Rahm Emanual wants to defund Cheney's office

You've got to like logic behind this.  If Cheney thinks he is not part of the Executive Branch, then why should his office get any Executive funding?:

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois isthreatening to defund the office of the vice president in response torevelations that Dick Cheney is locked in a dispute with the NationalArchives over the preservation of classified documents.

Emanuel plans to offer an amendment to a spending bill next week todefund Cheney's office. The vice president's office contends that, aspresident of the Senate, he and his staff are not a part of executivebranch but rather an office in the legislative branch.

"The Vice President has a choice to make," Emanuel said in astatement. "If he believes his legal case, his office has no businessbeing funded as part of the executive branch. However, if he demandsexecutive branch funding he cannot ignore executive branch rules."

This could just be something to fire up the blogosphere.  But ifCongressman Rahm Emanual (D-IL) follows through and presses hard forthis, it will be the most significant effort to restrict Cheney's power.

That Washington Post article today is really raising the pressure on the Vice President's office.

Comments

[granny]

Bravo, Rahm Emanual! This is exactly what it's going to take to ferret out this group, tucked away in their rat holes, with lawyers at every door. In "the decider's" words: Smoke 'em out!

[George]

every time you forget there are democrats in congress, one pops up and says something.

[karyn rodriguez]

way to go! someone with some guts.

Cut cheney off! It's time for the continued felonies that have happened in this exective and judicial branch of bushs admn.

wish we had more like you in washington.

[Fr. Al]

Amen. Finally a Democrat who makes me proud to be one from Illinois.