Watch as Rep. Steve Cohen questions David Addington as to the status of the Vice Presidency, resulting in Cohen defining the Veep as "kind of a barnacle" attached to the Executive Branch.

Hat-tip ThinkProgress.

Thus, we can refer to Mr. Cheney as nothing more than a barnacle that should be scraped off the hull of our Ship of State, yes?

This is an Open Thread.

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Dan Froomkin, on WashingtonPost.com, noted today that Vice President Cheney's chief of staff David Addington is going to appear before the House Judiciary Committee this Thursday.