Massive Catch Up Part I -Dick Cheney Is a Dirty Weasel

Sorry to my 3 readers out there in Blogtown. I am having a massive 4 post rant on 4 things that really piss me off in recent news. First, I will verbally (textually?) attack our vice president for adding to the laundry list of things I hate about him. A new item to the list includes this beautiful article from the New York Times. I can't stand how much Cheney is allowed to do without any legal ramifications. Basically, under the Information Security Oversight Office, the executive office has to report on what kinds of classified information they classify and declassify. Cheney's office actually followed the procedure for the years of 2001 and 2002, but then for the LAST 5 YEARS has declined to include this information. The absurdity of this is outlined in the asinine statements his officials give:

Cheney's office claims it doesn't have to comply with the order because it is not an ''agency'' or ''entity'' within the executive branch

A White House official said the vice president's office never believed it was required to file the reports, and that when it realized it had done so in 2001 and 2002, it ended the practice.

Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is the only one with a head around here calling out the Vice President for being a total idiot as usual and demands to know how he is exempt from the laws that his office say aren't technically laws. He says:

The vice president can't unilaterally decide he is his own branch of government and exempt himself from important, commonsense safeguards for protecting classified information. And he can't insist he has the powers of both the executive and the legislature branches but the responsibilities of neither. Our Constitution doesn't work that way

*Cries* That was beautiful. I would like to give Waxman a hug if we ever cross paths. Hopefully justice will prevail, but I won't hold my breath too hard. I commend Waxman for at least speaking the truth. It blows my mind how much secretive mumbo jumbo gets kept under wraps with this administration. They are even impervious to the law! I'd like to end this post with a hilarious NYT quote from the same article:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked in January to resolve the legal dispute, but he has not yet ruled on the issue.

Mr. Gonzales didn't rule on this issue? Jeez...I can't imagine him doing anything suspicious, illegal, or detororiating to the integrity of the Judicial branch. This whole administration makes me want to bash my head off a stack of Constitution posters until it bleeds. Onward to the next disgusting thing.