Big Trouble for Dick Cheney

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/22806

Big Trouble for Dick Cheney
by Brent Budowsky | July 14, 2009

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We don’t have monarchs in this country, we have elected officials who operate under the rule of law and take an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the land. No branch of government can unilaterally abrogate the rule of law. No official can unilaterally change the law, or evade the law, or make personal and unilateral decisions about what is legal and what is not, or unilaterally destroy the checks and balances that are essential to the American form of government.

Dick Cheney has caused big trouble.

Dick Cheney is in big trouble.

This is not about "whether we put this behind us" to win votes on the floor of the House or Senate for unrelated legislation.

This is about the rule of law in the United States of America and whether our highest officials honor their oath and their obligation to faithfully execute the laws of the land.

We can and should keep the CIA out of politics while pursuing the truth, based on the law, to ensure our laws are indeed faithfully executed.

No president, no administration, no vice president, of either party, at any time, is above the law. This core American principle must be upheld at all times, now and forever.

[opihimoimoi]

1. TRUTH MUST PREVAIL...Mongo from RockRidge

[boomerbust]

6. One of the greatest lines in movie history

"Me Mongo"

[MyOwnPeace]

2. And.........

to insist that the rule of law be followed is the AMERICAN way! :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[Demeter]

8. Failing That, Fallback Position is the French Revolutionary Way

and I'm deadly serious.

[get the red out]

3. Big money and Congress

I am becoming convinced that corporate interests must feel that justice would be bad for business.

[frebrd]

4. K&R!

[winyanstaz]

5. We cannot be a Nation with any honor

if we cannot enforce the laws equally.

[thelordofhell]

7. You know what they say.......

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

[Kablooie]

9. I agree with the sentiments but...

Unfortunately it IS about "whether we put this behind us" to win votes on the floor of the House or Senate for unrelated legislation.

Everything else you mentioned is a much, MUCH lower priority for our current Congress.

[Skittles]

10. where has that evil bastard been lately?

is he finding all his gasbagging failed to deflect investigation?

[Daveparts]

11. The Gas bag has finally

figured out that the people hate his guts. Everytime he appears on TV his approval ratings go lower.
Now remember his approval rating were already near those of Lee Harvey Oswald (No Fooling)
so he now sends his daughter out to defend him.

The people hate him, the CIA feared him, The Obama administration won't touch him cause he's just one of the boys.

[Doctor_J]

12. Hiding behind the skirt of his lying daughter

Big Media treats whatshername like royalty. I have never heard a single one of her lies challenged.

[yodermon]

13. I am convinced he has a nuke wired to his pacemaker

to detonate on remote control upon his death.

[Beam Me Up]

14. This country is no longer under the rule of law.

We've seen this repeatedly, especially over the previous administration. There IS NO ACCOUNTABILITY period. Despite their oaths, Congress and the Executive have repeatedly broken the law, lied about it and gotten away with it.

We are now a country under the rule of what amount to criminal syndicates operating behind corporate entities, government and military agencies and government officials -- all aided by a mostly uncritical (in any significant sense) corporate media.