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Apparently Uncle Dick has decided that the Office of the Vice President is a whole separate branch of government.
Except, of course, when he needs to invoke executive privilege to hide something he doesn't want the public to know about.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's blog has some of the particulars in this recent kerfuffle, including Congressman Henry Waxman's demands (in his role as chairman of the Oversight Committee) that Cheney cough up a variety of pieces of information regarding the Scooter Libby case.
And, as always, Our Hero Keith Olbermann has the requisite blast of righteous indignation.
I know this is being covered wall-to-wall on every newsy blog and mainstream news outlet, but I have come to the conclusion that every time shit like this is made public that it is the duty of every single American to shout from the rooftops about the unabashed abuse of power that has been the hallmark of these evil people. My friend Tony has recently discovered the following quote:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena." - Theodore Roosevelt
And while I appreciate that he is using this to chide me for getting my rant on (and I do take his point), it really is nothing short of an obligation to muster some degree of outrage about all this. There is little practical redress to the situation -- it is a foregone conclusion that there will be no impeachment proceedings despite more than ample grounds for prosecuting Cheney, and we are compelled to wait out the remaining days until January 20, 2009. One can only hope that the hue and cry is loud and prolonged enough to reach the ears of the several dozen individuals presently hoping to succeed him and convince them that this is the wrong path.
Or, perhaps the time really has come to take up arms and, as the Declaration of Independence says, "...institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
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