The Right To Dissolve The Constitution - By Dick Cheney


	The Right To Dissolve The Constitution - By Dick Cheney

BartendingBear

12-22-2008 12:17 AM

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BartendingBear says:

Somebody put this guy in a cell... quick, padded or otherwise.

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12-22-2008 7:33 AM

tabsey

Fingers crossed that he and the clown don't think of anything over the festive season.

12-22-2008 1:15 PM

Ilsadago1

I would advise going back and reading the entire interview...

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General proposition, I'd say yes. You need to be more specific than
that. I mean — but clearly, when you take the oath of office on January
20th of 2001, as we did, you take the oath to support and defend and
protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/the-right-to-di.html">The irony seems lost on him. How can the suspension of all laws into the power of the executive branch in wartime be seen as a defense or protection of the Constitution?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/the-right-to-di.html">What Cheney has advanced is that the president has the right to <EM>dissolve</EM> the constitution permanently. That he has the right to commit war crimes with impunity. That there is no legal authority to which he is <EM>ever</EM> required to pay deference in a war</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/the-right-to-di.html">Cheney's colorful explanation of this theory</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/the-right-to-di.html">He
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