These are not the droids ... um ... er

Cheney the Changling. Our Vice President wants to abolish his office and designate himself as an untouchable fourth branch of the government, an anomaly, a rare jackass that can't breed with any type of politics. Who saw that one coming? Apparently not the Information Security Oversight Office, when they asked him for documents for the last four years.

Has his heart medication gone to his brain? Did he forget his grade school lesson about the Vice President being part of the executive branch? Or, did he forget that he IS the Vice President? What's next? Will he consider himself the New and Improved Mark Foley, ordering around hand jobs?

Apparently, he knows his ass will soon be in hot water, and has decided to stall for time by creating a fourth branch of government? And, by the way, when was this fourth branch of government created? Is this just something that President Monkey recently signed?

It couldn't have been signed before 2001, because back then, Cheney claimed himself part of the executive branch to protect himself from a congressional probe into his energy task force ... ahem ... Haliburton ... cough, cough.

So, now our Vice President has just made himself the surreal entity that can just jump back and forth, over the line between executive branch and head of the Senate as it suits his big wide fancy. He's here. Now he's over there. Oh, now's he gone duck hunting? WTF?

All of this is so weird that it's beginning to play out like some bizarre Monty Pythonesqe political version of Star Wars, where Cheney waives his right hand over the Information Security Oversight Office and said, "These are not the records you are looking for."

This country needs some serious help.

Comments

[Spiffy]

You might be on to something ... like a sequel to Space Balls.

[MadonnaFan]

Or the X-President Files.

[Paloma Campos]

I guess this country has room for more than one "Tricky Dick".

[Gab]

Let's hope we never see more than two.