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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 214156" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I’m confused…..</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The executive branch is the President. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The Vice President is an advisor to the president, a Cabinet Member and the President of the Senate, otherwise known as the legislative branch. He also leads commissions and manages projects created by the President.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And, oddly enough, the members of the Cabinet are referred to as the most senior appointed officers of the “<span style="color: black"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_branch" target="_blank"><span style="color: black">executive branch</span></a>”.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">To make this even clearer, an executive order was issued in 1995 by President Clinton, which excludes the office of Vice Presidency from the executive branch. He did this to create a system that would protect classified information. Which makes Cheney exempt from executive orders regarding classified documents.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">But if the responsibilities of the Vice Presidency are at all executive, which I believe they are, then his position should be bound by executive rules. Being legislative doesn’t mean following executive rules just as being executive doesn’t mean following legislative rules, otherwise all branches of the government could perform each other's jobs without being held accountable to any rules at all. If anything, the Vice Presidency should be held to an even higher level of accountability than either branch because he works within so many sets of circumstances. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Somehow, I don’t believe Cheney’s the one who deserves the heat on this one…</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 214156, member: 8657"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I’m confused…..[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The executive branch is the President. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The Vice President is an advisor to the president, a Cabinet Member and the President of the Senate, otherwise known as the legislative branch. He also leads commissions and manages projects created by the President.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]And, oddly enough, the members of the Cabinet are referred to as the most senior appointed officers of the “[COLOR=black][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_branch"][COLOR=black]executive branch[/COLOR][/URL]”.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]To make this even clearer, an executive order was issued in 1995 by President Clinton, which excludes the office of Vice Presidency from the executive branch. He did this to create a system that would protect classified information. Which makes Cheney exempt from executive orders regarding classified documents.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]But if the responsibilities of the Vice Presidency are at all executive, which I believe they are, then his position should be bound by executive rules. Being legislative doesn’t mean following executive rules just as being executive doesn’t mean following legislative rules, otherwise all branches of the government could perform each other's jobs without being held accountable to any rules at all. If anything, the Vice Presidency should be held to an even higher level of accountability than either branch because he works within so many sets of circumstances. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Somehow, I don’t believe Cheney’s the one who deserves the heat on this one…[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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