I really should stop being surprised by this stuff.

It's the sheer audacity, I guess.

Hit & Run > Random Monday Morning Links - Reason Magazine:

"# Vice President Cheney says that if the president does it during wartime, 'as a general proposition,' it's legal. And of course, we're currently in a 'war on terror' defined broadly enough to ensure it'll go on in perpetuity.

# A cool $1.6 billion of federal bailout money thus far has gone to pay the salaries, bonuses, and perks for the executives who put the banks in the position of begging for a bailout in the first place.

# Schadenfreude: The Oregon prosecutor who made national headlines last year by charging two seventh-grade boys with felony sex abuse for swatting the behinds of their female classmates now faces assault charges of her own. She allegedly punched her husband in the face.

# In Afghanistan: 'As U.S. coalition tries to stamp out opium, farmers turning to pot.'"

Cheney clearly worships at the altar of Richard "when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal" Nixon.