{"id":1191,"date":"2007-06-22T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T04:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2007-06-22T00:04:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T04:04:18","slug":"on-a-keith-olbermann-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"On a Keith Olbermann Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Said MSNBC&#8217;s Keith Olbermann:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vice President Dick Cheney is a rogue nation.  <\/p>\n<p>Despite the recent capture of his top lieutenant, Mr. Cheney continues to defy the rule of law, attempting to destroy ISOO &#8212; an office of the U.S. government, after all &#8212; and barring inspections in true Saddam style.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving only one possible remedy:  Invade him, in order to establish a Free and Democratic Dick Cheney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure some Capitol beat cops could take Dick Cheney. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The joke&#8211;if you want to call it that&#8211;here is that Vice President Cheney has asserted he&#8217;s a <i>fourth<\/i> branch of government.  As the President of the Senate he&#8217;s part of the legislative branch.  As Commander Guy&#8217;s number two he&#8217;s part of the executive branch.  Cheney asserts that, as he&#8217;s not fully part of either and has responsibilities in <i>both<\/i>, that he&#8217;s subject to oversight from neither the executive nor legislative branches and, thus, can do whatever he wants with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>As Olbermann said, Cheney&#8217;s a rogue nation.  Cheney <i>is<\/i> the Axis of Evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Said MSNBC&#8217;s Keith Olbermann: Vice President Dick Cheney is a rogue nation. Despite the recent capture of his top lieutenant, Mr. Cheney continues to defy the rule of law, attempting to destroy ISOO &#8212; an office of the U.S. government, after all &#8212; and barring inspections in true Saddam style. Leaving only one possible remedy:<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1191\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Keith Olbermann Quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dick-cheney","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}