Look at that, the Cheney story has gotten very interesting.
Let's start with Bush's rejection of Congressional subpoenas for documents of former White House staff, Harriet Miers and Sara Taylor, as part of the investigation into the prosecutor purge, claiming "executive privilege." This came close on the heels of yesterday's announcement that VP Cheney, while acknowledging he was part of the executive branch, would still reject oversight on how his office handled classified information, because it's not an "agency." Next up: subpoenas to the White House and Cheney's office from the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. Expect more of the same stonewalling from Bush and Cheney.
The news of the rejection of Congressional subpoenas and the impending constitutional crisis comes at the time of newfound (and long overdue) scrutiny into Cheney's dealings embodied in the recent Washington Post four-part series revealing details of the Vice President's powerful and unprecedented position in the government.
The chattering classes have turned against Cheney.
Wow. Just saw this O'Reilly interview with McCain over immigration, and I have to say it's refreshing to hear a prominent right-wing pundit reveal the garbage in his brain up front. The quote:
O'Reilly: Now on the left. The objection is, there's not enough illegal aliens in here. The New York Times wants open borders, they want all 12 million legal, people who will be legalized, to bring in their extended families, not just wives and children, but moms and dads, brothers and sisters. This would lead to, by my calculations, 40 and 50 [million] foreign nationals being absorbed into the United States in the next 12 to 13 years.
That would sink the Republican Party, I believe. You'd have a one-party system, and change, pardon the pun, the whole complexion of America! Am I wrong?
McCain: No, you're right. The second thing on the left they're against, is the temporary worker, as you know. We say two years, go back for a year, come back for two years. They don't want that, they don't want them to have to go back -
O'Reilly: You understand, I'm not saying this in a condescending way, you're smarter than I am, but do you understand that the New York Times wants, and the far left wants, they want to break down the white, Christian male power structure - which you're a part, and so am I - and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have? In that regard, Pat Buchanan is right.
