I love the plan from Rep. Rahm Emanuel (awesome first name, too) to defund the Vice President’s office. Cheney is claiming that he doesn’t need to open his office to examination, as required by an Executive Order, because that order applies to the Executive Branch, which he is not a member of. If he just said that he’s not going to comply then I’d think he was evil, but no more so than before. But to claim something so palpably untrue, so utterly nonsensical, deserves a smart-arse response. And Emanual has just the thing; remove the funding supplied to his office as part of the Executive Branch, and let him live off the money he gets as president of the Senate.
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As noted on yesterday’s Daily Show, it was only a few months ago Cheney was saying that he shouldn’t release some other kind of info for precisely the opposite reason – that he *is* a member of the Executive Branch.
It seems to me that we have some interesting meta stuff going on. Firstly he’s saying that it’s a secret about the secrets he’s keeping (a meta-secret, if you will); also he’s trying to become some kind of quantam lawmaker – neither in one state nor the other, or at least unpredictable, or perhaps like a quantam particle the mere act of looking at him makes him change state.