According to a letter released Thursday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Vice President Dick Cheney does not consider himself part of the Executive Branch under certain circumstances. This begs the question:

If our Founding Fathers created the United States government with three branches, and the Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch, to which of the other two branches does he belong?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/23/162526/131

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ABA to Congress: Sue Bush
by FWIW

Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 01:25:26 PM PDT

There have been several posts on dKos in recent weeks about signing statements: Pontificator's Professor Epstein Sounds the Alarm on Signing Statements, Daisy Cutter's Another Day, Another Signing Statement, Truth4AChange's American Monarchy, and my own Unitary Executive = Imperial Presidency?. These posts present some of the arguments that have been made to show how and why signing statements are unconstitutional. Yesterday I discovered that we "liberal bloggers" are in good company. U.S. News has posted an online article stating "Bar association task force urges Congress to push for judicial review of Bush signing statements. Yes, that Bar, the American Bar Association (ABA).