The Bush administration's insistence, specifically that of Dick Cheney, that the Office of the Vice President is not part of the Executive or the Legislative branch but rather floats mysteriously between the two is over. Some on the right think too much of a big deal is made about this subject and that Bush & Cheney never implied the extremity of changing the Constitutional role of the vice president. But check this out. The Plum Book, which is a book listing government jobs for the new administration, was changed by the Bush administration to frame the role of the vice presidency:
The Vice Presidency is a unique office that is neither a part of the executive branch nor a part of the legislative branch, but is attached by the Constitution to the latter.
TPM
makes note that this is a strident distinction from past Plum Book listings. Officially George Bush and Dick Cheney viewed the vice presidency as some sort of floating office that answers to no one.
I kinda wish Obama-Biden would continue such
extra-constitutional un-constitutional powers just so I could hear all the right wing nutjobs crying about an Obama
dictatorship.
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