I don't know why I'm celebrating. Cheney will just send his hoods into the streets to turn us all upside down, shake our pockets, and steal our lunch money.

You wouldn't think it would take so long for someone in power to declare that the naked VP has no clothes. This is a start.

Now, about that impeachment...

Every once in a while Rahm has a good idea. Now if he can just have it enacted.

he would call for the impeachment of the Vice President. It is time to stop playing games with our freedom. It is time to stop the "extra legal" activity that pre-Bush/Cheney we referred to in this country as "crime." everyone recognizes that Cheney is a common school yard type bully (well, everyone except his boss). He will continue to make a mockery of law and the rule of law until someone stops him. The reputation of Congress has sunk lower than the approval of the worst president in United States history and yet they are still acting like boot-licking fops. Someone is going to have to step up and say "that's it, the bullshit is over." If Congress wants to be an equal branch of our government, instead of professional spectators getting paid to get dumped on, they are going to have demonstrate a little courage and bring the charges against The Dick. You want some respect, Rahm? You want to be a leader in a real Congress really protecting America? Earn it! Fight back, you wimp!

who thinks this is a bad idea? This sounds like some dumbass political maneuvering to show Cheney a thing or two without considering the actual ramifications of the action.

Does this not legitimize Cheney's argument? Does this not endorse that the VP is outside of the executive branch? Does this mean we can expect for no more VPs to run for office along side the nominees from each party?

Anything that validates an argument that Cheney made seems like a spurious idea at best.

Maybe the better question to ask is what authority Congress has over the president at this point? He selectively signs and implements laws and Congress doesn't seem to have the stomach for impeachment. What are they doing but enabling the VP (acting as the defacto President) during what has become a lame duck presidency?

It's about damn time Democrats started playing politics the Republican way. No hearings, no debates, no depositions, no subpoenas and NO FUNDING. It's so beautiful and elegant in its simplicity that it's hard to believe that a Democrat thought of it. (And I'll bet Cheney's upper lip is now somewhere in the neighborhood of his hairline.)

Stop these foolhardy games. Call this bastard to Congress to explain himself. If your friggin' teenaged son pulled this crap he'd be called into the kitchen and grounded for a month. Cut the crap. Subpoena this idiot who is flaunting our once proud government and read him the riot act for Christ's sake!

Then suspend his ass for a month while the courts figure it out.

I, for one, would much rather have Cheney in the legislative branch because then all of his refusals to testify before Congress on the basis of "executive privilege" fly right out the window. In fact, Congress would have much more control over a vice-president who's part of the legislative branch than they have over anyone in the executive branch. That's the slippery slope that Cheney put himself on when he started this whole thing. (Actually, he started the whole thing back in 2001 when he started exempting himself and his people from having to report their travel expenses. According to David Addington in a 2002 letter: "The Office of the Vice President is not an 'agency of the executive branch,' and hence the reporting requirement does not apply.")

Too bad Cheney didn't think this through (or maybe he did and gambled that the Democrats wouldn't have the balls to challenge him). Either way, Cheney has put himself in a corner and Rahm Emanuel has called his bluff. (I hate it when I mix my metaphors.) I, for one, am just going to sit back and watch how this whole thing plays out. No matter how it all ends, Cheney winds up looking like a fool and he did it to himself. I wonder who he'll blame.

Good idea because it give publicity to Cheney's claim he's not in executive branch which MSM is pretty much ignoring. Bad idea because it give credence to the idea that Cheney, rather than the constitution, gets to decide this. The ugly; almost everything the vp office, as its own entity has done, stands for, spread. I agree it is no longer beyond my capacity to imagine Dick Cheney played some part in facilitating the 9/11 attacks, and that's a long sad, way to come. Whether or not he did, (and I would still vote no on this to protect my own sense of sanity) just the fact I can consider it seriously was beyond my previous belief or imagination. I preferred the previous, but the manic secrecy does seem to suggest either a paranoid mental illness, or a huge, huge, cover-up for something unspeakable.

The key here would be if the budget amendment passes, cementing Cheney's position in the Legislative Branch; Congress must then turn around and revisit the Energy Commission Meetings that were sealed by "executive privelege"

Then things will get interesting.

This is what passes for a DLC-type handslap, I guess, when what they should be slapping on Cheney's hands are a pair of cuffs. Impeach him, already. What's left for Cheney to do, besides firing up the Constitution with some kerosene and matches? Declaring martial law, maybe?

Democrats had better step carefully ! Dick Cheney might well decide to abolish the Senate. He IS the President of the Senate - - by divine right. Correct ? So knowing Dick's deranged mind, that's his next step.

Democrats had better step carefully ! Dick Cheney might well decide to abolish the Senate. He IS the President of the Senate - - by divine right. Correct ? So knowing Dick's deranged mind, that's his next step.

The Imperial Senate will no longer be a concern for us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently.