No Need To Delegate To Grown-Ups

by digby

It occurs to me as I read stories like this, which show that Dick Cheney was personally involved in the US Attorney scandal too, that one of the things the Democrats could do on the campaign trail would be to emphasize repeatedly that they will be the actual president and they promise not to delegate the job to the vice. It’s the equivalent of Bush’s “honor and integrity” line, designed to stick it to the current president and tar the other side with his shortcomings. And it has the benefit of being something that I’m sure will be true. Not one of the Democratic candidates is so callow and easily led that they will allow a dark, unaccountable Rasputin-like figure such as Dick Cheney to run a shadow government out of the vice president’s office.

The Dem nominee should come up with a line that goes something like, “the Bush administration liked to say that the “grown-ups” were in charge. Well, when I’m president, the president is going to be in charge.”

This reign of Cheney is very creepy and unprecedented in American politics. I don’t think people want it to happen again.

Update: From the comments: “The Bush administration liked to say that the grown-ups were in charge. Well, when I’m president, the president is going to be a grown-up.”

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