that Congress is threatening to remove the 4.5 million in funding for his office from the allocation to the Executive Branch. Apparently he’s planning to use the old “the underlings decided it, I didn’t have anything to do with it” to explain why he’s backing out of the “not part of the Exec. branch” position.</p>
<p>636–I keep trying to make sense of your “rape” question. Is that like “When did you stop beating your wife?”</p>
<p>The Fourth Branch of Government:</p>
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<p>"636–I keep trying to make sense of your “rape” question. Is that like “When did you stop beating your wife?”</p>
<p>don’t try, it won’t matter… Like a third of the country, 636 has suspended common sense to defend undefensible behavor by our executive branch. There isn’t a thing you can show them to make them change their minds… There has always been this type of person in our society in both parties… my president right or wrong instead of my country. They have trouble identifying between the two. </p>
<p>That’s why we have illegal wiretaps, torture and god knows what going on right now… and that’s all fine and good with some… You know cows never realize that they’re at a slaugther house until the 22 round hits them in the back of the head. That’s why they call it “stunning” the cow… the cow never sees it coming because they refuse to see what’s happening to them along the way.</p>
<p>But we have “pigheads”, and those that are “stubborn as mules”, and we all know that you can “lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink”.</p>
<p>What is it about those “stunned cows”? No good analogy for them?</p>
<p>“What is it about those “stunned cows”? No good analogy for them?”</p>
<p>I’ll work on one…
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<p>It was I was reading the post by 636 and remembering some past posts by others who accept bad behavior and even argue in support of it, depending on their polictial canidate… and I flashed back to my early teen years visiting a slaughter house in Top*****h WA. I watched the cows move from pen to pen, down a chute and next to a wall. </p>
<p>Totally unaware, actually pushing each other towards the wall… The a guy steps up with what looks like an old german grenade and hits them in the back of the head, stunned but not dead, they fall, the wall opens a chain comes out wrapped around an ankle and in seconds they are through the wall and suspended by the chain. Then a hammer and large knife to the throat and it’s over… within a few minutes they are processed…</p>
<p>I guess it’s the actual pushing each other to get to the last pen that reminds me. Some folks don’t see that what a government can do to people they don’t like, can turn around and do it to them too. Power changes hands. </p>
<p>"Sure they can tap my line anytime… " What happens if you found out they actually did? hmmmm…</p>
<p>Well, is this (delusional thinking) really surprising coming from Cheney?</p>
<p>After all, he still claims that Saddam had something to do with 9/11.</p>
<p>he is back in the executive branch!!! that ole executive privelage thing</p>
<p>you gotsa love Cheney’s lawyer</p>
<p>Cassel: If the President deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.</p>
<p>he’s a fun guy and one of the people behind Cheney’s interprutation of the law, something Cheney pretty much ignores</p>