Cheney has run utterly amok
In a scathing article on Slate, Bruce Fein calls for Cheney to be impeached stating that Dick Cheney has run totally amok and must be stopped. Fein, a Harvard Law grad from 1972 worked in the Reagan administration in various capacities including as associate deputy attorney general. Fein has previously testified before the US Judiciary Committee regarding the present administration’s excessive use of Signing Statements and the danger that practice poses to our democracy.
The nation’s first vice president, John Adams, bemoaned: “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet common fate.”
Then President George W. Bush outsourced the lion’s share of his presidency to Vice President Cheney, and Mr. Cheney has made the most of it. Since 9/11, he has proclaimed that all checks and balances and individual liberties are subservient to the president’s commander in chief powers in confronting international terrorism. Let’s review the record of his abuses and excesses:
