On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:30:23 -0500, "Dirk Diggler" <dirk@dirk.org>
wrote:
>1. Pelosi wants a bigger airplane - so much for helping out the
>environment... Of course, the liberal media ignores the story for almost a
>week. Had Newt asked for a bigger plane, there would have been a line of
>protesters forming within an hour of his request...
>
>2. Edwards owns the largest house in his county - I guess we know which of
>his "Two Americas" he lives in...
>
>3. Dems raise minimum wage in every sate and territory - except American
>Samoa. A.S.'s biggest industry - tuna processing. The headquarters for one
>of the two companies, StarKist - in Pelosi's home district. How much did
>they donate to Pelosi? Enough to make it matter....
>
I think that one should read House Republicans using procedural
tactics to kill or delay legislation to increase the minimum wage.
>Glad to be back...
I bet! Where else in life can you blatantly spread lies and
misinformation so easily?
>
>DD
>
whoops! you missed the really big one!
4. Cheney breaks laws left and right. Thinks he's above the
president. Very cool! Cheney's gonna get impeached first!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/...ak_white_house
"Why are you making these statements?" Addington asked White House
communications director Dan Bartlett.
"Your boss is the one who wanted" them, Bartlett replied, referring to
Cheney.
With that, "I shut up," Addington recalled recently for jurors in
Libby's CIA leak trial, which begins its fourth week on Monday with
Libby's lawyers calling their first witnesses.
So far, the testimony of Addington and other administration aides,
along with documents and Libby's audiotaped grand jury testimony, have
provided a rare glimpse of how the Bush White House scrambled to
respond to a political crisis as it intersected a criminal
investigation.
At the intersection was Cheney, along with Rove and Libby, who were
working in the summer of 2003 to rebut claims by Plame's husband,
former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, that Bush had misled the nation about
prewar intelligence on Iraq.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ar..._cid=rss:site1
An important legal ruling is pending over Vice President Cheney's
refusal to disclose statistics on document classification and
declassification activity. The Information Security Oversight Office,
which is responsible for the policy and oversight of the government's
security classification system, has asked Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales to direct Cheney's office to disclose these statistics.
Cheney's office provided the information until 2002 but then stopped
doing so, J. William Leonard, the director of ISOO, told U.S. News. At
issue is whether the office of the vice president is an executive
branch entity when it comes to supporting the activities of the
president and the vice president. The reporting requirements for
disclosing classification and declassification activity fall under a
presidential executive order.
Last week, in trying to break the lock on who actually works in
the OVP — which the Vice President refuses to reveal — the guys at
Muckraker stumbled across this entry from a government directory known
as the “Plum Book”:
The Vice Presidency is a unique office that is neither a part of
the executive branch nor a part of the legislative branch, but is
attached by the Constitution to the latter. The Vice Presidency
performs functions in both the legislative branch (see article I,
section 3 of the Constitution) and in the executive branch (see
article II, and amendments XII and XXV, of the Constitution, and
section 106 of title 3 of the United States Code).
It appears that Cheney’s office submitted this entry in lieu of a
list of its employees, as federal agencies must do. It sounds like
something Cheney’s current chief of staff, David Addington, might have
written. Cheney and Addington have been the among the most powerful
proponents of the theory of a “unitary executive,” but there are
indications that they have also advanced, though less publicly, a
theory of a constitutionally distinct and independent vice presidency.
Meet Dick Cheney — the independent, fourth-branch superpower of the
United States government.
