Cheney has more balls than brains! OR, Dubya should be called Dubious!

It still floors me to what extent the Bush administration will sink to in order to run things according to what they think is right and moral.

We have a bunch of people who got elected under dubious circumstances, (Dubya should be called dubious!!!) and since then have repeatedly broken every law they came across, constanly lied to and thumbed their noses at the American people and run roughshod over the constitution.

Now in his greatest display of Hubris (overbearing pride or presumption) V.P. Dick Cheney not only makes no apologies for his behaviour, but actually encourages the incoming Obama Administration to continue his foul deeds!

Q Have you got any advice for President-Elect Obama?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I guess the thing that I feel most strongly about is this question of how we've managed to keep the nation safe from further terrorist attacks for the last seven and a half years. [Obama] was rather critical during the campaign of some of the policies we pursued, for example, in terms of terrorist surveillance or interrogation of terrorist prisoners. Those were programs that have been absolutely essential to maintaining our capacity to interfere with and defeat all further attacks against the United States.

If I had advice to give it would be, before you start to implement your campaign rhetoric you need to sit down and find out precisely what it is we did and how we did it, because it is going to be vital to keeping the nation safe and secure in the years ahead. And it would be a tragedy if they threw over those policies simply because they had campaigned against them. I think they need to proceed very cautiously before they begin to change the policies that are in place. They need to know what they're doing.

Now this is REALLY funny because finding out precisely what it is they did and how they did it has been the ongoing quest of many people, including Obama and Congress, for a number of years.
(A quest that, critics charge, has been thwarted by Cheney and others for just as long.)

On top of this, Cheney lied with a straight face and didn't crack the smallest of smiles when he said:

"Well, the notion that somehow I was pulling strings or making presidential-level decisions. I was not," he said. "There was never any question about who was in charge. It was George Bush. And that's the way we operated. This whole notion that somehow I exceeded my authority here, was usurping his authority, is simply not true. It's an urban legend, never happened."

Meanwhile, stung by a pop quiz about foreign leaders earlier in his campaign, Georgie has now fallen victim to a foreign affairs prank.

Canadians are chuckling over his on-air answer when a comic posing as a reporter made up a story that Canadian Prime Minister "Jean Poutine" had endorsed him. "I appreciate his strong statement, he understands I believe in free trade," Bush replied.

"He understands I want to make sure our relations with our most important neighbor to the north of us, the Canadians, is strong and we'll work closely together," he continued.

(Canada's prime minister was Jean Chretien, not Poutine, and he has endorsed no one in U.S. politics. Poutine is a fast food meal of french fries, gravy and cheese curd popular in French-speaking Quebec.)

The stunt was pulled by comic Rick Mercer from "This Hour Has 22 Minutes," a satirical TV show in Canada.

Mercer, who sets up politicians on both sides of the border for laughs, buttonholed Bush at a campaign event in Michigan last month and fired several questions at him about a Prime Minister Poutine. The CBC program showed the exchange twice last week.

The real prime minister's office took the episode in stride, offering this response: "Clearly, Canada is not in the Bush leagues."

(From the notes of Kim Zetter)

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E ! and as a paperback H E R E !

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