"He's acting as if he's unaccountable -- a whole fourth branch of government unto himself. So my view is if you're not in the executive branch we shouldn't fund you as the executive branch," Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., said.

Emanuel is set to introduce his bill this week. The vice president's spokeswoman accused Emanuel of "playing politics."

Hmm that's a good idea, cut off Cheney's funding, which would mean that the power and water would eventually be cut off as well.

Now the only question left is, "who's going to do it?"

I can see it now Cheney's sitting at his table snickering to himself about seceding from the executive branch, the cool air conditioning blowing through the stray hairs of his bald head, while eating a giant bowl of gumbo, when suddenly... the door bell rings.

"What the hell", Cheney thinks, "This is supposed to be a safe secure location"

"Who is it!", Cheney screams out the side of his mouth, pieces of gumbo falling on the floor and his suit.

"Washington D.C. Power and Light company sir, you have an over due bill and we either need to collect it, or shut your power off"

"Oh , uh, just a minute", Cheney says, trying to compose himself, "I'll cut you a check".

The poor electric man is waiting outside thinking everything's cool, the door slowly opens and then BAM! Cheney shoots him, then goes inside, pours a stiff drink to calm his nerves and later in the evening he'll tell the press that he was really trying to shoot somekind of waterfowl that was carrying the Bird Flu. ( of course the family of the meter man will later apologize to Cheney)

Clint, Missouri Bushwhacker