Posted on 07/29/2007 11:39:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Former US veep Mondale accuses Cheney of power grab Jul 29 02:01 PM US/Eastern Vice President Dick Cheney has presided over an unprecedented power grab during his six years in the White House, former Vice President Walter Mondale wrote in a rare, scathing critique Sunday.
Mondale, the former number two to Democratic President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, in an opinion piece appearing Sunday in the Washington Post newspaper, fingered Cheney as the chief transgressor in a White House guilty of "great excess" and "exceeding its authority."
He wrote that since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, "Cheney set out to create a largely independent power center in the office of the vice president."
"His was an unprecedented attempt not only to shape administration policy but, alarmingly, to limit the policy options sent to the president," he wrote, calling the George W. Bush administration "seriously off track" in the unprecedented amount of power it has ceded to Cheney.
"Through his vast government experience, through the friends he had been able to place in key positions and through his considerable political skills, he (Cheney) has been increasingly able to determine the answers to questions put to the president -- because he has been able to determine the questions," Mondale continued.
In particular, many of the policy positions Cheney has pushed through on handling terror suspects and the domestic use of intelligence "have proved offensive to the values of the constitution and have been embarrassingly overturned by the courts."
Mondale also slammed "Cheney's zealous embrace of secrecy" and his "near total aversion to the notion of accountability" to the public and Congress.
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Mundale does have the title of the Most Lame VP ever. World Leaders would request he not attend their Funerals.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I know that Reagan said this about Jimmy but he nailed this bunch of losers.
Mondale? Oh you mean Walter “Landslide” Mondale.
Thanks for the map showing Minnesota in bright red! Of course Mondale was a native-son and all. However, how many here know that he only won the state by about 2 percentage points?
I think Mondale was a victim of a power grab—in some men’s room.
perhaps it would be MONDALE
Walter who?
No, more needs to be said like he lost Minnesota in 2002 making hima loser in all 50 states!
LOL! Yes, Mr. Mondale, your brand of ‘leadership’ was repudiated overwhelmingly by the American public, in that historic landslide that (we thought) closed the book on the weasels of the Carter-Mondale era. The fact that we have to see the spectacle of you and your peanut-brained former president grossly violating the long-established tradition of quiet bi-partisanship in former VPs and Ps shows once again that you and Jimmy are not worth a bucket of warm spit. Oh, wasn’t that what someone once said about the VP job? Maybe they just had you in mind, Mondale......
They were BOTH number twos, in the excremental sense.
They were BOTH number twos, in the excrement sense.
Now the spelling is corrected.
Post #6 ROFL
Which one talks too much?
A. Walter Mondale
B. Walter Cronkite
C. Walter Lippman
D. Barbara Walters
E. All the above
yo walter, was it your daughter tooting on clintons horn?????????
This is wonderful. When Algore was given (often dubious) responsibilities he was lauded as the most accomplished veep in history. Cheney makes Gore look like a young child given important looking chores in order to build a self-esteem and a sense of responsibility.
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