Daily Show humor: Cheney claims he's member of Supreme Court
The Daily Show offered its take Tuesday night on the swirling controversy about Vice President Dick Cheney's efforts to define his own role in our government with no consideration paid to centuries of constitutional precedent.
Referencing Cheney's insistence he does not exist within the executive or legislative branches of government, Host Jon Stewart introduced him as "part vice president, part legislator, half she-wolf, if you will. How else to explain those eight teats?"
The Washington Post on Sunday revealed that Cheney keeps man-sized safes in his office for paperwork.
"Unless workaday business includes needing someplace large enough to stuff a body, why the vice president needs a man-sized safe is unclear," Stewart said. "Unless he says, hey Johnson, put the papers in this safe, and then stay in there with them."
In an interview with correspondent Samantha Bee, Stewart argued the Supreme Court may not be as conservative as many fear because Justice Anthony Kennedy, who sided with conservatives on several recent 5-4 decisions, could just as easily side with the four liberal members of the court.
In that case, Bee said, the vote would be "5-5" because "if Kennedy were to rule on the liberal side, then Justice Cheney would cast the tie-making vote.
"The vice president is not only in both and neither of the executive and legislative branches, he's also a member of the Supreme Court," she tells Stewart. "Have you read the constitution?"
Stewart said he had read the constitution, but not that day.
"Check it again," Bee advises. "Article 28, it's in red. I think it's sheep's blood."
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