Cheney Aide Is Screening Legislation.

Source: The Raw Story

At least we can now rest knowing that Dick Cheney is the brains of the White House and is the guy running the country from the White House. After all, you have a Cheney aide reviewing legislation before it reaches the president's desk and either approving it or shooting it down for revisions (or use of "signing statements").

I always wondered where they hide GW's puppet strings.

WASHINGTON -- The office of Vice President Dick Cheney routinely reviews pieces of legislation before they reach the president's desk, searching for provisions that Cheney believes would infringe on presidential power, according to former White House and Justice Department officials.

The officials said Cheney's legal adviser and chief of staff, David Addington , is the Bush administration's leading architect of the "signing statements" the president has appended to more than 750 laws. The statements assert the president's right to ignore the laws because they conflict with his interpretation of the Constitution.

The Bush-Cheney administration has used such statements to claim for itself the option of bypassing a ban on torture, oversight provisions in the USA Patriot Act, and numerous requirements that they provide certain information to Congress, among other laws.

And they try to tell the U.S. that Bush doesn't live in a bubble.

This story alone shows how everything he sees is censored, and he doesn't see the truth on anything. It's not really shocking that the president thinks everything is going well, given the fact his advisers feed him "misinformation" constantly.

I think Dick ought to change his title to "President Cheney" as we all know he is he the real power behind the White House.

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