Like I’m waiting to exhale a hundred times
Here’s a post from TPM talking about the org chart that they’ve posted on the presidential transition site. TPM calls out this block in particular:
There’s something about definitively seeing “The Constitution” at the top of all branches, and seeing the VP definitively inside the executive. I felt a small bit of relief, not a lot, just a little. Like a ship’s passenger on the deck after a violent storm at sea, still holding, white-knuckled, to the rails, for minutes after the storm has passed, and just getting the idea to convince the fingers that they might not have to hold so tightly anymore.
November 7th, 2008 17:55
Go get the original document and scroll forward four more pages. Dick Cheney is listed as president of the Senate. That tells me that this is not a creation of the Obama team, unless they’ve really decided to pull out all the stops on this bipartisan thing.
November 8th, 2008 14:04
The active vice president is always president of the senate. Until Obama and Biden get sworn in, Dick(head) is still running the show at the capitol building.
November 8th, 2008 14:26
Think it over very carefully and then take your best stab at telling me what possible pertinence Cheney, in that post, has to the work of the Obama transition team. Their brief is to plan for what will happen after Obama takes the oath. The organization they concern themselves with does not have Dick Cheney presiding over the Senate: it has Joe Biden. Granted, they’re not going to completely ignore the lame duck session, but it’s about .001% of what they have to concern themselves with.
I guarantee you the document came from a Bush agency.
November 8th, 2008 15:14
hey spinn…here is note to make to yourself…when on a ship IN a violent storm…go INSIDE…it is quite comfortable in your stateroom especially when up on the first class passenger decks….ohhh, unless you only have a steerage class cabin ;-)
November 13th, 2008 16:14
After much thought, here is the possible pertinence:
The 2003 Chrysler LeBaron
November 17th, 2008 15:14
The Federal Government is so far beyond the bounds the Constitution sets for it that putting it at the top of an org chart is nothing more than “feel-good” politics. Virtually nothing Obama claims he will do will fall within the limits set by the U.S. Constitution (McCain would have blatantly violated it as well, BTW, had he won).
November 17th, 2008 15:41
Eh, yeah, I know. But at this point, for now, I’ll take it. I can’t even think of a time Bush did anything that felt like “feel-good” politics for me.