What's he doing in there?

Lord knows what he'd make of Wallace Stevens, but Dick Cheney, and his lawyers have parsed every law or regulation that might check his seemingly autocratic power, and determined that they do not apply to him. He's sounding more and more like Darth Vader.

He's the Jesse James of the conservative movement - a right wing populist outlaw. He's able to scream about obeying the letter of the law, and then twisting the law into a Chinese puzzle for which only he has the key.

What question pops into your mind when you read these things?

What's he got to hide?

I am not an entity

Dick Cheney has always been despicable and frightening, but he's becoming something out of a bad horror movie.

A few days ago in a spectacular bid to avoid another set of laws he doesn't agree with, he seems to be claiming that he doesn't exist. He said his office is not an entity in the executive branch. And that would make him a non-entity too. Meaning that he's a ghost, an invisible man, a spirit of the nether world. At many times in the past eight years, I guess he's been a little of each. Maybe he's just trying to cash in on some life insurance. Maybe he's referring to his approval ratings.

Or maybe, he's saying what he's been saying for eight years: "The laws you humans create do not apply to me."