Bill is the New Dick?

Garry Wills argues that the return to the White House of President Clinton, along with President Clinton, would not only subvert the founders' brilliant executive-checked by the legislative branch formula for government, but would indeed continue the subversion of that process by Dick Cheney:

"One problem with the George W. Bush administration is that it has brought a kind of plural presidency in through the back door. Vice President Dick Cheney has run his own executive department, with its own intelligence and military operations, not open to scrutiny, as he hides behind the putative president.

No other vice president in our history has taken on so many presidential prerogatives, with so few checks. He is an example of the very thing James Wilson was trying to prevent by having one locus of authority in the executive. The attempt to escape single responsibility was perfectly exemplified when his counsel argued that Mr. Cheney was not subject to executive rules because he was also part of the legislature."