Cheney has GOT to go!

Is this jackass being kept around because he is the "real" President?

Is it because he knows Bush is pounding the Gin & Tonics?

Or is it because he's the kind of insurance against impeachment that Spiro Agnew was?

Over the last several days, several bloggers, including DeDurkheim in a fine post yesterday, commented on various articles regarding torture and the obtaining of false evidence -- evidence the Administration knew to be false -- that helped sell the Iraqi Invasion snow job.

This followed on the heels of information that the United States is running its own version of the Gulag Archipelago.

Now the Washington Post adds yet more information that the man most in favor of torture is one Richard Cheney:

Over the past year, Vice President Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects, according to defense, state, intelligence and congressional officials.

Last winter, when Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, began pushing to have the full committee briefed on the CIA's interrogation practices, Cheney called him to the White House to urge that he drop the matter, said three U.S. officials.

In recent months, Cheney has been the force against adding safeguards to the Defense Department's rules on treatment of military prisoners, putting him at odds with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon R. England. On a trip to Canada last month, Rice interrupted a packed itinerary to hold a secure video-teleconference with Cheney on detainee policy to make sure no decisions were made without her input.

This depraved fucker must go, he must go now.