{"id":122,"date":"2007-06-21T17:51:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T21:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/06\/21\/dick-constitution-killer-cheney-strikes-again\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T20:50:19","slug":"dick-constitution-killer-cheney-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/06\/21\/dick-constitution-killer-cheney-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick &#8220;Constitution Killer&#8221; Cheney Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if President Bush was as surprised as the rest of us at learning that his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9888.html\">VEEP isn&#8217;t part of the Executive Branch.<\/a>\u00a0 Yup, Bush&#8217;s Lord and Master Dick Cheney has declared his office to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/BL2007062101075.html\">exempt from all sorts of pesky legal Executive Branch requirements<\/a> because &#8212; presto chango &#8212; it isn&#8217;t part of the Executive Branch.\u00a0 Needless to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/thegate.nationaljournal.com\/2007\/06\/waxman_vs_cheney.php\">Henry Waxman<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yubanet.com\/artman\/publish\/article_59615.shtml\">House Oversight and Government Reform\u00a0Committee aren&#8217;t pleased with Cheney&#8217;s out-of-the-box Constitution-plundering assertion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just one question: If\u00a0VEEP Cheney isn&#8217;t part of the Executive Branch, does that mean he&#8217;s waived his right to claim <a href=\"http:\/\/writ.news.findlaw.com\/dorf\/20020206.html\">Executive Privilege?<\/a>\u00a0 Just wondering.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/legalhumor.html\">of my legal and lawyer humor and satire here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><!--fingerprint-->[tags]Dick Cheney, Vice President Richard Cheney, Executive Privilege, Executive Branch, Chairman\u00a0Waxman, House Oversight And Government Reform Committee, Constitutional Crisis, George Bush, Satire[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if President Bush was as surprised as the rest of us at learning that his VEEP isn&#8217;t part of the Executive Branch.\u00a0 Yup, Bush&#8217;s Lord and Master Dick Cheney has declared his office to be exempt from all sorts of pesky legal Executive Branch requirements because &#8212; presto chango &#8212; it isn&#8217;t part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,85,23,16,20,70,14,2,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution-humor","category-constitutional-crisis","category-democracy-humor","category-dick-cheney","category-gop-humor","category-henry-waxman","category-house","category-law","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}