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Politics The President is God!
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:59 PM
CNN reports:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney had his facts wrong when he blasted Attorney General Eric Holder last week for launching an investigation into past CIA interrogation techniques, an administration official asserted Monday.Cheney is so funny. He really believes that the power structure of the former administration is identical with the power structure of the current administration and all other administrations. Only a man who has no idea what "power sharing" is about would believe that "the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the land."
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has repeated his defense of enhanced interrogation techniques.Holder's decision to review waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques was politically motivated, Cheney claimed in remarks broadcast on "Fox News Sunday.
Cheney made clear in the interview, conducted Friday, that he believes that President Obama directed Holder to launch the review in response to pressure from left-wing Democrats.
But the administration official, who asked not to be identified, said, "the attorney general made a determination independently, based on the facts and the law."
The official also objected to Cheney's statement that "the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the land."
"That's not true," the official replied. "It's the attorney general."
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Head of the executive branch of the government and executive in chief of the military forces.
Calling him "the chief law enforcement officer in the land" doesn't really strike me as a false or inaccurate statement.
Context matters here, of course.
But, okay, I'll play along....
DICK CHENEY SUCKS!!! BOOOOO!!!! HISSS!!!!!
Calling him "the chief law enforcement officer in the land" doesn't really strike me as a false or inaccurate statement.
Context matters here, of course.
But, okay, I'll play along....
DICK CHENEY SUCKS!!! BOOOOO!!!! HISSS!!!!!
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The whole "president as chief law enforcement officer of the land" was brought up by Conservatives when they were grasping at a rationale for impeaching Clinton - perjury might not be a "high crime or misdemeanor" for anyone else, but for the "chief law enforcement officer of the land...."
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If only the dick that is Cheney suffered from this sort of delusion.....but there are many (dicks) like him even on Slog of all places.
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Considering the Executive Branch of the govenment is to enforce the laws passed by Congress, it's not an entirely inaccurate statment. Of all Cheney's crimes, I would rate that statement pretty low.
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Bush, Cheney, and all their ilk are the chief reason why I'm being patient on this Administration's lack of movement on teh gayz.
It's my belief that the Constitution clearly backs full equality for gay people and that all of those discriminatory laws are in fact illegal.
So yeah, Our O could make sweeping changes in longstanding policies just by executive fiat.
But that is the way of The Enemy and we will have no truck with it.
It's my belief that the Constitution clearly backs full equality for gay people and that all of those discriminatory laws are in fact illegal.
So yeah, Our O could make sweeping changes in longstanding policies just by executive fiat.
But that is the way of The Enemy and we will have no truck with it.
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This would be even more amazing if Cheney said it during the Trials of the unindicted International War Criminals, while he waited for his turn in the dock, after John Yoo and Scooter Libby.
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Could it be that Cheney, like Nixon, assumes that everybody is as venal and underhanded as he? Naww....
Always remember, most people think they're normal.
Always remember, most people think they're normal.
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Dear Dick Cheney.
Please keep talking. And talking and talking and talking. For as long as it takes.
Please keep talking. And talking and talking and talking. For as long as it takes.
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"but there are many (dicks) like him even on Slog of all places."
Yes, because internet trolls being "mean" to you is the same thing as Cheney's level of assholery. God, how could you even think to conflate the two? You're delusional. People don't like you because your sense of bigoted entitlement. Cheney doesn't like others because they're things. There's no empathy, very little humanity to be seen.
Yes, because internet trolls being "mean" to you is the same thing as Cheney's level of assholery. God, how could you even think to conflate the two? You're delusional. People don't like you because your sense of bigoted entitlement. Cheney doesn't like others because they're things. There's no empathy, very little humanity to be seen.
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