A man joined the crowd around Dick Cheney at a conference in Colorado and told him that he thinks Cheney’s Iraq policies are “reprehensible.” Secret Service officers handcuffed him and charged him with assaulting the vice president. This makes perfect sense since, under new definition of torture as “aggressive questioning,” the man was torturing Cheney.

In other news, President Bush assaulted the Constitutional separation of powers again today, signing a Congressional mandate that FEMA heads be minimally qualified for the job by adding a big “…NOT!” to it in the form of yet another “signing statement.” [Tags: cheney george_bush free_speech signing_statements fema]

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