Dick Cheney is the first US vice President who had the executive authority more than his President .. Why?????
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Executive authority (powers) are delegated in the Constitution of the United States.  Primarily these delegated powers (in terms of the executive branch are to the President of the United States.\n\nThe Vice President is also President of the Senate, but this has little power unless a vote in the Senate is tied, then the Vice President (as President of the Senate) can cast the deciding vote.\n\nIn line of accession he can replace the president if the President dies, is incapacitated, or impeached.  \n\nOther than that he has no real power.  \n\nAny advice he provides or jobs he does, are at the direction of the President.  The President can shut the Vice President off from any real contact as to what is going on, at any time.\n\nWhile in the past Vice Presidents have traditionally more or less stayed out of things and remote, there has been a growing trend for the President to provide more tasks for the Vice President, but they are always under the thumb of the President.\n\nThe relationship between President Bush and Vice President Cheney go back many years and part of that relationship is one where the Vice President advises the President far more than has typically occurred.  However, the Vice President is only one adviser among many.\n\nIn short, the premise of your questions is wrong.  The President is in charge and has all of the authority relative to the Vice President.
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I was going to say that Traitor may be too strong of a word for this however, after thinking about it Ive changed my mind.  As a former Vice President one would hope he would have had a little more respect for America, the administration and our armed services.  In times of war the last thing we need is a former VP giving the enemy ammo to use against us or fanning the fire.  This could lead to added hostility and attacks on US troops.  If that is the case we have Al Gore to blame.
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When the country was formed the three branches were meant to be equals.  The Supreme Court quickly fell behind in importance compared to the other two and was saved by John Jay from being completly irrelevant.  Back then, the President did not have the executive authority that he does now.  Congress retained broader powers and would be stunned to see how much power the President has.  The President cannot start the process for laws in this country but is one of the major policy players in that they get congressional members to put the bill before the chambers.  The Speaker of the House and the President were much closer in relationship of power than they are now with the Speaker having little power beyond the House.
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No G.W. just has to answer to his Dick....Cheney that is. By the way Jack,go back to my question on abortion and read the one right below your answer...it is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!....Where is your lion joke anyway????
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Cheney didn't shoot a senator.  He ACCIDENTALLY shot a lawyer friend of his.  I swear, some folks need to get their heads out of their rectal canal...\n\n\nYou edited your post, subcultural, but your head is STILL up your butt.
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Actually, I think all politicians have way too much power.  In the case of the president, the problem is that he presides over a vast entrenched bureaucracy that cannot change very quickly, and still less when it is asked to down-size.  So it's not so much the president's power that has grown directly, but his authority to increase bureaucracy, which grows like mushrooms after a rain.
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He beat out Nixon for top honors, that's for sure. Let's see if He'll try to become Dictator for life. He' already has a head start with being appointed president once, and stealing it another time.\nViva La Resistance!!!
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The american people like a "hero". \nAlso you appear to labouring under the assumption that the president has power and runs stuff. An ordinary person is also not easily controllable, so those a few levels down in the chain of command make sure the president is controllable; Say for example a liar (for blackmail), womaniser (blackmail), actor (too stuck up to realise whats going on) or stupid (too stupid to see whats going on)
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Depends on who you ask.\n\nThe President Power\n\nVice President Dick Cheney recently told the Washington Post that when the Bush administration entered office, it was determined to reinvigorate the presidency and reverse the steady reduction in executive power and prerogative that had persisted since Watergate. But what reduction could the vice president have had in mind? “The vice president,” noted Sen. John E. Sununu (R-N.H.), “may be the only person I know of that believes the executive has somehow lost power over the last 30 years.”\n\nWhether or not the vice president was correct in his analysis of the state of the presidency in the year 2000, there can be no question that since then George W. Bush has dramatically expanded the powers of the president—primarily though not exclusively in matters pertaining to the war on terror.\n\nOne of the most notorious examples involved the torture of prisoners, a power the administration claimed in the face of law and international agreements to the contrary. “The assertion in the various legal memoranda that the President can order the torture of prisoners despite statutes and treaties forbidding it was another reach for presidential hegemony,” wrote Anthony Lewis in the New York Review of Books. “The basic premise of the American constitutional system is that those who hold power are subject to the law … . Bush’s lawyers seem ready to substitute something like the divine right of kings.”\n\nArguably the greatest controversy of all was the revelation at the end of 2005 that the Bush administration had engaged in domestic surveillance without the necessary warrants. James Bamford, author of two books on the National Security Agency, points out the pertinent aspects of what would appear to be the relevant law: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), passed in 1978. According to Bamford, then-Attorney General Griffin Bell testified before the intelligence committee that FISA acknowledged no “inherent power of the President to conduct electronic surveillance.” As Bell himself put it, “This bill specifically states that the procedures in the bill are the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be conducted.”\n\nIn the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush administration officials spoke again and again of the president’s inherent powers. But the pertinent statute in this case disclaims any such powers and requires that the president proceed according to the guidelines set out by Congress, which involves securing warrants from a special court. As things stand, the president is claiming a right to engage in surveillance of any American, unrestrained by any institutional check, in the service of the war on terror—a war that by its very nature must go on indefinitely and, indeed, that we can never really know is truly over.\n\nAccording to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the reason the administration did not seek to revise FISA to give the president the clear and unambiguous power to order these wiretaps was that even a Republican Congress would not have gone along. In a Dec. 19 press briefing, the attorney general said, “We have had discussions with Congress in the past—certain members of Congress—as to whether or not FISA could be amended to allow us to adequately deal with this kind of threat, and we were advised that that would be difficult, if not impossible.”\n\nThe administration’s claim, as set forth by the attorney general, is that Congress implicitly agreed to such wiretaps when in the days following Sept. 11 it authorized the use of force against the perpetrators and their allies. Of course, if Congress really had authorized them, it is not clear why it would be so difficult for the administration to persuade Congress to amend FISA accordingly in light of this permission.\n\nGonzales’s argument calls to mind H.L. Mencken’s 1937 “Constitution for the New Deal,” a satirical rewrite of the U.S Constitution, whi
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What people don't understand, is during the trial for impeachment, if Bush were found guilty, Cheney would be found guilty of C.A.H. also, and would Not become the next President. \n\nIs this why people are afraid to attempt to impeach Bush?  If an investigation began for impeachment process, we could all see Cheney is the puppet master. \n\nUnfortunately, the Dem's are having to battle a deeply embedded evil power that goes beyond Bush.  Things will only get worse. \n\n.
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A prime minister is elected from parliament to be the head of the government.  A president is completely separate from the legislative body.  A vice president is usually pretty powerless - fulfilling the duties the president can't or doesn't want to do.
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He is not the greatest President ever. I wouldn't put him in that category. And just because the media is bringing up stories of controversy doesn't mean anything. There are controversies in every presidency, not just this one. And the Bush administration is not abusing power. FDR did it. Clinton did it. (as for as the "spying")There is no abuse of power. Our government is made of checks and balances and just because he's the president does not make him all powerful. It's crazy how people get the picture that just because someone is the President they're allowed to be a loose canon without restraint and then answer later for actions.
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The President, and not just America.  The president is the most powerful person in the world.
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yes he and all his puppets took a thumpin and he is mostly responsible for his failed administration.he thought he was a ruler of the world and was beyond rules or laws.the American people took him down off his high horse and i praise them for it because it had to be done.now let's hope we see some investigations so we can find out just what the hell they were doing,because we know they weren't doing anything for this country.
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what? \n\ncalifornia doesn't have a vice president.  the country does...\n\nthe state has a governor and a lieutenant governor..
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HAHAHA....  yeah... Cheney has just worked four times harder than our lazy president... geez why doesn't he get off his butt and make a decent living... and it's all been only because of his hard work... it has nothing to do with the HUGE rise in Halliburton stock that has made him tens of millions over the past 6 years...
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The President was Ronald Reagan.  The Vice President was George Bush, father to current United States' President G.W. Bush.\n\nThe election which made George Bush, Sr., the president of the United States of America was in 1988, not 1987 (My first election I got to vote in, too).  He was inaugurated on January 20, 1989.  From Election Day to Inauguration, the man who is to be inaugurated is called the President Elect and he has no powers as president until  Inauguration Day, when he takes the Oath of Office.