New Book Details Cheney's Crimes

Last night's Daily Show was a real eye opener. Jon Stewart's guest was Barton Gellman, author of the book, Angler,The Cheney Vice Presidency. Though The Daily Show is essentially comedy, it often has the best interviews of authors and news makers on television and last night was no exception.

Gellman told of a Vice Presidency that has essentially become "Deputy President". Cheney has expanded the powers of the Vice President well beyond the Constitutional duties of presiding over the Senate. Gellman also told of the egregious lies Cheney fed to his party's leaders to get the US into the Iraq war. Specifically the story of Cheney lying to Dick Armey and telling him Saddam would have "suitcase nukes" ready to deploy to terrorists. He told of Armey, who was against the war weeping on the floor of the Senate during the vote.

I only wish this book had come out a couple of years ago when we could have still ousted this criminal administration from power. Now we can only hope to catch up to them after the fact, that is if Bush doesn't give himself and Cheney preemptive pardons.