Walter Mondale Delivers Blistering Attack on Cheney

Mondale issues blistering attack on Cheney
Eric Black


Former Vice President Walter Mondale today accused the current vice president, Dick Cheney, of a wholesale assault on the Constitution, the balance of powers, and the system that evolved since World War II to coordinate intelligence and defense policy.

"They wrecked that system," Mondale said this morning at a University of Minnesota scholarly conference on the vice presidency.

This isn't some academic difference of opinion over the proper balance between branches of the federal government, Mondale said, during a question and answer session after his prepared remarks:

"I think this was a brutal, deliberate policy to ignore a wide range of written laws and constitutional principles and the legitimate powers of Congress…It's different than anything we've seen in American history and I think it ought to be seen not as two responsible positions, but ought to be seen as a dramatic challenge to American's system of government."

In the case that led to the conviction of Cheney's top aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Mondale said Cheney functioned as "an ideological enforcer, silencing dissent, punishing critics, to sustain a flawed war policy based on cooked facts. It's all there. Read the case."

Mondale challenged an occasional theme that arises in interpreting the Cheney vice presidency, holding that because Cheney had no presidential ambitions of his own, he was more useful and faithful to the president. On the contrary, Mondale argued, this freedom from higher political ambition freed Cheney to disrespect the Congress, the American people and the law.

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Cheney is completely free to be a slave to his ideology, because there are no real consequences to his actions.

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he did precisely the opposite, to my disgust.

Words are not sufficient to stop him.

A fightin' Dem. Shout it from the rooftops:

"I think this was a brutal, deliberate policy to ignore a wide range of written laws and constitutional principles and the legitimate powers of Congress…It's different than anything we've seen in American history and I think it ought to be seen not as two responsible positions, but ought to be seen as a dramatic challenge to American's system of government."

Cheney and his neocon cult HATE AND OPPOSE the notions of democracy and 'Americanism'.

Cheney's lot, INCLUDING THE BUSHITES, are enamored with power-TAKING game.

Those crazy fucks imagine themselves, "royalty", AS IF THAT HAS ANY PLACE IN THIS WORLD, LET ALONE OUR COUNTRY!

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Everyone's bill comes due.

Cheney will pay his bill; most likely, through his family.

As much as he's avoided it, history will paint his soul as consuming and gross.

Who's this "us" you're really talking about Wally? Tearing the torture defenders and war criminal "apart" from the rest of "us" might seem a good idea, no? And the only thing really stopping impeachment is the circular, defeatist "wouldn't get anywhere" rationalization mantras.

Stop whining and DO some damn thing.

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i call BS. how can mondale cry over the damage this administration has done and is doing to the constitution of the US and at the same time discard the constitution's remedy for it?