June 24, 2007 (LPAC)--In an op ed. in the New York Times entitled "A Vice President without borders, bordering on lunacy, columnist Maureen Dowd writes: "It's hard to imagine how Dick Cheney could get more dastardly, unless J.K. Rowling has him knock off Harry Potter next month. Harry's cloak of invisibility would be no match for Vice's culture of invisibility.... Even in my harshest musing about the vice president, I never imagined that he would declare himself not only above the law, not only above the president, but actually his own dark planet--a separate entity from the White House...." She then reports that according to Cheney and Addington, "Cheney ... is the president of the Senate, so he's also part of the legislative branch. Vice is casting himself as a constitutional chimera, an extralegal creature with the body of a snake and the head of a sea monster."