Cheney to Congress: Butt out. I'm a law unto myself.

I suppose Cheney thinks of himself as one of the Lodges or Cabots (whichever) in the old saying, "The Lodges speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God."

In what appears yet another effort to strengthen his position in the executive branch, the attorney for Vice President Dick Cheney said in a letter released by Congress Thursday that the Congress lacks "lacks the constitutional power" to conduct oversight over his job.