STEPHANOPOULOS: You’ve talked a lot about the consequences of the Democrats taking over congress in the last week. Nancy Pelosi said this: “we win, speaking of the democrat, we get subpoena power.†If you’re subpoenaed by the Democrats, would you go?
CHENEY: I have no idea that i’m going to be subpoenaed. Obviously, we’d sit down and look at it at the time. But probably not in the sense at that Vice President and President and constitutional officers don’t appear before the Congress.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That’s your view of executive power? You’re not going to go up and testify.
CHENEY: I think that’s been the tradition. I can’t remember the last time a President did appear before the Congress. Or a Vice President.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Gerald Ford, I think.
CHENEY: That’s right. But not on a subpoena, he did it on his own.
You really need to watch this to get the full impact. Cheney’s saying he won’t testify and can’t remember the last time that a President did appear before Congress. And then Stephanopoulos injoins, “Gerald Ford, I think†and Cheney immediately retorts with “That’s right.†Of course Cheney knows that because he was Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff.
Let’s also recall what Cheney said in 1991 when he was Bush’s Secretary of Defense. What a guy.
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Update: Oh no.
