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Now it seems the Bush government is taking its maze of a governing process to a new low once again.
It was convenient in the early years of this failed administration for the vice-president to claim executive privilege to hide the blatant payoff to energy campaign contributors. Only now are leaks coming out about how the campaign cash cows divided tax breaks and planned the rape of national parks and lands.
However, now it seems the office of the vice-president, backed in full by the Oval Office occupant, is fending of Senate and House subpoenas for information by claiming the office does not fall under the law for congressional of oversight of executive offices.
In a thinking process rivaling Rube Goldberg, this administration claims because the vice-president presides over the Senate he is therefore not a member of the executive branch and subsequently cannot be scrutinized and held accountable under the present law. Absolutely incredible.
But the saddest part to this story is the media's general lack of anger over this latest perversion of law. This is just one more crack in our foundation of liberty, one more blow to our notion that no man - be he president or vice-president - is above the law of the land. After all, this is the same media which fails to get too angered over the nearly 800 signing laws Bush has made to in effect invalidate the acts of congress he is signing into law.
I may have misspoken - perhaps the saddest part is not the media's lack of concern - instead it may be the American citizens themselves for tuning out. Instead of being outraged at the administration they seem more interested in the Paris Hilton saga.
I guarantee the signers of our Declaration of Independence would be as outraged at this rape of our Constitution and the new definition of patriot by King George in Washington as they were at the taxation without representation and the trampling of civil rights by the then King George of England.
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