It drives the left nuts. Today the Washington Post tries again to tell us that a Vice President of United States actually thinking and working is a travesty.

“Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.

The meeting came one day before White House officials tried to get approval for the same program from then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who lay recovering from surgery in a hospital, according to former deputy attorney general James B. Comey.

Comey’s disclosures, made in response to written questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicate that Cheney and his aides were more closely involved than previously known in a fierce internal battle over the legality of the warrantless surveillance program. The program allowed the National Security Agency to monitor phone calls and e-mails between the United States and overseas.

Comey said that Cheney’s office later blocked the promotion of a senior Justice Department lawyer, Patrick Philbin, because of his role in raising concerns about the surveillance.”

The reason that Cheney bugs the left is not because he in this instance did anything wrong, but that he does anything at all. Typically Democrat VPs are do nothing dolts like Gore who Clinton had to seen on “missions” just to get him out of the office.

The fact is that the AG story is dead so this is simply another attempt to get as what Leahy and his group of malcontents want – Bush. In fact the whole of the Pat “Leaky” Leahy witch hearings is to keep going until they get Bush.

Note the source of the acusation, James Comey who is tied to the pants seat of Senator Chuck “The Plumber” Schumer.

“Mr. Comey has confirmed what we suspected for a while — that White House hands guided Justice Department business,” said Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). “The vice president’s fingerprints are all over the effort to strong-arm Justice on the NSA program, and the obvious next question is: Exactly what role did the president play?”

But my God is this a shocker, the VP of the United States disagreeing with the Justice Department over policy, equals “White House hands on the Department of Justice”.

Ain’t like that never happened before, like with VP Johnson and Robert Kennedy during “Camalot”, or more recently Clinton’s hold over Reno.

Yeah Schumer, as soon as you tell us what role you played with Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, and your little buddy Comey to launch the so-called “CIA Leak Scandal”.