So I'm reading the summary of Inside Washington from last Saturday . . it occurred to me during a graf from Colby King, about how Kerry wants to be Secretary of State (and that this week its rumoured that Sen. Clinton was asked to be SoS), there's no reason I know of for the Secretary of State and the Vice-President to be the same person.
Vice-President and Secretary of State Biden.
Man, it's ultimate power of the sort that makes you want to flip out and kill someone.
Anyway, the only technical objection I can think of is that the SecState is pretty damn busy - it's not like the Vice-President's duties are a 24/7 position, but the occasional time a guy (or gal) would have to do his VP thing is going to just put one more burden on someone trying to be Secretary of State. The Obama Administration might have to find another permanent stand-in for state funerals, or something.
I've always suspected that what made Dick Cheney so dangerous as the VP was the large amounts of idle time on his hands, his experience, and a complacent boss willing to let his minions do it all. Joe Biden is almost as much of a threat as Cheney except Obama doesn't outsource. However, Cheney's now set the precedent. Giving Joe the State Department would give him something to do rather than sitting in the undisclosed location and hatching nefarious plans.
It's just an idle thought . .
Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Dude... you referenced the sacred scroll. I fear I have no choice now but to eat a frisbee and die.
Get pissed, eat a frisbee and die. Because all the steps are sacred, dude.
Although I'm fairly certain that our ninja saviours didn't mean getting pissed as in drunk. More like hammering nails in our skulls.
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