Vice President Cheney had to cut short this week's
visit to his oil investment properties tour of the Middle East to return to Washington, ostensibly to vote on the Defense Spending/ANWAR bill in the event of a tie in the Senate.
Upon his return to DC, he met with Bush tonight at the White House...transcript below the flip.
Cheney: (Enters Oval Office, sees Bush sitting behind desk, spinning in chair). What in the Hell are you doing in here? Your speech was Sunday night! Condi! Rummy! Karl! Someone get this imbecile out of my office before I have him renditioned somewhere for being a threat to national security!
Bush: I haven't renditioned for anything since Andover and Yale, but I think I still have spirit, yes I do. Ready! Begin! Give me a I! Give me an R! Give me a A! Give me a K! What's that spell? Vietnam! Go team, go!
Cheney: I said RENDITION, not audition, you ignorant girlie man. Where are Condi and Rummy? Why aren't they here to watch over you?
Bush: Gee, I don't know, President Cheney. They weren't expecting you to be back here until this weekend. Condi said something about wanting to invoke the Haig doctrine, and Rummy told me to just stay inside the White House, away from the tv cameras, til you got back.
Cheney:Well,, I had wanted to wait until after Christmas to tell you this, but I may as well go ahead and give you the bad news. I've been talking with our frieds Delay, Frist, Libby, and others, and we've all agreed that there needs to be accountability for the mistakes in Iraq, the leaks over spying domestically, and the big ass budget deficit. Just nailing Condi or Rummy or me isn't enough. The buck stops with you, George, so we're going to have you impeached. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.