Cheney not under President; sloppy with security?

[mattp]

Articles in today's LA Times and Washington Post report a story about Cheney, refusing to comply with a Bush Presidential Order about security procedures, and one of the grounds for that refussal is that he says he is not really part of the Executive Branch.

 

LA times

 

Washington Post

 

 

Wow.

[kevbone]

"The vice presidency is a unique office that is neither a part of the executive branch nor a part of the legislative branch, but is attached by the Constitution to the latter. The vice presidency performs functions in both the legislative branch … and in the executive branch."

 

 

Yeah....wow.

[ScottP]

Yeah...but he's so cute...

 

[dt_3pin]

For fuck sake. I think this may confirm that Cheney has never actually taken a look at the Constitution.

 

 

 

[mattp]

You gotta admire his pluck!

[whirlwind]

this is the kinda shit that makes me sad

[ScottP]

For fuck sake. I think this may confirm that Cheney has never actually taken a look at the Constitution.

 

I imagine he has...right after he wiped his ass with it.

[Seahawks]

bunch of whinning dems.

Edited June 22, 2007 by Seahawks

[Weekend_Climberz]

 

If you look closely, he's actually pinching a loaf onto the Constitution in this photo.

[dt_3pin]

If you look closely, he's actually pinching a loaf onto the Constitution in this photo.

 

:lmao:

[Seahawks]

If you look closely, he's actually pinching a loaf onto the Constitution in this photo.

 

:lmao:

 

That was pretty funny. Does look like one's coming out sideways.

[murraysovereign]

the vice president has not complied with the order because his office has dual functions: It is part of the executive branch - the Bush administration - but also part of the legislative branch, given Cheney's position as president of the Senate.

 

As such, the vice president's office has no legal obligation to abide by the order because it only applies to the executive branch, said the Cheney staffer, who ... requested anonymity.

 

And

 

Some legal scholars and government secrecy experts noted the irony in Cheney's stance that his office is not fully part of the executive branch, given his claims of executive privilege when refusing to provide information requested by Congress.

 

So, he's not bound by rules governing the executive branch because he's part of the legislative. And he's not bound by rules governing the legislative branch because he's part of the executive. So he's not bound by any rules at all.

 

I don't see anything wrong with that at all.

 

[wayne]

He has completely re-engineered this country from that office.

[Seahawks]

He has completely re-engineered this country from that office.

 

:lmao:

[wayne]

Strong arguement there. Yes it is not funny how from day 1 he let the corporations move right in to the whitehouse and Enron the country

[mattp]

Bush says his office, like Cheney's, is exempt from his own order.

 

LA Times

[cj001f]

from the grotesque to the bizarre

[G-spotter]

Bush says his office, like Cheney's, is exempt from his own order.

 

LA Times

 

"Do as I say, not as I do"

[Fairweather]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/orders/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order_%28United_States%29

 

http://www.thisnation.com/question/040.html

[Marko]

This isn't real. Please tell me this isn't real. This can't be fucking real.

[Marko]

Thanks for the list Fairweather, so the fuss is about EO 12598, March 25, '03?

[Doug]

C'mon boys & girls. At least Bush or Cheney are'nt having sexual relations with interns. You know everything they do is to save us from the terrorists.

 

God, I can't believe I got all the way through those last two sentences without puking on the keyboard.