Monkey Business
`This is the highlight of my trip, and I can't think of a better way to spend this day,'' Cheney told sailors Friday after watching jets roar off on bombing runs to Afghanistan.
The vice president was spotted Sunday carrying a Vietnam War novel, ``Once an Eagle,'' which an aide said was a favorite he was rereading. The book's cover bore a blurb from U.S. Gulf war commander General Norman Schwarzkopf calling it ``a classic novel of war and warriors.''
I keep thinking of Lon Chaney, playing the Wolfman. Why do Republicans always pick such ridiculous vice-presidents? From Nixon to Agnew to Ford to Quayle to Bush to Cheney-- they are a regular gaggle of cold war gumshoes or bumbling functionaries.
What's scary is that three of the four previous Republican vice-presidents went on to become president.
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