'It’s a little surreal’

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'It’s a little surreal’
Posted 9:45 am


The White House has had almost a week to come up with some semblance of a rationale for Dick Cheney arguing that he’s not part of the executive branch. There are some clever spin doctors in the vaunted White House communications office and some creative lawyers in the WH counsel’s office; surely someone will come up with something vaguely coherent, right? Wrong.

The explanatory task fell to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, whose skin reddened around her neck and collar as she pleaded ignorance during the daily briefing: “I’m not a legal scholar. . . . I’m not opining on his argument that his office is making. . . . I don’t know why he made the arguments that he did.”



I’ve either read the transcript or listened to the audio of every White House press briefing since 2003 and I’ve never heard anything quite like yesterday’s circus. I might have felt sorry for Dana Perino — her employers gave her an impossible task — were it not for breathtaking obstinacy.

ABC’s Martha Raddatz led off. “Does the president believe is part of the executive branch?” Perino refused to answer. Asked again, Perino said she’s not “opining” on the subject. CBS News’s Jim Axelrod suggested Perino was denying “sky-is-blue stuff” and pointed out that the matter revises “more than 200 years of constitutional scholarship.” Perino had nothing.

At my favorite point, Perino said, “I think that everyone is making this a little bit more complicated than it needs to be.” Moments later, when a reporter asked why she “can’t give an opinion about whether the Vice President is part of the executive branch or not,” Perino responded, “I think it’s a little bit more complicated than that.” In other words, as far as Perino was concerned reporters were making this controversy more complicated and less complicated simultaneously.

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We are living in surreal times - it's nice that occasionally they are entertaining as opposed to being heartbreaking.

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with sound bites and talking points, and that's all she and Snowjob really have at their disposal.

"and to put a fine point on it, we are republicon chickenhawk war profiteers, so you real patriotic Americans can just sit down and shut up -- Who cares what YOU think"

- White House

Perino is obviously in way over her head, and Dick Cheney is just going fucking nuts right before our eyes. Like a spoiled kid who never gets told no, he just seems to be making it up as he goes along now, just to see what he can get away with. And no matter how absurd his claim, he STILL gets away with it, and the limp-dicks in Congress refuse to slap him down properly. It's a total cluster-fuck between Congress, the media and the mythical "executive" branch.

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reporters in the room (I'm not sure who); he said that he could understand Cheney saying that he was either in the Executive or the Legislative branch, but how could he claim to be in neither? Good question. Also, didn't the Supreme Court say that Cheney was a member of the Executive branch in read to that secret energy meeting that he would not allow to be reviewed? I thought that he was allowed the cover-up because of his Executive Branch status. :shrug: