Waxman slams Cheney with commonly used right wing phrase

[ck4829]

"If the vice president did nothing wrong, what is there to hide?"
- Henry Waxman on Cheney being protected by Executive Privilege over the Plame scandal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080716/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak

[sakabatou]

1. Waxman is brilliant!

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I hope that some day Waxman gets the honor he deserves..along with the others who have stood up

against BushCO despite it making them such a media lightning rod.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Already know what the response will be:

"We're trying to prevent a partisan witch-hunt."

[Cosmocat]

6. Bingo ... Talkiing point subsection B ...

Under responsive talking points ...

[tanyev]

7. Oh. I thought you were going to say

"Go fuck yourself"

[Virginia Dare]

10. Either that, or invite him to go hunting...n/t

[SteveM]

14. "So?" (nt)

[groovedaddy]

4. I thought Cheney wasn't part of the Executive Branch

While I don't believe that, how does he get to have it both ways?

[ck4829]

5. From the Republican Dictionary

Vice President - An enigma. Has all of the privileges, but none of the responsibilities, of the Executive Branch.

[navarth]

8. Whoopee....more words.

Pardon me if I don't get excited until they do something more than come up with witty rejoinders.

I like Waxman too. And Conyers, and all of the good ones. But ain't shit been done about these outrages. Am I wrong? Please, somebody correct me.

[central scrutinizer]

9. OK as sarcasm, but bad otherwise

That is exactly the argument about warrantless wiretaps and all of the other invasions of privacy by Bushco - "If you are not a terrorist, you have nothing to worry about from the PATRIOT Act." It makes my skin crawl to hear that

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Yes, and it's a taste of his own medicine.

It's not a law, Waxman isn't trying to use it as a law; he's merely showing everyone who heard him that Cheney is a hypocrite.

[indepat]

11. It was a criminal operation from the start, imo, if divvying up Iraq's oil reserves were

in any way a topic of discussion during the administration's early energy meetings. :D

[harun]

13. Waxman's impressive (n/t)

[BrotherBuzz]

15. Henry, throw Bush's words back at them

We expect there to be transparency. People who have something to hide make us nervous. - Bush, Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 16, 2002