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Vice-President Dick Cheney appeared
twice on Sunday talk shows to divert the Enron scandal away from
the administration. He
states he is standing behind the constitution to not share
important information with Congress.
The problem is he is not standing behind our
Constitution and helping to protect the thousands of people who
lost their life savings and their jobs just so he can protect a
corrupt company and government.
He claims that the presidency is
“weaker today because of the unwise compromises that have been
made over the last 30 to 35 years,” but has failed to point out
exactly what those compromises were.
The Executive Branch has always had
one-third of the power in our government, and some argue it is
even more than that due to veto power.
In a time when he should be more worried about our
nation’s security, he is grandstanding in order to preserve
presidential power.
Surely he has more to do than to drag
this dispute between Congress and the White House into court. It only shows how obvious it is that he must be hiding
something. This is not the time to be making a point to Congress
that the president needs more power to do his job. In any case,
does anyone really believe that he is doing this for the integrity
of the Executive Branch?
Even
though Cheney’s name is now appearing in the same sentence as
“Watergate” in the mainstream media, he is still sticking to
his guns. What many
don’t realize is that he has no choice.
No one in the administration is coming out and saying
he is wrong for his vehemence because they understand that he is
taking the necessary steps to hide the facts.
He cannot let the General Accounting Office (the
investigative arm of Congress) know who met with the energy task
force and what was discussed.
This information would be too telling and hurtful to his
boys.
Instead he would like to start the biggest battle
between Congress and the White House since Watergate, as a
necessary diversion. He
will make himself out to be an American hero, voicing concern that
the President must be able to make moves independently for the
security of the nation. He
will shift the focus of this scandal towards a constitutional
fight to preserve the rights and power of the President, while all
the time keeping the truth from the American people --
that campaign contributions disproportionately influenced
the White House energy proposals.
What
happened to the administration that promised to be the Great
Unifier? Bush’s war cabinet is dividing the world with its
isolationist foreign policy and the nation with its cover-ups and
lies. Dick Cheney and the Bush Administration need to stop
treating the greatest democracy in the world as an oil company.
Hindsight shows the wisdom of Barbara Lee, having the
vision to understand what Bush would become when he was given too
much power.
And now the rest of America is starting to
understand, too. A
CBS-New York Times poll shows that almost three-quarters of
Americans think the administration is lying or hiding something
about its relationship with Enron.
With the trials against Enron employees who obstructed
justice starting soon, more and more truths will be discovered
from these white-collar, silver spooners who can’t face the idea
of prison. Then
the truth about Cheney’s motivation to withhold records will
surface -- and the fun will begin.
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