'Dick' Cheney Declares Self King!

sleepyjeff · 06-24-2007, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Enemies?Is the National Archives his enemy??

No. Henry Waxman

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I'm sorry sleepyjeff but this really gets me going.

It's ok. I've had things get me going too(this just happens not to be one

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

To me, the Vice President is clearly part of the executive. The fact that his only executive duty is to wait for the president to die does not change that. The fact that the Vice President serves as president of the Senate does not make him a member of the Senate any more than the fact that the Chief Justice presides over impeachment trials does.

That's a good point and I would tend to agree. But surely you can see where the argument comes from and why given that possible loophole the VP would want to cling to it until told by a higher authority then Henry Waxman(D) that he can't?

Ghoulish Delight · 06-24-2007, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

That's a good point and I would tend to agree. But surely you can see where the argument comes from and why given that possible loophole the VP would want to cling to it until told by a higher authority then Henry Waxman(D) that he can't?

Except that's not even the "argument" the White House is using. Their entire "justification" is, "Oh, we know what it SAYS, but that's not what it MEANS."