Bush fights subpoenas, claims "Executive Privilege". Cheney looks on jealously.

President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.

Bush’s attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over subpoenaed documents for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor.

In reaction, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy accused the administration of shifting “into Nixonian stonewalling” and revealing “disdain for our system of checks and balances.”

I bet that Dick Cheney wishes he had not claimed that he was not part of the executive branch now. Then he would not have had to cave like a little bitch when Rahm Emanuel called his bluff!

I wonder if the White House has any plans to build a moat to stave off the assault by the Democrats. I am loving the Democrats right now!