Will the real emperor please stand up

It's not the Shrub. As we suspected all along, the man behind the curtain is (drum roll) Dick Cheney.

He was evidentally telling the truth when he said he had authority for his abuses of power.

Check the article, not from one of "our" publications, from The National Review today. Executive Order 13292 (I imagine we'll be hearing much more about it) was quietly amended to extend the powers of the Presidency to the Vice President.

If Bush can do that with an Executive Order, I guess he and Cheney can do just about anything they want. I can hardly wait to see what comes next.

Speaking of Cheney, apologies were given today - by the victim to the perp. The victim is (paraphrasing here) sorry he caused trouble for Cheney or words to that effect. When I first saw that on another blog, I thought it was a joke. Nope. It's all over the news.

We'll probably never know the whole story and I'm not about to speculate here, but for a 78 year old man to apologize to the shooter? For what?