ClydeR
12-21-2008, 09:44 PM
Regardless of how you feel about Vice President Cheney, you have to admit that he will go down in history as one of the most influential vice presidents in United States history.
In an interview with Chris Wallace this morning on Fox News Sunday, Cheney suggested that his successor will not be nearly so consequential.
WALLACE: During the vice presidential debate in October, Joe Biden was asked about your interpretation of the powers of your office as vice president, and here's what he said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BIDEN: Vice President Cheney's been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Transition officials say that Biden plans to shrink his office, that he is not going to meet with Senate Democrats the way you did every week with Senate Republicans, that he is not going to have his own, quote, "shadow government" in the White House.
Biden has said that he believes you have dangerously expansive views of executive power.
CHENEY: Well, I just fundamentally disagree with him. He also said that the — all the powers and responsibilities of the executive branch are laid out in Article 1 of the Constitution. Well, they're not. Article 1 of the Constitution is the one on the legislative branch.
Joe's been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware, and can't keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which provides for the executive.
So I think -- I write that off as campaign rhetoric. I don't take it seriously. And if he wants to diminish the office of vice president, that's obviously his call.
I think that President-elect Obama will decide what he wants in a vice president. And apparently, from the way they're talking about it, he does not expect him to have as consequential a role as I've had during my time.
More... (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470706,00.html)
I'll sure miss Cheney! I always felt safe knowing that he was on the job.
In an interview with Chris Wallace this morning on Fox News Sunday, Cheney suggested that his successor will not be nearly so consequential.
WALLACE: During the vice presidential debate in October, Joe Biden was asked about your interpretation of the powers of your office as vice president, and here's what he said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BIDEN: Vice President Cheney's been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Transition officials say that Biden plans to shrink his office, that he is not going to meet with Senate Democrats the way you did every week with Senate Republicans, that he is not going to have his own, quote, "shadow government" in the White House.
Biden has said that he believes you have dangerously expansive views of executive power.
CHENEY: Well, I just fundamentally disagree with him. He also said that the — all the powers and responsibilities of the executive branch are laid out in Article 1 of the Constitution. Well, they're not. Article 1 of the Constitution is the one on the legislative branch.
Joe's been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware, and can't keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which provides for the executive.
So I think -- I write that off as campaign rhetoric. I don't take it seriously. And if he wants to diminish the office of vice president, that's obviously his call.
I think that President-elect Obama will decide what he wants in a vice president. And apparently, from the way they're talking about it, he does not expect him to have as consequential a role as I've had during my time.
More... (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470706,00.html)
I'll sure miss Cheney! I always felt safe knowing that he was on the job.