Saturday, November 18, 2006

This ballot box only had room for 9 votes

US Vice President Dick Cheney, near the beginning of his speech to the elite conservative Federalist Society --

It's a privilege, today, to be in the company of my friend Ted Olson. Ted, of course, is a lawyer of high scholarship and persuasiveness. To this day I'm still impressed with his effective performance in a case called Bush v. Gore. (Laughter and applause.)

Dick Cheney, near the end of the same speech --

If an additional reason is needed for courts to show exceeding caution in national security affairs, it is this: They are unaccountable for the consequences of getting it wrong. The security of the country, and the strategies for its defense, are the province of the American people themselves. They exercise that control at the ballot box by voting us in or throwing us out.

[previous instance of right-wing ignorance about how recent presidential elections have been decided]

UPDATE: We should have mentioned Cheney's previous amnesia about 2000. And reacting to the above-linked speech and its reception, the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez tells the truth -

Federalist Society could double as the official Dick Cheney Fan Club. Where the heck else could you say such a thing? Okay, so maybe at the NRO convention.

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