Quote of the Day

WALLACE: This is at the core of the controversies that I want to get to with you in a moment. If the president during war decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?

CHENEY: General proposition, I'd say yes. You need to be more specific than that. I mean — but clearly, when you take the oath of office on January 20th of 2001, as we did, you take the oath to support and defend and protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

I think the man genuinely doesn't understand what he's saying.  Defend and protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.  I don't think I'm the only one who believes that suspending and ignoring large swaths of the Constitution in the interest of stopping terrorism counts as protecting the constitution.  I'm not being too dramatic when I say that millions of Americans have died to defend that piece of paper and what it stands for.  To ignore it now, plays right into the hands of the terrorists.  As Bush likes to say, "They hate our freedom!" (which is categorical bullshit, btw.  They hate the way we meddle.  But I digress).  

By taking away the freedoms and protections provided by the Constitution, we have done exactly what those guys who flew the planes into the buildings couldn't do.  And now it's clear, if it wasn't already, that Cheney thinks that the document this country was founded on is expendable.  I don't.  Let's hope no future president ever does again.