Why don't we have a Vice President?

[BobLibDem]

Mr. WeakHeart is biding his time quietly profiteering from the war that he talked Mr. WeakBrain into.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

From the link that ratatoskK provided:

In the hours that followed hijacked planes being flown into buildings in New York and Washington, correspondents say Mr Cheney took charge of running the government while President Bush stayed out of the capital.

As you were saying, Spavined Gelding*…

*By the way, is that bog spavin or bone spavin?

[JRDelirious]

*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers *
** Bush43 having learned a major lesson from Bush41’s troubled administration (having a senior member who attracts endless jokes about his intelligence is a bad idea)
**

Then how do we explain putting the person who attracts mockery at his intelligence at the HEAD of the ticket? :d&r:

[Doomtrain]

*Originally posted by Blalron *
**I’d love to be Vice President. I’d get a salary of 200k a year, for doing absolutely nothing except calling the White House periodically to see if the President was still alive, and breaking ties in the Senate. That’s my dream job. **

“Am I president yet?”
“No!”
“Am I president yet?”
“No!”
"Am I president yet?
“KNOCK IT OFF!”

[Gala_Matrix_Fire]

Brandus, I’ve been wondering the same thing myself. I was under the impression he was being kept under wraps until the administration straightens out what its current message is.

[JamesCarroll]

*Originally posted by Vezer *
**“P-a-t-a-t-o-e” doomed Qualye. **

Yea, well at least he never asked a grand jury to define the word “is” for him.

[JamesCarroll]

Seriously though the VP job has usually been (AFAIK) one of either:

• useless funerals and meetings that the president doesn’t want to deal with (Gore, Quayle)

• behinds the doors negotiations with Congress and others (Cheney, LBJ)

• grooming for the top spot (Bush I, Powell in 2006 when DC has another cadiac “episode”)
  But I will give this DQ, when he tried to run in 96 folks asked him why, given the trauma of being VP, he’d run for the top job:

“No kid grows up dreaming of be * Vice * President of the United States”