Cheney's decades long history of supporting expansion and abuse of presidential power

[yurbud]

Starts with Iran Contra and goes back to Nixon.

At least he is consistent (though consistently fascist).

Hail to the chief

Dick Cheney's mission to expand -- or 'restore' --the powers of the presidency


By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | November 26, 2006


ANN ARBOR, MICH. -- In July 1987, then-Representative Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim.

President Reagan and his top aides, he asserted, were free to ignore a 1982 law at the center of the scandal. Known as the Boland Amendment, it banned US assistance to anti-Marxist militants in Nicaragua.

"I personally do not believe the Boland Amendment applied to the president, nor to his immediate staff," Cheney said.

Most of Cheney's colleagues did not share his vision of a presidency empowered to bypass US laws governing foreign policy. The committee issued a scathing, bipartisan report accusing White House officials of "disdain for the law."

Cheney refused to sign it. Instead, he commissioned his own report declaring that the real lawbreakers were his fellow lawmakers, because the Constitution "does not permit Congress to pass a law usurping Presidential power."

FULL TEXT:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/11/26/hail_to_the_chief?mode=PF

[acmavm]

1. When will the guy be tried for sedition?

se‧di‧tion  /sɪˈdɪʃən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
2. any action, esp. in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.
3. Archaic. rebellious disorder.


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—Synonyms 1. insurrection, mutiny. See treason.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
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WE, the people are the state.

[yurbud]

3. when government represents people not big business. Reminds me of Spanish Civil War...

Fascists fighting an array democratic forces that included hard-core leftists like communists. Hitler backed fascists, Stalin backed the democratic forces, and most of the West did nothing (at a state level anyway) because they didn't want the left to look attractive to their own people:

None other than Winston Churchill put it clearly when he said (as related in Helen Graham’s A Brief History of the Spanish Civil War) that the Western democracies put their class interests--their fear that the left-wing reforms carried out by the Republican government would be attractive to their own popular classes, contaminating them with a desire to change their own societies--ahead of their national and geopolitical interests: opposing Nazism and fascism in Spain.

http://www.counterpunch.org/navarro07192006.html

[Aviation Pro]

2. Small Dick....

..."Fucking" Cheney is barking mad. A modern day Nero and Caligula rolled into a fat turd, his resistance to releasing the Energy Task Force notes clearly indicates and presents strong anecdotal evidence that the war in Iraq was launched during this secret meeting.

John Conyers righteous gavel cannot fall swiftly or strongly enough on the noggin of this know-nothing gasbag. "Shoots Guy In The Face" should be removed, prosecuted and consigned to the worst hellhole of a prison in existence where his new name will become, "c'mere bitch."

[yurbud]

4. small dick rarely used (unless he rubs money on it)