Mondale Issues Blistering Attack On Cheney: 'Brutal-Deliberate Policy To Ignore Laws & Constitution'

[kpete]

Mondale issues blistering attack on Cheney

Former Vice President Walter Mondale's presentation at the Humphrey Institute on the vice presidency


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Former Vice President Walter Mondale today accused the current vice president, Dick Cheney, of a wholesale assault on the Constitution, the balance of powers, and the system that evolved since World War II to coordinate intelligence and defense policy.

"They wrecked that system," Mondale said this morning at a University of Minnesota scholarly conference on the vice presidency.

This isn't some academic difference of opinion over the proper balance between branches of the federal government, Mondale said, during a question and answer session after his prepared remarks:

"I think this was a brutal, deliberate policy to ignore a wide range of written laws and constitutional principles and the legitimate powers of Congress…It's different than anything we've seen in American history and I think it ought to be seen not as two responsible positions, but ought to be seen as a dramatic challenge to American's system of government."

more at:
http://www.minnpost.com/ericblack/2008/03/24/1254/mondale_issues_blistering_attack_on_cheney

[Benhurst]

1. This makes me wish he were running again.

Why aren't Obama and Clinton speaking out so forcefully?

Recommended :kick: #1

[dmosh42]

2. Agreed! And why not Congress too!

They have cooperated in this whole fiasco, whether it be Dem or Repuke. Nobody has been tried, nor have they made any attempts.

[bdamomma]

4. apparently the Congress thinks an election will correct all

problems, they are so detached from reality.

[Stevepol]

6. He won the last time he ran.

The vote was counted largely on ES&S scanners if I recall rightly and the flip from the pre-election polls to the alleged results in that election was somewhere around 6-8%. The final margin was just above the percentage that would have required a recount.

That was in 02. That was also the year Cleland lost in GA due to Diebold and the election in CO was also suspect.

As long as our vote is counted in total secrecy without verification, you can expect more of the same.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Contrast Mondale with Ben and Bill Nelson, Mary Landrieau, Schumer, Feinstein and more.

From the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin -

George McGovern, Wellstone, Feingold.

We can add Mondale with that speech of heroic truth.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Well, yeah. And since when is that been a problem?

They dismantled the justice system, they stacked the courts, and they PW'd the Congress. Game over.

[IDemo]

7. Hopefully when we have a professor of constitutional law in the oval office, things will change

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/30/politics/p132303D74.DTL&type=politics