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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (763065)	6/29/2007 11:51:06 AM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"I don't think that is what he claimed. I think he claimed that he was not an "agency" or "entity" within the Executive to which the statute applied. I think the argument made was that as a Constitutional officer, he was exempt. Its not an unreasonable argument...but it is totally politically tone deaf for sure." Not just politically tone deaf....he actually claimed more than you say, which is why the threat to cut out the funding for the Vice-President's office because Cheney disclaimed being part of the Executive Branch (for which the funding had been approved) brought him back to reality pretty fast. There was no funding approved for some "extra-Executive quasi legislative special office of Vice-President", nor would there be. He dropped the argument of his exclusion like a hot potato(e).