It IS true, the Constitution give him no EXECUTIVE authority.
Yes all his power is derived from whatever the President chooses to delegate. That is President Bush's purgative. It is a trend ;Al Gore had far more power than GHW Bush and it seems the VP office has evolved beyond that proverbial "warm bucket of spit" as VP John Nance Garner so eloquently described it.
I was talking about his argument about being a part of the legislature and therefore under no requirement to hand over classified documents to the National Archives. It seems to me that he is acting as a member of the Executive Branch and should comply with an executive order signed by President Bush regarding the inspection of the documents. Cheney has invoked executive privilege a number of times His principle constitutional role is to be around if the President croaks . Historically his Senate role is to break a tie. Rep. Rahm Emanuel makes an interesting case by saying that if Cheney isn't of the Executive Branch then his office funding should be cut from the Executive budget.
Well, I was a bit taken aback by this story this morning myself. But (you know there's always a 'but' from me), the office of VP has been redefined and evolving from the beginning, even though constitutionally he is part of the legislative branch. I agree with tom though that if he has been acting as part of the executive branch he is subject to the order. This is gonna get ugly, but what else is new?
yeah , except I think I intentionally went off the direction that Excon want to go with this . I'm sure he is commenting on the Washington Compost's 4 part expose on Cheney which so far has concentrated on detainees and Cheney's apparent authorship of a Presidential directive that Bush signed without input from Powell and Condi Rice.
tomder55 agrees: Sally Quinn is usually a pretty astute author ,but I think she is jumping the shark alittle here. Cheney's job is safe as long as the President wants it to be. John Warner may think he is saving the Republican party but he would usher in their defeat
You may be right, but what the President wants is becoming less and less relevant as time goes on. At some point, the rats (no disrespect intended) may stop abandoning the sinking ship and stage a mutiny to man the pumps to try and save it.
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Originally Posted by tomder55
That is President Bush's purgative.
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pur·ga·tive (pûrg-tv)
adj.
Tending to cleanse or purge, especially causing evacuation of the bowels.
n.
A purgative agent or medicine; a cathartic.
LOL. I think you may have meant "prerogative"? Then again, maybe not.
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