There is a side-splitting degree of sheer chutzpah with Dick Cheney and his brushing away of the National Archives that the vice presidency is not part of the Executive Branch.\u00c2\u00a0 He is daring the opposition to do something about it, which… nobody will.\u00c2\u00a0 Except, I suppose, record the incident for posterity.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand, there’s not much new here — this is the m’o for Bush as well, though he’s slid under various signing statements and procedures of “Executive Privilege”.
\nBut while we’re on the subject, I now ask to open up Dan Quayle’s archives to see if he was part of the executive branch, or if this is a Cheney exemption, and there is a question of whether Dan Quayle’s archives include anything important enough to open up to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is a side-splitting degree of sheer chutzpah with Dick Cheney and his brushing away of the National Archives that the vice presidency is not part of the Executive Branch.\u00c2\u00a0 He is daring the opposition to do something about it, which… nobody will.\u00c2\u00a0 Except, I suppose, record the incident for posterity.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand, there’s not much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}