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Please excuse the rather pornographic title, but no censorable filth anyone could possibly submit anywhere could ever beat the obscenity that is VP Cheney's latest indecent exposure.
As many of you no doubt know, the Big Dick has tried to pull the ultimate fast one in dodging an Executive Order - originally issued by President Clinton, but augmented by Bush - for an oversight agency within the National Archives to keep track of classified national security information.
By claiming that, by virtue of being President of the Senate, he is not subject to the Executive Order that required ALL agencies of the Executive Branch to submit to said oversight, Mr. Cheney appears to be arguing himself right out of the Executive Branch itself.
Now, the obscenities get better, given that the WH has had to scramble to cover everyone's tracks here and justify not just Cheney's insane, um, position, but...well, just about everything. Now it seems that the President himself has informed his subjects that neither he nor the VP are subject to this Executive Order. That Bush himself wrote. Seems he somehow omitted this rather crucial piece, this piece that would have said, well, this applies to everyone else in the Executive Branch, but "not to me and VP 'Shotgun' Dick." That was just, um, well..., an oversight.
Perfect.
But, it's really a non-issue because he wrote the damn Order and by golly he knows what he meant. And this is what he meant. The rule applies to everyone; everyone, but me and Dick.
But. I digress. (Though wasn't that little excursion a lark?) The point of all this is to alert everyone out there to the fact that Rahm Emmanuel (I know, not my fave corporate lackey Dem, but hey, he sometimes pulls one outa the fire) has come up with a downright ingenious response to this nonsense.
Seems he is taking the Big Dick mucho seriously, and upon hearing that the VP has divested himself of any membership in the Executive Branch, Rahm is introducing a bill in Congress that will (wait for it...) pull funding for the VP's salary and home (and presumably his "secret undisclosed location").
Ya gotta love it.
The alert part is important here: We must each and all of us contact our Reps and let them know just how strongly we feel about this proposal! Surely to God the 82% of Americans who despise the man can get their voices heard here!
Alert everyone you know about this. Then, first thing Monday, contact your Representative.
DO IT!!
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When you contact your reps on Monday, remind them it is exactly the three-year anniversary of "Elmer Fudd" Cheney telling Sen. Pat Leahy on the Senate floor, "Go fuck yourself," after the then and again now Senate Judiciary Committee chairman questioned Halliburton's war profiteering.
Who can forget that Cheney was Halliburton's CEO before selecting himself for Veep and continues to draw annual salary from Halliburton?
molly, GREAT catch! i'll be sure to include that little historical factoid in my comment to my rep.
Well, of course, Cheney's 'deferred compensation' is NOT a 'salary,' but a part of his golden parachute retirement or severance pay. A look at the amounts involved, a mere $150,000 or so, show that it isn't a salary. What kind of CEO of a major corporation would have a 'salary' barely in the 6 figures? (although I've heard Bill Gates has a very low annual 'salary,' that is beyond an exception to the rule, considering).
Of more import are the stock options that Cheney holds, which have increased in value from the low 6-figure range to about $8 million, as the stock price has about doubled. Supposedly these are pledged to go to charity, but then they carry the tax advantage as a deduction of whatever Cheney's marginal tax rate would be (probably roughly 30%).
sofla
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