tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post1388863253048196046..comments2024-03-28T17:24:16.483-04:00Comments on THE BLOG: SCOOTER'S BLUESRumpolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08380575650255695462noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-78103166907036278792007-06-26T17:25:00.000-04:002007-06-26T17:25:00.000-04:00Great post.But rumpole, re the Cheney fiasco, Tony...Great post.<BR/><BR/>But rumpole, re the Cheney fiasco, Tony Snow says his salary comes from the Senate.<BR/><BR/>That should settle it!Todd and in Chargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319113560351546412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-23152449855111961292007-06-26T00:41:00.000-04:002007-06-26T00:41:00.000-04:00New font?New font?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-1945969008775826812007-06-25T23:24:00.000-04:002007-06-25T23:24:00.000-04:00Rumps, watch the poor press secretary try and defe...Rumps, watch the poor press secretary try and defend Cheney today.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014826.php" REL="nofollow">Click here</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-41375558300718572922007-06-25T21:03:00.000-04:002007-06-25T21:03:00.000-04:00Rumpole its been sometime since Judge Blake, Judge...Rumpole its been sometime since Judge Blake, Judge P and other robed readers visted and posted a word or two. What gives?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-68671742858946813572007-06-25T20:18:00.000-04:002007-06-25T20:18:00.000-04:00#1- anything Maureen Dowd wants she gets on this b...#1- anything Maureen Dowd wants she gets on this blog.<BR/><BR/>2- as our previous comment shows, we have been following this lunacy- Cheney who has fought for expansion of executive power to the point where he has damaged this country- claiming the VP is not part of the executive branch. Priceless. These nitwits would be as funny as Broward if they weren't capable of doing such terrible damage.Rumpolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08380575650255695462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-35827525338807753662007-06-25T19:55:00.000-04:002007-06-25T19:55:00.000-04:00Rumps, I know you don't like entire articles being...Rumps, I know you don't like entire articles being posted, but this one is not widely available because it hides behind a subscription to Times Select. Your call on whether to post.<BR/><BR/>A Vice President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy <BR/>By MAUREEN DOWD<BR/>WASHINGTON<BR/><BR/>It’s hard to imagine how Dick Cheney could get more dastardly, unless J. K. Rowling has him knock off Harry Potter next month.<BR/><BR/>Harry’s cloak of invisibility would be no match for Vice’s culture of invisibility.<BR/><BR/>I’ve always thought Cheney was way out there the most Voldemort-like official I’ve run across. But even in my harshest musings about the vice president, I never imagined that he would declare himself not only above the law, not only above the president, but actually his own dark planet a separate entity from the White House.<BR/><BR/>I guess a man who can wait 14 hours before he lets it dribble out that he shot his friend in the face has no limit on what he thinks he can keep secret. Still, it’s quite a leap to go from hiding in a secure, undisclosed location in the capital to hiding in a secure, undisclosed location in the Constitution.<BR/><BR/>Dr. No used to just blow off the public and Congress as he cooked up his shady schemes. Now, in a breathtaking act of arrant arrogance, he’s blowing off his own administration.<BR/><BR/>Henry Waxman, the California congressman who looks like an accountant and bites like a pit bull, is making the most of Congress’s ability, at long last, to scrutinize Cheney’s chicanery.<BR/><BR/>On Thursday, Mr. Waxman revealed that after four years of refusing to cooperate with the government unit that oversees classified documents, the vice president tried to shut down the unit rather than comply with the law ensuring that sensitive data is protected. The National Archives appealed to the Justice Department, but who knows how much justice there is at Justice, now that the White House has so blatantly politicized it? <BR/><BR/>Cheney’s office denied doing anything wrong, but Cheney’s office is also denying it’s an office. Tricky Dick Deuce declared himself exempt from a rule that applies to everyone else in the executive branch, instructing the National Archives that the Office of the Vice President is not an “entity within the executive branch” and therefore is not subject to presidential executive orders.<BR/><BR/>“It’s absurd, reflecting his view from the first day he got into office that laws don’t apply to him,” Representative Waxman told me. “The irony is, he’s taking the position that he’s not part of the executive branch.” <BR/><BR/>Ah, if only that were true. Then maybe W. would be able to close Gitmo, which Vice has insisted he not do. And Condi wouldn’t have to worry every night that she’ll wake up to find crazy Dick bombing Iran, whispering to W. that they have to do it before that weak sister Hillary takes over.<BR/><BR/>“Your decision to exempt your office from the president’s order is problematic because it could place national security secrets at risk,” Mr. Waxman, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to Cheney.<BR/><BR/>Of course, it’s doubtful, now that Vice has done so much to put our national security at risk, that he’ll suddenly listen to reason.<BR/><BR/>Cheney and Cheney’s Cheney, David Addington, his equally belligerent, ideological and shadowy lawyer and chief of staff, have no shame. After claiming executive privilege to withhold the energy task force names and protect Scooter Libby, they now act outraged that Vice should be seen as part of the executive branch. <BR/><BR/>Cheney, they argue, is the president of the Senate, so he’s also part of the legislative branch. Vice is casting himself as a constitutional chimera, an extralegal creature with the body of a snake and the head of a sea monster. It’s a new level of gall, to avoid accountability by saying you’re part of a legislative branch that you’ve spent six years trying to weaken.<BR/><BR/>But gall is the specialty of Addington, who has done his best to give his boss the powers of a king. He was the main author of the White House memo justifying torture of terrorism suspects, and he helped stonewall the 9/11 commission. He led the fights supporting holding terrorism suspects without access to courts and against giving Congress and environmentalists access to information about the energy industry big shots who secretly advised Cheney on energy policy. <BR/><BR/>Dana Perino, a White House press spokeswoman, had to go out on Friday and defend Cheney’s bizarre contention that he is his own government. “This is an interesting constitutional question that legal scholars can debate,” she said.<BR/><BR/>I love that Cheney was able to bully Colin Powell, Pentagon generals and George Tenet when drumming up his fake case for war, but when he tried to push around the little guys, the National Archive data collectors I’m visualizing dedicated “We the People” wonky types with glasses and pocket protectors they pushed back. <BR/><BR/>Archivists are the new macho heroes of Washington.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-30777885242990939552007-06-25T19:23:00.000-04:002007-06-25T19:23:00.000-04:00Quit crying. Prisons shouldn't be fun. Besides, ...Quit crying. Prisons shouldn't be fun. Besides, how bad can they be? They don't seem to deter a lot of folks from committing additional crimes that subject them to more time...........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-59584656055855541742007-06-25T19:00:00.000-04:002007-06-25T19:00:00.000-04:00Rumpola- may I point out that the problem is not t...Rumpola- may I point out that the problem is not the Q- but his evil henchman JG, who does all the Q's courtroom dirty work. Together the two of them are starting an evil DUI empire and they must be stopped.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-68359680015650381892007-06-25T18:25:00.000-04:002007-06-25T18:25:00.000-04:00I don't eat fruit loops, and the power to pardon i...I don't eat fruit loops, and the power to pardon is given to the executive to use at his sound discretion. Bush came into office criticisizing Clinton for his pardon fiascos- and promising to do better. The question now is whether our president is a man of his word, or not. We shall see. If Bush pardons Libby, that is fully within his rights to do so. I would not choke.<BR/><BR/>I am more amused at the white house's current position that the Vice president is not part of the executive branch. Except of course when the VP needs to exercise executive privilege.Rumpolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08380575650255695462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-68692556724868202732007-06-25T17:57:00.000-04:002007-06-25T17:57:00.000-04:00can't wait for the day scooter is pardoned and you...can't wait for the day scooter is pardoned and you choke on your froot loops, Rump!<BR/><BR/>Your friend in the the islands,<BR/><BR/>CK<BR/><BR/>ps: the weather sucks today but the rum is a flowin'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-81933362098210600602007-06-25T17:53:00.000-04:002007-06-25T17:53:00.000-04:00Lets approach this from a different angle: why Sh...Lets approach this from a different angle: why Shumie?<BR/><BR/>Why not<BR/>Roy Black<BR/>coco puffs<BR/>roy black roy black roy black<BR/><BR/>marcus marcus <BR/>coco puffs<BR/>marcus marcus marcus<BR/><BR/>john schlessinger <BR/>coco puffs<BR/>john schlessinger john schlessinger<BR/>john schlessinger<BR/><BR/>works for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-84787751802017928182007-06-25T17:34:00.000-04:002007-06-25T17:34:00.000-04:00Free Scooter! Free Utpal! Free Korda! Free Maryjan...Free Scooter! Free Utpal! Free Korda! Free Maryjane!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-46134917098501472072007-06-25T17:29:00.000-04:002007-06-25T17:29:00.000-04:00Any of those who were defense attorneys before tak...Any of those who were defense attorneys before taking the bench most likely made one visit or more during our practice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-23786631614415825542007-06-25T17:23:00.000-04:002007-06-25T17:23:00.000-04:00I have easy money on W issuing a pardon just befor...I have easy money on W issuing a pardon just before he gets on the prison bus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-84848319238850619172007-06-25T17:17:00.000-04:002007-06-25T17:17:00.000-04:00Rump A better question is how many ASAs & Judges h...Rump<BR/> A better question is how many ASAs & Judges have been in the jail ( esspecially 8 & ( ) or the Annex (4th floor) or the stockade/TGK. A small weekend like Paris would be awake-up call for most.<BR/>D.SisselmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-81547809012221845432007-06-25T17:13:00.000-04:002007-06-25T17:13:00.000-04:00Catch that Shumie!! He's got me lucky charms!Catch that Shumie!! He's got me lucky charms!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-38101137723146125072007-06-25T17:07:00.000-04:002007-06-25T17:07:00.000-04:00Scooter: Ya pays yer money, and ya takes yer chanc...Scooter: Ya pays yer money, and ya takes yer chances.<BR/><BR/>Ask for kosher food and a solitary confinement cell. You don't want anyone doing to you what Cheney has been doing to the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-66115376121750520662007-06-25T16:32:00.000-04:002007-06-25T16:32:00.000-04:00Why coco puffs?WHy not shumie shumie apple jackssh...Why coco puffs?<BR/><BR/>WHy not shumie shumie <BR/>apple jacks<BR/>shumie shumie shumie<BR/><BR/>or even <BR/><BR/>shumie shumie<BR/>corn flakes<BR/>shumie shumie shumie<BR/><BR/>or my fav<BR/><BR/>shumie shumie <BR/>count chocula <BR/>shumie shumie shumieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-77355752981882434132007-06-25T16:09:00.000-04:002007-06-25T16:09:00.000-04:00Scooter Scooterpardon pardonscooter scooter scoote...Scooter Scooter<BR/>pardon pardon<BR/>scooter scooter scooter<BR/><BR/>sung to the tune of <BR/>shumie shumie<BR/>coco puffs<BR/>shumie shumie shumieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-5660085147049382382007-06-25T16:05:00.000-04:002007-06-25T16:05:00.000-04:00One person can save the day here. Guess who?Here's...One person can save the day here. <BR/>Guess who?<BR/><BR/>Here's a hint- start with the letter<BR/><BR/>Q!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-58079412002143048742007-06-25T16:04:00.000-04:002007-06-25T16:04:00.000-04:00The Scooter's going to prison? Holly Cow!!The Scooter's going to prison? Holly Cow!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com