A fourth branch of government? I guess if there's going to be 57 states, ala Obama, maybe he'll create a fourth branch to take care of the 7 new states.

In 2003, Cheney asserted that the office of the vice president is not an entity within the executive branch.

Nothing like waiting till the last minute.
What took so long?

This summer, Cheney chief of staff David Addington told Congress the vice president belongs to neither the executive nor legislative branch of government, but rather is attached by the Constitution to Congress.

Emphasis added.

Mr. Cheney? Steve Jobs called. He wants his Reality Distortion Field back.

Found this online:
The Plum Book (United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions): 2004 Edition

kinda odd...seems this appendix was added in 2004:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/2004/p226_appendix5.pdf

Cheney makes Nixon look like Mister Rogers.

What good is a court order requiring document preservation when the industial sized shredder has been on overtime for the last eight years? Cheney's attitude, history may consider me evil, but there will be no documents to support that conclusion.

Vice President Dick Cheney's Incredible and Deadly Lie: By Deceiving a Congressional Leader, Cheney Sent Us to War on False Pretenses And Violated the Separation of Powers - as Well as the Criminal Law, By JOHN W. DEAN, Sept. 19, 2008.

This week, I agreed to deliver a "Constitution Day" talk on a college campus. My talk was not partisan. Yet the subject matter I selected was prompted by the most incredible - not to mention the most deadly - lie Dick Cheney has yet told, which was reported earlier this week.

... when lying to Armey, Cheney clearly committed a "high crime or misdemeanor" in his blocking the Constitution's checks and balances from stopping our march into Iraq. During the debates that took place during the Constitution's ratification conventions, it was specifically stated that lying to Congress about matters of war would be an impeachable offense. Congress has also made it a crime.

Cheney must hold his records, By Christopher Lee, Washington Post, September 21, 2008.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Saturday ordering Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Archives to preserve all of his official records.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's order came in response to a lawsuit filed this month by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group, joined by several historians and open-government advocates, warned that Cheney might destroy or withhold important documents ...

I have every confidence that Cheney will honor this court order exactly the same way that Andrew Jackson honored the US Supreme Court's order to leave the Cherokee nation alone.

What's the difference between Cheney and Stalin? Not much.

What's the difference between Cheney and Stalin? Not much.

I dunno, I think the changes to soviet society under Stalin would be championed by the "progressives" of today. Lowered unemployment, universal health care, etc.

"What's the difference between Cheney and Stalin?"

Stalin shot his friends in the head on purpose.