It’s well in line with Orwellian doublethinking, though.
Congress should be held to the same standard.
I wonder whether you’ll ever use your first post in a politically embarrassing thread to do anything other than attempt to change the subject.
He can do both if he’s in his Undisclosed Location.
Look, I have disagreed with Cheney many times on these boards - you can look that up if you like. And I don’t think he has much of a leg to stand on here.
I did find that somewhat of an interesting double standard, though, and I mentioned it because I found it such. We used to regard a president’s papers as his until modern notions made that untenable - why should Congress continue to regard their papers in a similarly outdated fashion?
I have no problem with the idea of requiring Congresscritters to turn their papers over to the Archives – but that, as Cervaise pointed out in post #43, is decidely and pointlessly off-topic.
No posting that points out the hypocrisy and double-standards of the lefties is pointless, or off topic. That is the point, and it is the topic. Do try and pay attention, won’t you, BG?
Blow Job! I ween!
And, what posting would that be? (Are you actually equating “lefties” with Congress as a whole?)
Maybe that accounts for the U.S. Naval Observatory being all blurred on Google Earth – maybe it really looks like that because of the uncertainty of Cheney’s location.
Mr. Moto, at any rate, appears to be subtly hinting at exactly that.
Who retired on Friday. Will Bush/Cheney appoint a lapdog, or will the deputy hang in there for the duration?
How about because you’d have to archive 535 times as much stuff? And an individual congressperson isn’t as important as VP Dick. And this is just bullshit reflexive obfuscation on your part because your ideology is morally bankrupt.
So? Do you really think this is beyond our capacity to achieve? Here’s a newsflash - most of that material is already archived by various research collections and university libraries. This would just formalize a process already largely in place and ensure such archives are more complete than they would otherwise have been.
Or he simply has a true historians passion for detail and citation. Knowing that Sen Throckmorton had a luncheon with representatives of the Mother’s March Against Cognitive Dissonance at 11:15 am, April 19, 2007, for instance, might prove to be of vital significance. Someday. Hey, it could happen!
Now, we may think that the day to day activities of Cheney the Impaler are of more interest, but we can’t actually* know* that, now can we?
I propose we drop this whole silly subject of Dick Cheney’s secret crush diaries, and put our attention to the truly important question of Congressional archiving. I only hope we can all keep our tempers in check, given a question fraught with such significance.
Hopefully those brave historians of the future have a complete copy of the internet. So they can find out that the reason they have such a tremendous amount of banal data to sift through is because of our own Mr. Moron, the sopping wet minge-apologist for all republican wrongs.
Not quite fair, Lobo. He is simply pointing out the duplicitous double standards and hypocrisy of the left. Again.
The stench will be ovewhelming.
I think we are over-piling on poor Mr Moto. Yes it’s beside the point what Congress has to do, but at least it’s non-partisan. Pubs have been in control of Congress most of the last decade.
I see this as a delay/negotiating tactic on Cheney’s part. He’s got to know that the law is pretty darn clear on this subject, but what’s he got to lose by throwing a wrench in the works? His approval rating is about as low as it can get already.
As for Congress, well, the Republicans controlled Congress for much of Bush’s term, so if they wanted to hit themselves up with an archive law to match the presidential one, then they should’ve done it while they had a majority. But of course that’ll never happen, as I doubt either party wants to put that burden on itself. Touch luck for the P and VP that Congress saddled them with the archive law. Life ain’t fair, and when you throw in politics, that’s even more so.