ViceZilla’s Views

In a turn of events that is making George W. look like the Court Jester of his own Court, and Alberto Gonzales wishing he had some Cojones, Dick “I’m in charge” Cheney seems to have emerged as the real person in charge of the Administration.

It all started with the office of the Vice President refusing to file annual reports with the federal National Archives and Records Administration, even though Bush issued an executive order in 2003 requiring all government agencies that are part of the executive branch to submit to oversight. Cheney has claimed his office is not part of the “Executive” Branch. Three days after this story started making waves, President Bush’s Office has come out in Dick’s defense and claims that Cheney’s office is exempt from the requirements because the President intended him to be. Not only that, but the “>Office of the President is also exempt!

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said in an interview Friday, “We don’t dispute that the ISOO (The Information Security Oversight Office) has a different opinion. But let’s be very clear: This executive order was issued by the president, and he knows what his intentions were,” Fratto said. “He is in compliance with his executive order.”

WTF? It seems the only people who know what Bush’s intentions are or were, is Bush and Cheney! What better way of avoiding accountability than by saying, “Oh, I didn’t mean it that way.” Let’s see if I get this right. The “Executive” signs an executive order requiring all government agencies that are part of the executive branch to submit to oversight, but yet the “Executive” now claims that he never intended the law to apply to the top two “Executive” Offices of the government! So if that’s the case, then I guess the voting public never intended to vote into power an unaccountable and corrupt government?

Oops, I forgot, the unaccountable and corrupt government never really was voted into power by the voting public in the first place! So while all of this feces flinging is going on, where is the Attorney General in all of this mess? Surely the AG would rule on this matter as it is a matter of law, right?

J. William Leonard, the chief of the Archives’ Information Security Oversight Office, which enforces the order, complained in January to Gonzales about Cheney’s refusal to comply with the executive order. In a “>letter, Leonard wrote that Cheney’s position was inconsistent with the “plain text reading” of the executive order and asked the attorney general for an official ruling. But Gonzales never responded.

The reason Gonzalez never responded was because he is off to see the wizard in hopes that he might get his life long wish of attaining a spine so that one day he will be able to walk upright, and faithfully execute the duties of the office of the Attorney General of the United States of America! So I ask the Question, who is the real President of the United States? George? No. Dick? No. It’s really Chuck Barris from the Gong Show! Yes, that’s right.

The Gong Show’s claim to fame was showcasing really, really useless talent, just like the Bush Administration is.

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