From Raw Story:
Following Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney's office.
The amendment to the bill that sets the funding for the executive branch will be considered next week in the House of Representatives.
"The Vice President has a choice to make. If he believes his legal case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive branch," said Emanuel in a statement released to RAW STORY. "However, if he demands executive branch funding he cannot ignore executive branch rules. At the very least, the Vice President should be consistent. This amendment will ensure that the Vice President's funding is consistent with his legal arguments."
In order to cut Dick at the knees is through his personal purse and wallet! Good for Emanuel!
3 comments:
Time to call the lobbyist and cash in some shares of Halliburton to fund that big office. Now what happens when a vote is needed in the Senate will the Dickster be the Head of the Senate or in the 4th Branch that can't vote. That Nixon play book is in full use. For you youngins this is how Watergate started and why laws were made to never let it happen again. So much for those laws. Now if Richard Milhouse Nixon was made to pay for his crimes this wouldn't be happening. Again we can thank the Republicans for that.
Good for Rahn Emmanual! Between him and Durbin, and Obama we don't have deadbeat elected officials.
You are in good hands, Chicago Native!
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