TYPICAL BIG-TIME DICK (CHENEY)

NY Times, editorial (excerpt):

( Seig-Heil! )...Mr. Cheney’s office
ordered the Secret Service
last September to destroy all records of visitors to the official vice presidential mansion.

This disdain for accountability is distressing, but not surprising. Mr. Cheney has had it on display from his first days in office, when he refused to name the energy-industry executives who met with him behind closed doors to draft an energy policy.

In a similar way, Mr. Cheney seems unconcerned about little things like checks and balances and traditional American notions of judicial process. At one point, he gave himself the power to selectively declassify documents and selectively leak them to reporters. In a recent commencement address, he declaimed against prisoners who had the gall to “demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States.”

Mr. Cheney (thinks) no one, including congress and the courts, has the power to supervise or regulate the actions of the president. Just as he pays little attention to old-fangled notions of the separation of powers, Mr. Cheney does not overly bother himself about the bright line that should exist between his last job as chief of the energy giant Halliburton and his current one on the public payroll.

From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Cheney received “deferred salary payments” from Halliburton that far exceeded what taxpayers gave him. Mr. Cheney still holds hundreds of thousands of (Haliburton) stock options...

Reviewing this record-
-secrecy, impatience with government regulations, backroom dealings, handsome paydays — it dawned on us that Mr. Cheney
is in step with the times. He has privatized the job of Vice President of the United States.

OH, HE'S DONE A REAL BANG-UP JOB, TOO, EH? ...BACK IN THE DAY, WE'D TAR-AND-FEATHER THE TOWN FOOL.