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"Neither Mr Cheney Or His Staff Is Above The Law..."
huffingtonpost.com — Title about sums up most people's feelings about this man and his staff
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- mtheoryx83, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16LOLZ, the whitehouse says cheney is not above the law, but bush is! Wow, whodda thunkit?
- bluechips23, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2No not Bush. Chuck Norris is!
- brian2k1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1No one is above the law. The Vice President however is not, regardless of what you may first think, under the rule of the President or even a part of the Executive Branch of government. VP is a special position unlike any other. It would be nice if the idiots in government spent more time learning about it and reducing taxes and less time complaining about anyone not in their particular party.
- figurearts, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Correct. The closet equivalents from history to the office of the VP would be the Prime Minister of Britain, or whoever presided over the Roman Senate. The VP is historically a very weak position, unlike these precedents, and has nearly zero power in comparison. Likewise, America has no king but a chief exective elected every 4 years.
- dmjarrington, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1America has no kings?... Are you aware that we have been under the oversight of a Bush or Clinton since the 80's?... We are approaching 30 years of rule under the same two families.
- figurearts, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Correct. The closet equivalents from history to the office of the VP would be the Prime Minister of Britain, or whoever presided over the Roman Senate. The VP is historically a very weak position, unlike these precedents, and has nearly zero power in comparison. Likewise, America has no king but a chief exective elected every 4 years.
- InferiorWang, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I AM ABOVE THE LAW! *splooge*
and now diggs new comment system will hide my abuse of the first comment.
- nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -4/+32nor?
- crossmr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4are? So the feelings its summing up are that we care as much about them as good grammar?
- crossmr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4are? So the feelings its summing up are that we care as much about them as good grammar?
- mdhauke, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3already on front page, buried as duplicate
- dumuzi, on 10/11/2007, -3/+23Anyone else feels hopeless? I feel like they can get away with pretty much everything and just give us ( lower/middle class) their middle finger. I don't like democrats or the republican, but something tells me a democrat would not be able to get away with what's happening right now in D.C. 9/11 Scared the ***** out of America and they took advantage of it by taking away freedoms. Seems like 9/11 was their wet dream.
I sure hate myself for thinking this way, but it's just damn scary.- rcook18, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Cheer up. Recent change for the good may outpace this administration's drive for this country's destruction.
- zweben, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2@rcook
In about 20 years at the rate it's going. Things need to be sped up drastically but at this point I don't have much hope that it's possible. - Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1What eventually stops most people is some kind of sense of shame. If you are a true believer in what you're doing (like Bush and his people seem to be), then you won't stop because you know what's best, god is on your side, etc.
The only thing that can put a halt to it is a bunch of guys with handcuffs. - lukehyper, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0or a revolution
- TheEditor1, on 10/11/2007, -17/+4This is getting sad, more item on this site are from liberal moonbat blogs than from real news sources. It is unfortunate that digg has been taken over by the radical left as another area to force their agenda down our throats. I for one with digg would go back to being a tech site the way we can get rid of thinkprogress.*****, rawstory.crap and huff & puff post.
BTW, BURIED AS SPAM, BLOG SPAM!
This is a sad day for digg. Its' demise is on the horizon.- skreenname, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Sir, I would like to point out that though the Huffington Post site does have a user content portion, it also has a legitamate news portion. As you can see in part of the site, the resource is from The Washington Post. Also, this is more of an informative bit of the whole story and the bias in the small summation of the article is slight. In other words QUIET YOUR BLOG SPAM
- TheEditor1, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1I will not QUIET YOUR BLOG SPAM. Don't like it, tough *****; I am tired of all the liberal ***** and lies on this site and the tearing down of America, its' military and its' government by a bunch of mealy mouthed, do nothing liberal morons that wouldn't know good government if it bit them in the ass.
- skreenname, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3This is a user controlled site. Sorry you can't control the users.
- TheEditor1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1and thankfully neither can you...
- rcook18, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Time to come up for air.
- keyboardduder, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The fact that you are so contemptuous over people commenting and reporting on president bush is doing so many things wrong makes me sick. We all know hes a *****-up. Just because someone doesn't like this president doesn't make them "liberal" "moonbats" "liveral". Oh, and burying someone for their opinion where the category clearly states "POLITICAL OPINION" really shows how childish you are. Im conservative in some ways and liberal in others. I look for the truth in the news and I HATE THE *****(P) that people like you love to propagate. People love saying what "team" they're on because its all a ***** game. Whoever wins the election, whoever is in office, its all a competition. Thats why theres so much smear in the news, thats why fox news loves to smear people, and thats why people like you love to bury people's opinion as lies and spam. LGF is a blog, i don't bury it's posts. How about you read an article for what it is worth and comment accordingly? How about you say that you don't think that its true, that its unfairly biased. Because the way youre acting, it shows your contempt for the opposing opinion and your own political pride and insecurity (of which).
- zweben, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I'm guessing you got banned from all the people blocking you and came back with a 1 after your username?
- TheEditor1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1bzzt...wrong, but thanks for playing
- miketrin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Actually he just went back to hate site littlegreenfootballs to stroke egos over there. He's that 29% that approve of this administration.
- TheEditor1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0bzzt...wrong, but thanks for playing
- skreenname, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Sir, I would like to point out that though the Huffington Post site does have a user content portion, it also has a legitamate news portion. As you can see in part of the site, the resource is from The Washington Post. Also, this is more of an informative bit of the whole story and the bias in the small summation of the article is slight. In other words QUIET YOUR BLOG SPAM
- smurf22, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6huffingtonpost? Am I the only one who giggles at that websites name?
- miketrin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Do you really "giggle"? I usually giggle after taking a "huff" of weed... well back when I use to do that... :)
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Er, usually my feelings are grammatically correct.
- roflcawpter, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10I'm ***** tired of all this *****.
Bush is delusioned with his war against the evil doing terrorists and Cheney is running the "Attack Iran Tour 07'" campaign.
Meanwhile mainstream media is spewing out Paris Hilton gossip news and talking about missing women.
UHFLX
Try this, how many people in the United States go missing a year? - TheEditor1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7mainstream media wouldn't know real news if it happened right in their own offices, so this surprises you
- anagoge, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6"Neither Mr Cheney Or His Staff Is Above The Law..."
I'm being picky, but that 'is' should be 'are', right?- Turdmoe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The title also fails to use "nor" in place of "or" after "neither"
- damonic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2No - I think it is supposed to be "Neither Mr. Cheney nor his staff is above the law..."
- koptc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Yeah, although it sounds wrong it is grammatically correct.
- uwjames, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Will people please post a direct link to the original article, instead of a link to some hastily written blog entry?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/22/AR2007062201809.html
"Vice President Cheney is expanding the administration's policy on torture to include tortured logic," said Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin - DestroyFascism, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5The death penalty for treason is still active yeah?
- zevgreen, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Honestly, the last thing I want to think of with Dick Cheney is "most people's feelings about this man and his staff". I do NOT want to know about HIS staff. Paleeeze, I won't ever eat again.
- miketrin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Guys, this administration is not working for the people anymore. It's all about corporations and foreign interests. We the people no longer matter. This administration has basically erased the middle class. Bush is pushing hard to let the illegal aliens in for cheap unskilled labor. He's pushing work visas for cheap skilled labor, with the patriot act he has stripped us of our freedoms. These same freedoms they said were the reason 9/11 happened. Remember, they hate us for our freedoms. Bull Hockey!
Our founding fathers told us this would happen and now it's too late to do anything about it. Welcome to Germany pre WWII. What country is going to come to our aid?- skreenname, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Albania
- SupaFupa, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I realize this is a hot story right now, I really do. Its a wildly intriguing and extremely frightening revelation But I cant discern one single piece of information that the Huffington Post adds to the Washington Post story it links to . Why and how did this make it to the front page? Digg is a news aggregator, not a news summary aggregator. If a blog is giving commentary, actually adding something to the news item, thats fantastic. But this is no different than one digg submission linking to a second digg submission that links to a news story, with the first submission claiming to link to the actual news story. Whats next, a front page link to an extremely brief summary of a very brief summary of an actual article?
Simply posting "This is Blog Spam" has detered no one. There has to be a better way to fight back against this *****. - Run4ny, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Sylvester Stallone playing Dick Cheney at a theater near you:
"I am the law!" - animus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Until there is action, then YES he is above the law.
Nobody will ever stop him. - cutesegirl, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Maybe his f*cking heart will explode!
- ljw5021, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I wonder if Cheney has spoken with Paris lately >_>
- zobs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Animal world
- zobs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Animal world
- silverwolf761, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Cheney SHOULDN'T be above the law, but the problem is that he is above the law
- Philonius, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Cheney is a Dick.
- smellytim, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yes thats true.
- radix76v2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Well, if it comforts you guys a bit: this does not only happen in the USA - it also happens here in germany.
With the new identitycards every citizen has to give his fingerprints, ip adresses of all internet connections will be logged, privately owned computers will be subject to an 'online search' and it`s still getting worse.
And the politicians are doing it all to 'safe our freedom'. The worst part is: they might even believe that.
And i guess citizens of other countries could tell a quite similar story.
The world currently looks like a mixture of 1984, Brazil and Dr. Strangelove, with some parts of Minority Report.
Sad.- ummagummas08, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2'A man who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither'
-Benjamin Franklin
- ummagummas08, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2'A man who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither'
- ummagummas08, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2He's not? Prove it.
- sQPha7e, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1"I AM ABOVE THE LAW!! (fixes hair with gel) " XD
- databoy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0The trouble with American's is that they do not know their own constitution. Read it carefully, you have a civilian government with a President and Vice President exempt from civilian constitutional powers when there is a declaration of war. Iraq is a war battle zone. As long as the war is in place your President and Vice President can do what they like. In effect you have a legal military dictatorship as defined by the USA Constitution.
- figurearts, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2One great big fallacy here: an Executive Order is not a law. An Executive Order is a set of instructions or guidelines to subordinates in the Cabinet, the military, etc. If the President orders a team of Marines to land on the roof of Huffy Post Headquarters, light up some Marlboros and make them all faint from the sight of passive smoke from the mouth of a gun owner, that is an order, not a law. Laws, in contrast, are passed by the legislative branch, not the President, who must also obey these laws himself. Go look it up.
- Yage2006, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Feelings ?
And not much else cause they can get away with whatever they want and they are above the law.
US needs to revamp its political system make it easier to get bastards out of office. A vote of no confidence for example like in canada. Anything even,
This is getting sick . - the3rdkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0The day there is justice in America for these corrupt a-holes is never going to happen.
- ericthegreat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1He needs to be prosecuted after they leave office so Bush cannot pardon him!
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