You Want Logic? Here’s Logic!

Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) has come up with the logical response to Dick Cheney’s assertion that his office is not part of the executive branch of government. Yesterday, Vice President Cheney's office refused to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information for the past four years. In order to justify the Vice President's practice of keeping all matters concerning his office, all actions concerning his office and all acts concerning his office secret, Cheney said his office is not part of the executive branch of government. Next week, Emanuel plans to introduce an amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney's office. This morning Emanuel released a statement to Raw Story: "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. 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." Emanuel says if Cheney feels his office is not part of the executive branch "he should return the salary the American taxpayers have been paying him since January 2001, and move out of the home for which they are footing the bill." There you go! Sounds just and right to me.