CHENEY: "We Must Restore Some Balance" Between Congress & White House"

kpete

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:11 AM
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CHENEY: "We Must Restore Some Balance" Between Congress & White House"

Edited on Tue Jul-17-07 10:15 AM by kpete

(I laughed out loud this morning, kpete)

Jonah Goldberg:
My president's better than yours
July 17, 2007

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Steven F. Hayes' riveting new biography, "Cheney," recounts a discussion in 1980 at the American Enterprise Institute between two new congressmen, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich.

"Congress has been a big part of the problem," declared Cheney, a veteran of the Ford administration. "A fundamental problem has been the extent to which we have restrained presidential authority over the last several years. Consumed with the trauma of Watergate and Vietnam,
we have tampered with the relationship between the executive branch and the Congress in ways
designed primarily to avoid future abuses of power�.

We have been concerned with the so-called myth of the imperial presidency.

"We must restore some balance" between Congress and the White House, Cheney insisted.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg17jul17,0,6583631.column?coll=la-tot-opinion&track=ntottext

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whistle

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:13 AM
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1. To begin with, the congress can impeach both Dick Cheney and George Bush

....that will restore the U.S. Constitutional checks and balances to power!

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madokie

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:17 AM
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5. thats where we start

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AndyA

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:13 AM
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2. What a laugh. What a hypocrit. What an asshole.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Webster Green

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:14 AM
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3. I'm sick of living in opposite world..

Will we ever get back to the real world?

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TwilightGardener

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:16 AM
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4. He was also the one who expressed concern that toppling Saddam

during Gulf War 1 would result in chaos and civil war in Iraq. He knows all this stuff--nothing has been inadvertent or unintentional in the last 7 years. He is truly fucking evil.

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treestar

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:24 AM
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6. Restrain presidential authority it what the Constitution does Moran

Cheney really is a tool.

Authority! Authority over others! That's his mantra.

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driver8

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:25 AM
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7. "Hello, Kettle? You're black!"

Look up the word "hypocrite" in the dictionary and you'll find Cheney's mug sneering back at you.

Dick Cheney has got to be the biggest asshole in the world.

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tanyev

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Tue Jul-17-07 10:25 AM
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8. Cheney's perfect equilibrium:

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