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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Et Tu, Broder? (3:15 am)

Even Broder piles on:

when presidential candidate George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney as his running mate, I applauded the choice… Boy, was I wrong.
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Cheney, as described in a breathtakingly detailed series in The Post this week by reporters Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, is something else.

What they discovered, in a year of work that reveals more about the inner workings of this White House than any previous reporting, is a vice president who used the broad authority given him by a complaisant chief executive to bend the decision-making process to his own ends and purposes, often overriding Cabinet officers and other executive branch officials along the way.
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It was not illegal, and it was not unconstitutional, but it could not have happened unless the president permitted it and enabled it. And ultimately the president is responsible for what has become, in very large respect, the resulting wreckage of foreign policy, national security policy, budget policy, energy policy and environmental policy under Cheney’s direction and on Cheney’s watch.

posted by Brian Zick

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