When you read the some of the wagging that is going on between Bidden and Cheney you can only smile.  Image it”’’s in the afternoon, Biden has just screwed up another television interview (like yesterday when he didn””””t know the website address) the phone rings and it”’’s Cheney, “Hey Joe lets go bird hunting”.

While funny, it does bring up a interesting argument and points to one of the problems with the Bush administration calling themselves Republican.  Their stance doesnt really support state rights.  On the other hand, I don””””””””t believe the current adminstration recognizes that there are states.  Interesting!  Enjoy the article.

From Fox News

Vice President Cheney mocked Vice President-elect Joe Biden”””””””’’s grasp of the Constitution, defended former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and said President Bush “doesn””””””””t have to check with anybody” before launching a nuclear attack.

In a blunt, unapologetic interview on “FOX News Sunday,” Cheney fired back at Biden for declaring in October that “Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we””””””””ve had probably in American history.”

“He also said that all the powers and responsibilities of the executive branch are laid out in Article I of the Constitution,” Cheney said in a interview that was conducted on Friday. “Well, they””””””””re not. Article I of the Constitution is the one on the legislative branch.”

“Joe”””””””’’s been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware, and can””””””””t keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which provides for the executive. So I think I””””””””d write that off as campaign rhetoric. I don””””””””t take it seriously.”

“His notion of a unitary executive, meaning that, in time of war, essentially all power, you know, goes to the executive, I think is dead wrong. I think it was mistaken. I think it caused this administration, in adopting that notion, to overstep its constitutional bounds, but, at a minimum, to weaken our standing in the world and weaken our security. I stand by that — that judgment,” Biden said..

Cheney defended the administration”””””””’’s aggressive prosecution of the War on Terror, which he said was a major reason the nation hasn””””””””t been attacked in seven years. He said the 1973 War Powers Act is a violation of the Constitution because Congress does not have the right by statute to alter presidential constitutional power.

“That it is an infringement on the president”””””””’’s authority as the commander-in-chief,” Cheney said. “It has never been resolved, but I think it”””””””’’s a very good example of a way in which Congress has tried to limit the president”””””””’’s authority and, frankly, can””””””””t.

“The president of the United States now for 50 years is followed at all times, 24 hours a day, by a military aide carrying a football that contains the nuclear codes that he would use and be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States,” Cheney said. “He could launch the kind of devastating attack the world has never seen.

“He doesn””””””””t have to check with anybody. He doesn””””””””t have to call the Congress. He doesn””””””””t have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.”

Cheney also made clear that he had tried, in vain, to convince Bush not to fire Rumsfeld in 2006.

“I did disagree with the decision,” Cheney said. “The president doesn””””””””t always take my advice.”

Cheney said he supports Rumsfeld”””””””’’s successor, Robert Gates, “but I was a Rumsfeld man. I””””””””d helped recruit him and I thought he did a good job for us.”

Cheney also was unapologetic about using an expletive in 2004 to tell Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy what to do to himself. The incident occurred after Cheney heard that Leahy had suggested the vice president used his position in the White House to get contracts for his former firm, Halliburton.

“I thought he merited it at the time, and we””””””””ve since, I think, patched over that wound and we””””””””re civil to one another now,” Cheney said in the interview.

OK, so Suleman is unmarried?  So what if Suleman is unemployed? Does it really matter that one or sometimes both of her parents thinks Suleman is unstable? 

DUH! of course it does!

I truly believe in freedom of choice…..I also believe in personal responsibility.  That goes for the Doctor who has violated the law of common sense.  Instead of us paying for this atrocity I say let the doctor and the father.  They both are responsible for impregnating her.

OK this is my last rant on the subject.   Read the last 2 weeks of weirdness below from E!

2/23/09
All this Octomom versus Octograndpa, Octograndma and Octodad stuff is giving us octofatigue, but Nadya Suleman is not going away anytime soon. (She’s even being followed by the paparazzi now. “You mean the paparazzi are here to watch me play in the park? So happy!”)

Fresh on the heels of Suleman’s possible sperm donor/ex-boyfriend telling Good Morning America, “It just seems like a lot of her statements that she’s made have been really inaccurate” and just before her father goes on Oprah to question his daughter’s mental stability later today, Nadya and her mother, Angela Suleman, are fighting face-to-face.

In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, Nadya lectures her mother, who’s gone from expressing disapproval over her daughter’s decision to reconciling and now back to openly disagreeing with her.

Nadya chides Angela over and over that she needs to, “Learn to let go of what I chose to do.”

But Angela can’t let go because Nadya “should have considered the other six children.” She goes on to say she feels sorry for her 14 grandchildren, “because there’s so many and how are you going to be able to provide for them?”

Uh, easy. Nadya explains she’s going to let go and accept the help that has been offered. This marks the end of round one, Nadya shoots the camera a sheepish grin and Radar promises to bring us more clips like this throughout the week.

2/19/09
The father of octuplet spawner Nadya Suleman questioned his own daughter’s sanity and agreed that she needs major help—financially, at least—during a recent sit-down with Oprah Winfrey.

“That’s a very good question,” responded Ed Doud, Suleman’s dad and a grandfather of 14, when the queen of daytime asked whether his daughter is mentally stable.

“Now I’m no psychiatrist, but I question her mental situation,” he said, adding that both his daughter and her fertility doctor were “absolutely irresponsible” to allow her to become that pregnant.

Suleman, 33, who already had six children (three of whom have special needs), gave birth to octuplets Jan. 26 in Bellflower, Calif., after undergoing in vitro fertilization.

Doud told Winfrey he hopes to stay healthy and for his daughter to finish school and start working. “And we all could support this family,” he said.

When questioned about the website Suleman set up to solicit donations from the public, Doud agreed that she needs monetary assistance.

“I say to everybody now: People, we do need help. Do not punish my daughter for what she had done and and do not punish the babies, because they were given by God.”

Suleman, who has expressed a boatload of confidence in her ability to raise her children despite her current lack of employment and a home that’s in preforeclosure, is reportedly receiving $490 a month in food stamps, while three of her older children receive federal supplement security income.

In the interview scheduled to air Feb. 24 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Doud also discusses what it was like to learn Suleman was expecting at least seven babies and how his family is handling the financial strain and intense public scrutiny that has become the norm for them since the controversial birth.

2/17/09
Do you think the Octomom will really stay famous and get a book deal and a TV show?
—Octofever, Kansas

A TV show? Less likely every minute. Sure, one Emmy-winning reality-TV producer tells me he would love to give a series to Nadya Suleman, the jobless woman who used fertility treatments to birth eight children, after she already had six.

“She’s a trainwreck,” says Terence Noonan, who spent two years producing Elimidate. “You can’t stop watching.”

But Suleman keeps missing opportunities. Earlier today someone who works with the TLC network (home of 17 Kids and Counting and Jon & Kate Plus 8) told me they were open to working with her. Hours later, network prez Eileen O’Neill issued this statement: “TLC is not pursuing any program at this time with Nadya Suleman. We wish the family well.”

Oh well. And that’s not even the first of Suleman’s Hollywood fumbles…

She’s still lacking a key celeb necessity, that of representation. You know, an agent, a publicist—something. It’s hard to land the kinds of deals that’ll feed 14 mouths without the kinds of Hollywood pros who keep running away from her.

As it turns out, people are falling all over themselves to tell me how they don’trep her. In the past week or so, Suleman has gone through two publicity firms, neither of which rep her anymore. (Maybe it has something to do with the death threats?)

A firm called the Killeen-Furtney Group took on Suleman on Jan. 30 and stopped working with her around Valentine’s Day. An automated telephone message originating from the Killeen-Furtney offices indicates that Suleman is now represented by the Ambassador Agency, but they’re just as quick to deny any involvement with her.

In a statement issued Monday, Ambassador president Wes Yoder said, “Ambassador has not executed a representation agreement, nor do we intend to do so.

As of this second, no one officially flacks for her, and I could find very few publicists who said they would. Ditto with book publishers. (Off the record, one told me that free rubbernecking is one thing, but paying for it in hardback form is different altogether.)

“I think the only way I would rep her would be if she agreed to come out and tell the whole true story,” says Sara Lien, a PR director for a publishing company called BRIO. “I’m not sure she is doing this, and it is making her image take a nose-dive.”

“As long as she is seen as unstable or unlikable or selfish, she might help bring eyeballs to television or to a magazine that has a photo essay,” Bill Wolfsthal, associate publisher of Skyhorse (my publisher, by the way) tells me. “But I think it’s unlikely that people will want to read her book.”

All this may have you wondering: Some publicist is willing to represent Chris Brown, but not Suleman? Why?

One word, publicist Ann Marie van den Hurk tells me: “Money.”

2/11/08
Food stamp debate aside, mother of 14 Nadya Suleman is steadfastly sticking to her claim that she’s never taken taxpayers’ money.

Solicited, on the other hand…

Hot on the heels of her Todayshow denials that she’s a drain on society, the 33-year-old jobless octomom has established a website where exploitablegenerous citizens are invited to “meet the octuplet babies,” leave a comment and, of course, donate to the family.

The site lays out multiple ways to pitch in (all major credit cards accepted) via a mailing address where samaritans can send baby-friendly items and two ways to provide funds.

“We thank you from the bottom of our hearts,” reads a message from Suleman “and children.”

Presumably even more so for those who reach to the bottom of their wallets.