The idea that Cheney was in charge has been sort of a popular joke for a long time. It's quite scary to see just how very true that "joke" has been.
Future historians will debate whether Bush was the worst President ever, not because of his record, but because some will say he shouldn't be counted as actually being President.
Posted by biggerbox at June 24, 2007 01:40 PMMost people have understood since 2000 that Dick Cheney is the de facto president. He was selected by Poppy Bush to babysit his boy and perform all the heavy lifting. The Kid is nothing more than a figurehead.
Posted by Christopher at June 24, 2007 01:57 PMexactly who is taking orders from who is, and will continue to be, a fun question for speculation. But, does it really matter? Either of these morons is apparently capable of committing the nation to war on a whim, subverting the Constitution as a matter of daily fact, orchestrating a system of corruption that extends, through the Justice Departement and probably the Supreme Court, to manipulate elections...the very crux of our Democracy. To devise purposefull means to ignore laws and actions taken by the Congress, and finally to simply torture people that do not agree with them. Both of these men, and many of their subordinates, are guilty of crimes of such magnitude that simply removing them from office is not suitable punishment. That they elections of 06 were allowed to proceed to their conclusions was something I didn't think they would allow. Now I see why they did. They had no intention of heeding the will of the people. They are, purely, rogues of the worst order.
Posted by T2 at June 24, 2007 02:01 PMThe government of the oil-nazis, by the oil-nazis and for the oil-nazis shall not perish...
until 1/3 of the Republican Senators finally decide it's time to flush these lying traitorous criminals.d
Posted by james k. sayre at June 24, 2007 02:45 PMBush is to the AmeriCo brand fist of fascism as the Hamburger Helper Helping Hand is to macaroni and ground beef. The notable difference is that Emperor Cheney taught him to use the big crayon to initial signing statements that disappear the Constitution and rule of law.
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Cheney, a weird frail and vile grotesquerie from central casting of a very shitty gangster movie, the Kaiser Sozay of our time.A perennial usual suspect.
But his frailty and inner emasculation is the very flaw that will cause him to fail spectacularly with the whirring wings of mortality from a stroke ever ringing in his ears like the a strange dictator in a Marquez novel.
This underscores the strange inversion of executive relations. If one of them actually had a clue we would be in way worse shape. Cheney was the guy whose head was dunked in the toilet in high school and W was one of the slack jawed bullies who dunked heads.
Shooter is Juniors keeper but Junior often rebels and chafes at the oversight in a world where odd syncophantic cabals rise, fall and reshape in waves of confusion that few direct participants seem to understand and the Wurlitzer is even more clueless.
Posted by Chris Rich at June 24, 2007 05:54 PMThe first person to utter the words "9/11 changed everything." - Dick Cheney.
The first person to hear them - GWB.
Posted by Flamethrower at June 24, 2007 08:31 PMWithin the past month or so, I saw a piece setting up a pitched battle between Rice & Cheney for the mind of Bush.
I recognized the picture as complete crap.
Symbolically, if Rice & Cheney were to be running alongside each other and Cheney hip-checked Rice, she'd go flying off into the bushes. If Rice hip-checked Cheney, he'd just get annoyed.
Posted by Rich at June 24, 2007 08:40 PMIt was obvious also when Bush and Cheney had to testify together (and not under oath) to the 9/11 commission.
Posted by zhoward at June 25, 2007 11:02 AM