On a lighter note
You really should be reading the Washington Post’s series on Vice President Cheney, if you haven’t been already. From what I’ve read there’s nothing shockingly new revealed but seeing it all laid out there
in one package is nice. In summery, the Vice President is quite powerful and quite awful which is not really a good thing at all. Sigh.
Anyway via Tim at Balloon Juice we get this old article from the Onion which also deals with the Vice President, though in a much more uplifting fashion. A snipit, if you would:
Telephone logs recorded by the National Security Agency and obtained by Congress as part of an ongoing investigation suggest that the vice president may have used the Oval Office intercom system to address President Bush at crucial moments, giving categorical directives in a voice the president believed to be that of God.
While journalists and presidential historians had long noted Bush’s deep faith and Cheney’s powerful influence in the White House, few had drawn a direct correlation between the two until Tuesday, when transcripts of meetings that took place in March and April of 2002 became available.
In a transcript of an intercom exchange recorded in March 2002, a voice positively identified as the vice president’s identifies himself as “the Lord thy God” and promotes the invasion of Iraq, as well as the use of torture in prisoner interrogations.
Laugh to keep from crying people. Laugh to keep from crying.
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