So far, I’ve only gotten through the first three [and all of the footnotes]. If one took the snotty attitude out of the piece, it appears to be a “how to” on crisis management.

I found the “O’Niel” reference interesting. The only time that man ever said anything that I felt had economic, moral, ethical and functional planning sense, was in a talk he gave referencing American Economic Aid to Africa and other primitive, backward, failed regions.

He quite sensibly pointed out that the most critical need [ergo, the item which should receive the lion’s share of aid] , was access to clean, potable water; that most of their diseases and so many of their problems descended from lack of it. mariana

Can you imagine the state of security and the economy if they had used the Lib/Dem/Academe model of “consensus?” By the time all the academics and politicians had their say, dithering, and coming up with a “compromised consensus,” the economy and the country would have been buried. mariana 6/30/07

Draft Cheney!

Cheney’s dick tastes funny…

Do you really mean to suggest (as your reference to the VP’s role in presiding over the Senate would suggest) that the Vice President is subject to the rules governing members of Congress, including congressional ethics rules? I thought not.

What about the Judicial Branch then, since he, and he alone, apparently gets to decide what the law and our Constitution mean.

Incidentally, I hope you are right about the successor role being just a formality, because I don’t believe our contitutional system could survive a fortnight with Mr. Cheney as Chief Executive.

Ron Paul in CNN debate on June 5, 2007!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJKGfAWQUo

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor—he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation—he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city—he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.

— Cicero: orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and philosopher of Ancient Rome.

“In the time of universal deceit, telling the truth
is a revolutionary act” GEORGE ORWELL

You do know that the VP presides over the senate, right? And that the senate is part of the legislative branch of the government? And beyond this role and his “successor” role, VPs don’t mean jack, right?

K. Just checking.

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1) The aforementioned “series”

2) Mana Dilbank:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501565_pf.html

3) Eugene “I’ve Made A Livlihood Out Of Trashing The Bush Administration” Robinson:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501467_pf.html

The reason for all this ink & cyberspace on Cheney: Like Nixon might have said, after 18 months, you won’t “Have Dick to kick around anymore”.

BTW: Did y’all catch me on “Countdown” with Teeth Overbite last night?

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