Dick Cheney--the 4th branch of government?

From Digby:

"When I asked if Cheney had "found" a fourth branch of government in position that until a decade or so ago was considered a seat warmer for a presidential run and the designated state funeral stand-in for the president, I didn't realize they were actually setting this forth as a legal argument. Dear God.

"This means that he considers himself even more "unitary" than he considers the president, beyond all reach of either branch, answerable to no one.

"Cheney is refusing to comply with a presidential executive order. What do you suppose the Empty Codpiece feels about this? Does he know that his Vice president believes he has an independent office that doesn't answer to him or anyone else?

"But maybe Junior likes being publicly humiliated by Dick Cheney. He seems to have a very high tolerance for looking like one of history's most memorable horses asses, so who knows?""


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_digbysblog_archive.html#117107982670783759

Impeach him, already.

Much less the fourth.

Our congresscritters are afraid of their own shadows, leaving us wishing that the Constitution contained a provision allowing the citizens to require a recall vote.

Cheney has been the head of Government while Bush is the head of state.

Let's have his name (Chainy) reflect his (upcoming) position...

Yes, that is why there was no ban on homosexual marriage!

Bush proposed a ban 2 years ago, Congress was uncertain, but then Cheney vetoed it (considers questions about his daughter "inappropriate") before Bush could get conservatives to push their congresspeople.

Yes, it really happened like that. At least if you think that Bush really cared about homosexual marriage in the first place.


Kind of ironic that an ultra-conservative vice-president could have a gay daughter raising a child from an unknown father, and think even questions about it are "inappropriate." That's right, liberal media, back off the family values vice-president.

pushing George Bush as a man just smart enough to realize how dumb he was, so he would know to surround himself by intelligent, experienced people. The one factor we overlooked, is that one of these intelligent, experienced people would take over. And that's what happened.

So, I resolve that the next time we find a candidate who isn't qualified for the job, DON'T PLUG HIS CANDIDACY!

Thank you, Chris Matthews, for nuthin.