Co Presidency

[bballny]

One of the things I was taught in history is that a weak president becomes a disaster. We have moved towards a stronger and stronger vice presidency over the last 25 years. First GW Bush was a very active VP and Al Gore was also a very active VP. However even though they were active it was never a doubt in nnyone's mind who was the leader. But they pale in comparison with Dickhead who for all practical purposes is a co-president with dipshit.
We have ended up with a VP who doesn't need answer to anyone since he wasn't elected. Every time he stands up and speaks nowadays he make the dipshit look weaker and weaker. Mark my words that in 30 years this will be one of the main issues that damaged dipshit and led ot his entire failure as a president.

[Ezlivin]

1. We have a President and we have a Leader - they're not the same person

I'm surprised by people who think that Bush is leading the country. He does nothing but endless campaigning. The real power is Dick Cheney.

What involvement did Bush have in PNAC? What was he doing when Cheney and Rumsfeld were working in Nixon's administration, laying the foundation for the future neo-con revolution?

Bush was a tabula rasa for them to use.

[Sammy Pepys]

2. To be nitpicky...

The VP is elected....see Amednment XII.

[Warpy]

3. The GOP has tried to pick witless front men in my lifetime

starting with Eisenhower (who wasn't as witless as they thought, given his exit speech). The one exception was Nixon, who actually tried to run things and did so to the detriment of the corporations, signing the EPA into law among others. Ford replaced him, and put a decent face on a do nothing administration. Reagan and both Stupids were front men, largely figureheads, while the real work was behind the scenes and done by men who tried never to appear on camera.

Stupid II is the worst and most witless of the lot, though, insulated from all bad news as he flits blithely to one fundraiser after another, leaving the running of his country to the ideologues, the corrupt, and the religiously insane.

It's got to change. THEY won't change, so we have to.

[acmejack]

4. Some very nice observations, Warpy.

Most of the heavy lifting has always been done by anonymous people laboring behind the scenes. Publicity is anathema to them, only the connected and the elite know who they are. The time has come to place the interests of the People to the forefront vice the interests of the privileged few.

The question is can we make that happen? Will the oligarchy permit it to take place? Every day that passes makes a positive outcome that much less likely to occur, IMHO.