Democracy for Vancouver

Abbot: There is only 35 chambers in Shaolin, there isn't a 36th chamber.

San Te: I know, I'd like to create it.

Dick Cheney is the true political kungfu master:

Never in the history of the United States has anyone contended that the Vice President is outside the executive branch. Never. Not even during last call at a bar outside of the country's worst law school.

But then, in 2004, Dick Cheney needed to circumvent the National Archives' oversight of how his office handles classified information, and suddenly the vice president hovers in the constitutional equivalent of Purgatory, belonging to neither the executive nor the legislative branches. Poor Cactus Jack Garner: he thought the veep's job wasn't worth "a warm bucket of spit," when in fact the office bestrides constitutional governance like an all-powerful colossus.

In Cheney's case, he's making up entirely new Constitutional justifications.  Now, the question is, if he isn't part of the Executive branch, then how can he claim the shield of executive privilege?  And why are Democrats caving in to calls for impeaching this low life dictator? 

Is Waxman's kungfu stronger than Cheney's?   Stay tuned.