Cheney Staff Tried To Censor Climate Change Testimony
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Jul 09, 2008 8:45am
I don't think it's hyperbole to say that Dick Cheney is trying to destroy the world.
Seeking to play down the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed to delete from congressional testimony references about the consequences of climate change on public health, a former senior EPA official claimed Tuesday.
The official, Jason K. Burnett, said the White House was concerned that the proposed testimony last October by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might make it tougher to avoid regulating greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
In other words, protecting his buddies' oil interests is more important to him than protecting the public's health. Thanks, Dick!
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Dick
He really is the closest thing to a living Super-Villian the world has ever seen...
So I guess this doesn't count as an impeachable offense either?
Oh, well. Nevermind. I've come to the conclusion that when there is a Republican in the White House, nothing can possibly constitute an impeachable offense.
Isn't this old news?
And oh yeah...FOIST!
Whoa....a wee bit slow on the draw this mornin apparently...
So?
The dems will grant him amnesty.
Stop donating to FISA ads and Support taking legal action
In advance of the president’s signature, the ACLU announced its plan to challenge the new law in court.
“This fight is not over. We intend to challenge this bill as soon as President Bush signs it into law,” said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. “The bill allows the warrantless and dragnet surveillance of Americans’ international telephone and email communications. It plainly violates the Fourth Amendment.”
Taking FISA to court
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/35928prs20080709.html
john @ 7:
I signed an ACLU petition for that this very morning!
Lex Luthor? Dr. Evil? Devil in a blue parka?
Of course they did it. If they didn't do things like this we would be confused. The people who lead us hate us.
And the wingnuts all cheered 'We're Number One! We're Number One!'
He'd sell his own country for one meeeellion dollars.
john @ 7:
It all depends on how batshit crazy Kennedy is. The other four fascist SCOTUS judges will say that it doesn't. Un-f'ing believable!
Prairie Sunshine @ 9:
Spawn of SATAN!
oops, that link wouldn't just paste ...
mudshark @ 12:
Oh, he's definitely raked in ALOT more than one meeeeellion!
But but where's mini me?
Oh that's right, he's telling Congress to shove that subpoena up their nose( to early for graphics)
justabill @ 15:
I really do hate that man...with all my heart...I truly do...I hope justice is done upon him in my lifetime.
justabill @ 15:
Is this from the Onion ?
Where's 007 when we need him?
What are we doing today Brain. What we always do Pinky, try and take over the world!
liberalNmoderation @ 16:
Oh, excuse me( McCain mumbling to Lieberman and Graham).
One Beeeeeellion Dollars
Cheney has been a consistent and powerful advocate for the Energy segment of our economy.
How will Obama do for them?
Cheney: So?
earl @ 19:
Almost seems that way, but no. It's for real.
Leadership @ 23:
Yes, at the sake of our economy and our country.
This chronic criminal can do whatever he wants....all the while telling us to go fuck ourselves. Dick walks though the raindrops lying, stealing, shitting on the constitution and wiping his fat ass with Pelosi's dress and Reid's tie. Cheney hasn't done one humanitarian thing in his murderous life....although he did shoot a lawyer in the face.
liberalNmoderation @ 8:
Me too.
justabill @ 25:
Yeah, I was afraid of that ...
It is the prerogative of the Fourth Branch of Government to decide what are, and what are not, facts.
OT:
"U.S. vows to defend against Iran missile threat"
Yeee-hawww!!! Saddle up boys!
We gonna kill us some a them Eye-Rainians ...
bill doh @ 28:
Excellent! Thanks from a fellow American for standing for your/our rights!
I am looking forward to the democrats enacting change and taking the lead, to uncover the crimes that George and Dick have already and are continuing to commit.
Here's to your impeachment Dick - crook and liar !
Um can someone even explain what "climate change" is? The Bush administration has done nothing but cover things up it is a real shame we as the people are allowing our government to function this way. But as far a Cheney covering anything up no suprise.
As Gomer Pyle would have said " Surprise, Surprise."
Ok I see the connection. Paleo-Dick just wants to warm the world to the way it used to be 5 million years ago when he was spawned and ruled supreme. Oh so evil... for so long. Where is Hellboy when you need him.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/07/07/arctic-fossils.html
k @ 34:
Now that's funny! Wishful thinkin' man.
I think that may qualify as understatement.
it has been very well documented that the preponderance of anti-scientific thugs (such as the climate change-deniers, the politicians and the think tanks) are funded by those that profit (big oil, big coal) from a general ignorance of the god-awful environmental future we have created for ourselves.
so, i ask:
was dick cheney paid for doing the bidding of big coal and oil?
What a DICK. The only thing worse than these two imbeciles in office is the fact that NOBODY is making progress in kicking their sorry asses out of office in spite of everything that has happened this past 7+ years
forty pieces of silver doesn't go as far as it did back when Dick Cheney was just a little monster!
if this man ends up being able to retire from his career of evil and live out his life in peace then there is no justice, period.
I hope his children, his children's children, and his children's children's children all suffer horribly in the future he has set us on course towards.
Please change the title of this post. They DID censor the climate change testimony. There is no "try" here.
Dick Cheney is a very good reason for not believing in a God or believing He has forsaken us.
Pat Riot @ 42:
I'm hoping this prick has a long, protracted, very, very painful and slow death... suffering he's bequeathed on the world returned to him in this lifetime... and the same treatment for every single syncophant and bootlicking a$$hole in public office and lobbyist ranks for the past several decades. Even this would be too lenient on these traitorous, heartless, soulless fucktards!
OT: Rove has failed to show and refused to give testimony under the subpeona
issued by House Committee. So now what? Same, I suspect, as w/Bolten and Meirs;
"NOTHING". Where is the backbone, and more importantly, the backbone of "our"
wonderful Congressional representatives?
Question:
Cheney, who the f*%$ do you think you work for?
doggiebobo @ 46:
Don't forget the fact that we have ANOTHER outlaw "Attorney General"!
Cheney satisfies all the checklist items required to be clinically labeled a psycopath. Among those items, he is amoral and possesses no conscience. The capacity to be influenced by morality or conscience is completely absent from his personality. His capacity for moral outrage is limited exclusively to those wrongs which are committed against his own person and his own property. He can do limitless harm to others and not miss a wink of sleep, because no others - even those who think themselves dear to him - have zero objective reality to him. All others are just extensions of his own being, are mere objects in his environment, to be manipulated, used and discarded as suits his desires. The only reality in his universe is himself, and no others have consequence.
He could kill the world and the act would be no different to him than tying his shoe.
I agree with the comment that was made before Congress a few days back: the oil company executives are guilty of high crimes against humanity and nature., and should be held accountable as such.
domestic terrorist and war criminal
somebody should make dick drink a steaming hot cup of mercury laced with arsenic.
If there is a Hell, you know seats will be scarce at his indoctrination!
here's to the 59 million freedom-hating morons who helped re-elect this walking abomination. They too as well should be held accountable in their complicity with his crimes. The biggest mistake America could make would be to ignore these 59 million abettors.
It's time to make those red states pay heavily for their crimes against America and the world.
Balance of power? What a joke. As long as any president can add a "signing statement", Congress is irrelevant. Dick leaves the country in mid-December, never to be seen on our shores again. Michael Jackson will be his best friend.
"Seeking to play down the effects of global warming..."
Discussing the issue at all just doesn't benefit Dick politically. And that's all that matters. So it gets snuffed. Typical Republicon job.
This ATROCITY we call the bush administration has proven to all of us that this so-called GREAT NATION of ours was nothing but a myth all along. They have truly put to the test, for all to see, just how weak WE THE PEOPLE are when it comes to ousting a failed (or in this case, DANGEROUS) leadership.... we are totally powerless.
exposethetruth @ 47:
Obviously no one who holds him accountable for his actions...
SO!
Just add this to the ever growing list of crimes that our Dumbocratic leadership won't do S**T about!
When we get some real reps in office the criminal enablers on both sides should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law including treason!
Censorship is the most powerful urge in human society, sex a distant second-Somebody wise who I can't remember off the top of my head.
General_Rennenkampf @ 57:
Attributed to Phil Kerby of the LA Times
hey, don't be dissin Dr. Evil by imposing Dr. Death's head on his body!
We should feed Dick Cheney to the last surviving polar bear.
The Exotic, yet bitter Chico Hussein Escuela @ 60:
Why poison the last surviving polar bear?
getalife @ 6:
When they finally drill ANWR...will Cheney have the honor of driving the first shovel through the nearest baby seal?
anybody want to join me in an investment group to buy real estate next door to Cheney in Wyoming and Bush in Crawford.....and turn it into a toxic waste dump?
VeeKaChu @ 2:
How in the hell did we get in this situation??? Is democracy gone? Magna Carta... gone? Due process of law... gone? Habeas Corpus... gone?
WHat exactly IS left of the Constitution???
I guess anarchy is justified now since their philosophy of "the ends justify the means" makes Hitler's decisions A - Ok??
Maybe it's time to get some kick-ass mutants to take these fukers out! Hang them by their heels from the empire state building, naked, and spank their ass with a paddle until they tell all from shame and embarrassment of crying "mommmmie!!"
it's time to make satay of Dick.
RW Says: This ATROCITY we call the bush administration has proven to all of us that this so-called GREAT NATION of ours was nothing but a myth all along.
Well said, to the point. True patriots have been replaced by..... cowards often in groups trying to scare each other, no sense of awareness of others, give me my lifted 4X4 and all the gas I need.
I'm sad today.
I agree with the opening statement.
*
SO?
E. Skyhawk @ 64:
David Vitter would sign up for that and probably even bring his own diaper
If we all imagined this asshole dying of a spontaneous heart attack every time we orgasmed, the evil fucker would keel over
Has there ever been a more evil motherfucker to reside in the White House in this nation's history?
If there is a Hell, there is a special room reserved for that bastard
So this is the type of democracy we are exporting to the Middle East, where our elected officials attempt to censor scientific reports related to possible health risks?
The Exotic, yet bitter Chico Hussein Escuela @ 60:
Let's just do it now and tell him it's the last polar bear.
chuck @ 3:
Interfering with sworn testimony to Congress is a felony. But hey, who really cares right?
Relax. Aren't you more concerned with who will win So You Think You Can Dance?
Hey, when global warming the oceans rise and swamp whole cities and inland areas, we'll have some new big lakes where the once were.
I vote to name the largest, Lake Cheney.
Hey, when global warming causes the oceans to rise and swamp whole cities and inland areas, we’ll have some new big lakes where the once were.
I vote to name the largest, Lake Cheney.
Rah Rah Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh, $100 trillion!
Protecting his BUDDIES? I think we as Americans forget that although our Government leaders must put their stocks in a blind trust, they still own stock in many companies. People seem to forget the ties that Dick has to Big Oil, Halliburton, and Schlumberger oilfield services. He isn't protecting his Buddies' interests, he's guaranteeing his OWN!
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_options_rose_3281_last_1...
http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/2933/2/
The only reason Bush hasn't been impeached is because Cheney would then be president...not that he isn't pulling the strings already. But by not being president, he can hide behind more people to works his dealings
"I tell ya what...we'll give you democracy if you give us your oil. Act now and we'll throw in Jesus Crist"
-W
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