Vote to defund Cheney this morning.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel’s (D-IL) amendment to restrict the $4.75 million budget for the Vice President’s Office will be voted on today, with debate beginning around 11:30 AM. (Read the text of the legislation HERE.) In a statement this morning, Emanuel addressed Cheney’s supposed reversal yesterday:
As you know, the Vice President previously claimed he was exempt from an executive order governing classified materials because his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.” Yesterday, the Vice President changed his argument, saying he remained exempt from the order because he is a member of the executive branch.
While the excuses may have changed, the Vice President’s willingness to ignore the rules remains just as strong as ever. Democrats are prepared to hold the Vice President accountable and ensure that no one in our government is above the law.
A graph from Emanuel:
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You gotta admit, shooting people in the face is a pretty good way to check and balance the other branches’ power.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:17 amGod, what a truly EVIL man.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:17 amThe Dick Branch.
-GSD
June 28th, 2007 at 10:20 amTaco Bell is “forthmeal”.
Cheney is “Forthbranch”.
I do not crave him late at night.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:21 amEmanuel better be careful. I’m sure Cheney is warming up a bed at Gitmo for him!!
I usually disagree with Emanuel on many things, but this is outstanding stuff.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:21 amMy conclusion is that the current administration consists of “The Boys from Brazil.”
June 28th, 2007 at 10:23 amOtherwise, how could one explain the confluence of so many fascist bastards in one place?
Any person who can shoot a “friend” and get said friend to APOLOGIZE for stopping Darth’s buckshot with his face is one scary dude!!!
So watch out Emanuel, after all, he only SHOT his friend, what will he do to you?
June 28th, 2007 at 10:25 amWhy don’t they defund the VP and Prez until the documents are released.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:26 amImmigration bill? What immigration bill? We need to bury Cheney under this measly chunk of change ‘outrage’. MORE MORE MORE
Meanwhile, the pols of BOTH sides are busy arriving at a sweet bipartisan consensus to raise their pay by $4,400 to reach $170k per year. COLA is alive and well.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:28 amSadly, this won’t get anywhere and Cheney will end up looking stronger. If I’m wrong that’s a great thing but, I hope the dems did their homework before bringing this to the floor.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:28 amSo watch out Emanuel, after all, he only SHOT his friend, what will he do to you?
Cheney will make Emanuel disappear into the American Gulag System to die, working himself to death digging in a Cheney-owned mine in Virginia or something.
Cue the scary music.
I love you guys, the batshit-crazy things you come up are always good for a laugh.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:30 amImpeach Darth Dicky Cheney. Trying to cut off funding to him will fail.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:30 amAs long as the partisan politics continue, instead of them taking care of our country, these idiots will be a complete and utter failure just like the last Republican led Congress.
Comment by Conservatron
Have to chuckle at that statement. This group in the WH is the most partisan to ever darken the halls there. And that covers a LOT of time.
But it isn’t partisan when it is YOUR party in office, but as time moves on, history will show this to be the most corrupt and the most damaging we have ever had in Washington.
But you are too close to it so you are blinded by it. GO overseas sometime like I do, and you will see how things really are, from a “no-partisan” POV.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:31 amSimply brilliant…
I wrote my elected neocons and told them that they needed to put side their blind party loyalty and stop Cheney from violating the Constitution. As usual, they ignored me…
June 28th, 2007 at 10:31 amImpale Darth Dicky Cheney.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:31 am#7 - “As long as the partisan politics continue,” Comment by Conservatron — June 28, 2007 @ 10:23 am
And here I thought you LIKED what the Congressional Republicans fostered when they were the majority!
Then again, like a typical NeoCon-tard, your rose-colored glasses refuse to allow you to see the truth of the entrenched Republican partisan political machine.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:33 amComment by Conservatron
So many words and no content.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:38 amSay, that’s a great picture of Deputy Leader Dick.
Um, Conservatron, I think I heard this line – “think on your own child, you may get somewhere in life, kid†– on “Spongebob Squarepants†the other day.
But, hey, we all have our own sources …
June 28th, 2007 at 10:38 amIt is not Bush or Cheney to be blamed….but rather the Congress.
All governments and rulers like to accumulate as much power as they can.
Thru history, it has been the case…but also historically people distrusted leaders and put some ristrictions on them.
Cheney is trying to maneuver around laws in the books.
Cheney is no exception to this…the maneuvering attempts has been excercised by people in power in the past, but what is surprising is that the Congress is showing weaknesses on this issue which helped to encourage Cheney & company to resist Congress attempts to limit his powers.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:39 amCheney : God, what a truly EVIL man.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:44 amComment by Conservatron
So many words and no content.
Comment by Juan C — June 28, 2007 @ 10:38 am
good to see Valianthehater back, no?
June 28th, 2007 at 10:45 amPoor little creature has to constantly change his posting name.
Sad. Truly sad.
Poor little creature has to constantly change his posting name.
Sad. Truly sad.
Comment by DRxJ
I think he is President Clinton. ValianttheHater/Howsad spoke to me in Spanish with insults, and PC never did that.
I dont know, I dont care, both are annoyingly stupid posting complete paragraphs of absolutely nothing.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:48 am#22 Tarazan
You are right and what is so interesting is to see the two most powerful people in this country (Darth and Rover) and how they get their rocks off using their handpuppets (Dubya, Gonzo, Scalia) to do what they could never do on their own.
Neither of those two pasty boyz could EVER get elected to the office of President, so they jerk their chains behind the curtains.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:49 amCheney is done for.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:50 amAbsolutely Brilliant…
June 28th, 2007 at 10:50 amMy approval of Congress should this pass will increase 10 fold in one bold move. Do this thing & follow through on those subpoenas. I guarantee if we the People see Congress standing up for what is right we will back you 100%. Peace through strength…
As my dear grandmother always said to me : “Honey, it all comes out in the wash”.
And the same applies to EVIL Cheney.
Doesn’t it seem like every day someone in Chimpy’s (The Alcoholic) Crime Cabal Admin. is EITHER :
*resigning
*under investigation
*OR INDICTED.
This is the most COVERT, CORRUPT administration in the history of this country. I love my country but FEAR my government.
This country is no longer about the PEOPLE : it’s all about Darth Cheney and how he circumvents the law.
How does this PIECE OF SH*T (with all of his deferrments) look at himself in the mirror every morning knowing he is sending the men and women to fight for a non-existent enemy.
We have met the enemy and he is US.
Cheney’s dastardly deeds, will come out in the wash.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:50 amEmauel: your diversionary tactics are so transparent. It’s a nice bit of theater, but it’s all just a bullsh!t show.
If you want to stop funding something, get off your DLC corporatist ass and STOP FUNDING THIS OCCUPATION you slimy sonofabitch. You aren’t distracting us with your dangling shiny ring of keys one bit.
Anything less will kick your corporatist candidate Hillary Clinton into the dustbin of history where her triangulating ass belongs.
You’d better take this news flash back and report at your next DLC meeting.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:59 amhmmmm.
unlike conservatron, who seems to need the authoritarian guidance of his conservative masters, most libs i know — and the problem with the democratic party is this — DON’T march in lockstep. they can’t form a coherent and easily explained message, and if they had one they couldn’t stay on it.
and they’ve been letting right wingers and their sheep-like followers (dolts like conservatron) wrongly define who they are to the public for the last couple of decades.
if you can’t figure out what the problem with dick cheney is, than you are not using your brain.
simple fact: if gore had attempted what cheney is doing now, we would have never heard the end of it. witness that gore didn’t even attempt a miniscule fraction of what cheney has done, and we still don’t hear the end of it.
it’s a whole new century conservatron, try to catch up.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:02 amCheney’s dastardly deeds, will come out in the wash.
Comment by Kay
Sorry, Kay, but there ain’t enough bleach in the world to get out that stain.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:03 amConservatron — if you are going to post “facts” and “statistics”, could you post some links? While the approval rating for Congress is low, it’s not as low as 14%. Newsweek’s poll conducted on June 18-19 has it at 25% and Gallup’s poll conducted June 11-14 has it at 24%. Still low, but not as low as you paint it. But the low rating isn’t due to the “partisan politics” the Dems are supposedly engaging in (like they’re the only ones?), but because the Dems have not done what they were elected to do — end the war in Iraq and hold the White House accountable for their actions.
You also claim that Rahm Emanuel belonged to “an administration that holds the record for the most indicted and convicted members”. Please post your evidence that Clinton’s White House had more members indicted and convicted than Reagan’s or Nixon’s administrations. Otherwise it’s pretty obvious you’re just making your information up.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:03 amlol what a prop!
June 28th, 2007 at 11:08 amwhen some are above the law there is no law. How do I explain to my teenagers the actions of the lawless men running this country? How to explain this criminal enterprise that stole our nation? Don’t break the law I tell them, but it just bounces back that the rich don’t have to, why should they? This is what I was told by a teenager yesterday. Find a way to break the law, it is the only way to get ahead.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:20 amWe are screwed.
They need to do the same with the President until he complies with the subpoenas.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:24 amI watched a video on MSNBC and the reporter talking about this said this investigation could last way after Chimpy and his Cohorts in Crime leave office.
Imagine all the Crimes that can committed until these thugs leave.
Oh, God.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:33 amIt’s like this country is being run by the Mafia.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:39 amThat has got to be the ugliest chart I’ve ever seen.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:41 amGeez, somebody send him to warm a cup of coffee in the microwave and lets see if that pacemaker keeps on tickin’…
June 28th, 2007 at 11:45 am“Emmanuel belonged to an administration that holds the record for the most indicted and convicted members.”
That would be Reagan.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:47 am#35 By golly missmolly, you are exactly correct. Mr. Rightwing nutcase should show us some facts before running off at the mouth. Isn’t a Conservatron some kind of a Republican robot?
June 28th, 2007 at 11:48 amI’m sure that chart really hurt Cheney’s feelings.
Wow, Rahm, great work.
How many people did we murder and torture yesterday? Who cares. How many of our children, brothers, and sisters died yesterday serving this nation honorably but being misused and exploited for our tyrannical crusade? We don’t give a shite, they are just niggas and spicks any way.
Our focus and our energies are concentrated and directed at the urgent and most necessary task of publicly calling V.P. Cheney a “dick”.
Progressive indeed.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:49 amEmmanuel’s ploy is cute, but ultimately counterproductive. Defunding the OVP only gives credence to cheney’s crap. Congress should just reject the notion and if it has to, investigate cheney’s misuse and abuse of secret information.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:51 am.
Our focus and our energies are concentrated and directed at the urgent and most necessary task of publicly calling V.P. Cheney a “dickâ€.
Progressive indeed.
Comment by Fed the Fcuk Up! — June 28, 2007 @ 11:49 am
Yea?
And WHAT the hell are YOU doing about it?
Cause all I see is a big mouth who comes in every day and accuses everyone else of doing nothing but talking, which of course is all he’s doing.
What’s your great contribution mouth?
June 28th, 2007 at 12:04 pmConservatron - 14%, huh? Isn’t congress something like 53% Democratic and 47% Republican (at best)? If it weren’t for the Democrats, the congressional approval ratings would be in the single digits.
The Republican Congress has vetoed TWICE as many bills than the PAST FOUR administrations COMBINED.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:05 pmI think it needs to be more than just unfunding. I believe if he is NOT part of the Executive, Cheney should not be able to reside in the VP’s residence, I believe he should not be entitled to protection from the Secret Service, I believe he should not have an even larger staff than the President of the United States, paid for by the taxpayers of the US. He should not have his own shadow National Security Council and he should not have access to Classified material, nor should his staff. He should not be able to claim himself protected from subpoenas and oversight claiming the Executive Branch when it suits his purposes.
He should definitely not be getting all the money he gets to run his office if he is not considering himself part of the Executive.
He can’t play it both ways. If he is exempt from RULES governing the executive branch OR the legislative branch, then he should be exempt from being paid as a member of either of those branches. He is paid by the American people and he is accountable to them. They CAN cut off his funding if he won’t play by the rules that are put in place to protect the American people from exactly this kind of behavior and abuse of power.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:05 pmComment by Conservatron — June 28, 2007 @ 10:23 am
Lord, with these As#holes we have to deal with, please help us.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:19 pmI see that Cheney has his minions out in full force today.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:20 pm#47,
We all have our roles to play. Don’t whine to me because you chose the role of “lemming”.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:24 pmtask of publicly calling V.P. Cheney a “dickâ€.
Progressive indeed.
Comment by Fed the Fcuk Up!
Hey, we’re just calling him by his name. He could go by Richard, but he’s much to much of a bonafide prick.
Dick is more appropriate.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:33 pmI know Cheney is the 4th branch of Government, but somehow they just don’t look right in that order!
June 28th, 2007 at 12:47 pmHe’ll just become the first fully privately funded VP.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:48 pmLike?
June 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pmYou could try to make the argument that there are pedophiles on both sides of the political, but maybe, just maybe, there is a correlation between conservatism (or a strict code of moralism) and a propensity towards pedophilia. Hear me out for a second. Many people who have an urge to do something wrong (be it shoplifting, or robbery, or drugs or child abuse or rape) KNOW it’s wrong. They might in fact try to fight it, to the point of suppressing any sort of socially liberated thoughts. Which is why they embrace GOP-esque conservative causes, or enter the clergy. By preaching to others to abstain, not to give in to temptation, perhaps they can save themselves from the temptation. But humans is as humans does, and eventually, the urge to wrong proves too strong. In fact, the effort to be really “good” becomes so stressful, they feel entitled to be really “bad” once in a while, as opposed to godless heathens like me, who are generally pretty content living their lives as they fit, absent of an organization’s moral code, and therefore have no urge to break a law or a young girl’s cherry. Of course, it could also be that they’re friggin’ hypocrites and shameless opportunists. And it’s also possible that I don’t know what I’m talking about. But hey, it makes sense to me.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:00 pmCHENEY 2008!!!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:12 pmWow that didn’t go so good there BARTELBEE you frakin idiot! Like I said to you a million times. The BushCo needs to be impeached, the constitution restored and the war ended. The only people that can do that now are the actual US citizens. This thing makes Congress the PUNISHER of Cheney. You are an IDIOT and to that you can now go and sit on a stick this made the Dems standing by the de-funding look like you BARTELBEE frakkin idiots!!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:23 pm#53 — let’s hope so, regardless of who the Democrats put up against him, they’d win in a landslide. Of course, Dick would not be likely to last through the campaign trail, just imagine what would be exposed if the press were around him on a regular basis. It would have to be the first Presidential race where a candidate bases ops in Dubai. :)
June 28th, 2007 at 1:27 pmComment by BARTLEBEE — June 28, 2007 @ 12:04 pm
You seem to be missing some chromosomes BARTLEBOOB! There are many idiots that post here BARTLEBOPPLE but you are their leader! GFY
June 28th, 2007 at 1:27 pmI would love it if Cheney got the nod in 2008, nothing would guarantee a repbulican loss more. Aside from a Romney/Guiliani ticket.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:35 pm#55 It would have to be the first Presidential race where a candidate bases ops in Dubai. :) Comment by notsurprised
And it would be the first time a Presidential candidate would have the “Sponsered by Halliburton” logo all over everything like a NASCAR driver’s racing suit.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:36 pmTP is SNL. When is TP going to start doing skits.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:05 pmYou have some great writers/bsers here.
Good god. If they can get away with this, who knows what’ll end up happening.
We have GOT to punish them for abusing and breaking the law!
June 28th, 2007 at 2:21 pmIn case you missed it Emanuel’s amendment was voted down there will be a recorded vote later but as many realized this would be Unconstitutional if accepted. Worse than that the Democrats supporting the amendment cheapen the whole process. If Cheney refuses to comply with all requests and it is determined that he broke the law the only possible solution is to impeach him. It has not been officially determined that Cheney committed a crime so Emanuel’s amendment is intended to punish the VP for what? The role of Congress is not to punish through legislation. Those offices are to always be funded as was agreed.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:22 pmSimply brilliant…
I wrote my elected neocons and told them that they needed to put side their blind party loyalty and stop Cheney from violating the Constitution. As usual, they ignored me…
Comment by unbelievable
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If you ask unbelievable, and no we did not, by the way - She would abolish all religions were she elected as dear leader in 2008.
unbelievable wants to start her own cult.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:22 pmworship unbelievable
Flaco,
At least Unbelievable is an identifiable thing to worship, and we can prove she exists.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:28 pmUsing Religion to Answer the Unanswerable Questions
By Me. Not Associated with any Press. June 28th, 2007
Breaking:
Mr. Flaco Flatulence of Virgina states science cannot answer the ultimate question: Where do we come from? In light of this claim, Mr. Flatulence defaults to an answer only found in a popular publication known as the Bible (research). Mr. Flatulence points out we must have come from God then, there is no other available answer.
According to Sarah Silverman, who had a one night stand with God, that is not the case. God reportedly said he created the Universe, that’s it. Ever since, God has let things take an automatic course so to speak. “God really doesn’t care about much more than getting laid with intelligent, sexy women.” Ms. Silverman points out.
In responding to this, Mr. Flatulence admitted he needs to have an answer to this unanswerable question, and really doesn’t agree with Ms. Silverman. “So I turned to the Bible” he states. “The Bible has ways of explaining everything, and since I am pretty scared as a person, I embrace a book written by other men, to provide such lofty unanswerable answers.”
Calls to God were not immidiatly returned.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:41 pmAs my dear grandmother always said to me : “Honey, it all comes out in the washâ€.
yes, but someone has to turn on the washing machine!
June 28th, 2007 at 5:33 pmGood job voting this creep in. Twice.
Pretty sure the GOP has a few more just like him to handle for the next 8 years.
Pretty sure the Republicans will vote that one in too. Twice.
I like Republicans all except for that small trick they have to overlook evil to get a tax break.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:36 pmyep - defund him…impeach him and seize his assets to repay what he and his cronies have stolen
June 28th, 2007 at 9:33 pm…Checks and Balances, not Fear and Paralysis! Come ON, America!!!
June 28th, 2007 at 9:48 pmHe’s not in the Executive and not in the Legislative, he’s a hybrid–a hypocriff!
June 29th, 2007 at 8:11 amIt’s time Mr. Cheney to come out from behind the Bush and face the day with honesty. How wonderful it would be to hear the truth, the real truth. No one is above the law, not even you Mr. Cheney. As stated before, “the people are coming” and we demand the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…………………….
June 29th, 2007 at 9:48 amMary
How did Ron Paul vote on this? Anyone know?
June 29th, 2007 at 12:58 pm‘the Dick’ Cheney may not have broken the law–perhaps what he did was resign from his position and violated his Oath of office, in which he agreed to the terms of the office he was taking. That’s fair. And defunding an office which has no inhabitant is not a punishment.
Now let’s get on with the job of selecting a replacement.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:10 pmIt seems a scheme to possibly avoid further possible criminal offenses, by hiding more heinous crimes? Risking only a charge of obstruction of justice?
June 29th, 2007 at 8:50 pmI think it is a pity that this man who was not voted in to office by the people has so much power. I am sure all the wire tapping was not to spy on people like myself but rather his political opponents. Its blackmail which ever way you would like to place it. I am sure people did not speak up because this evil man had something on them. I will not pay my taxes next year and neither should you I will never allow one cent of my hard earned dollar to go to supporting this $5 million dollar bottom feeder. Send me the supeona.
July 1st, 2007 at 10:52 pmIsn’t the “crime team” in the executive branch like the mafia we saw in the 1920’s? As such, watch the rats dissapear when the light shines on them! I wonder if this group could also be likened to the terrorists? I have faith in our founding fathers and the Constitution that made this country so strong prior to “Big Daddy Bush’s” years. We just need to allow the process to unfold. Then, just like with Mussolini, can we skin them and hang them in Times Square??
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 amPLEASE IMPEACH CHENEY AND BUSH!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
STAND UP TO THIS ADMINISTRATION!!!!!!
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 pmIMPEAH CHENEY.
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 pmI’m tired of this cabal!
July 2nd, 2007 at 10:08 pmImpeach President Cheany
I just want to see a “good ol’ American tar and feathering” and then run em out on a rail, try em, and hang em for treason…All of em….Good ole’ American style………Yep….Punishment fits the crime…and their wives too!
July 5th, 2007 at 8:39 pmGood ol’ American style……that’s what our kids need to see. Now that’s a conservative for ya….Yep….