Reply #34: Not powerless, but co-equal.

[LiberalAndProud]

I understand that some who came of age during the Bush era would be confused by this concept. But historically, we have three co-equal branches of government. There is the exececutive branch, of which the Vice President is fact a member (regardless of what you may have heard from Cheney.) There is the legislative branch, in which Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman are currently drunk on the power of the fulcrum. And there is the judicial branch, who also got a bit intoxicated when they were given the opportunity to install a president into office, disregarding the will of the voters.

The press has historically been referred to as the fourth estate. They have, however, largely abandoned that role in that past several years.

Just a little civics lesson. We may need to be reminded after the debacle of the last decade.