Word: veep
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McCain to his top veep vetter, Washington lawyer A.B. Culvahouse: "What's your bottom line?" Culvahouse: "John, high risk, high reward." McCain: "You shouldn't have told me that. I've been a risk-taker all my life...
...absence of the memos, some Democrats have been taking shots at the former Veep. Yesterday, Sen. Russ Feingold accused Cheney of "misleading the American people" about the two memos. Speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the so-called torture memos, Feingold said: "I am a member of the Intelligence Committee, and I can tell you that nothing I have seen, including the two documents to which [Cheney] has repeatedly referred, indicates that the torture techniques authorized by the last administration were necessary or that they were the best way to get information out of detainees...
...Parsing Cheney - code-named Angler by the Secret Service - is a lot like fishing in dark water; there's a lot going on underneath, but you'd never know it from staring at the surface. So let's take Cheney's own stated explanation first. The former Veep says he's worried that by dismantling a controversial Bush-era terrorist surveillance program and stepping back from harsh interrogation policies, the Obama Administration is putting the nation at risk. "I think it's fair to argue," said Cheney, "that we're not going to have the same safeguards...
...Rice's friends say she in no way relishes playing a bigger role in the inevitable review of Bush era policies. They add she has no intention of trading rhetorical punches with Cheney, and unlike the former veep, she's unlikely to go on TV to defend Bush's policies. But Rice, who is also a fellow at the Hoover Institution, does have other speaking engagements coming up. And it's a safe bet that as the review of Bush interrogation policies heats up, she will be taking on another role in service of her old boss...
...Madoff, but here's a prediction from her 2006 book Essential Astrology for Women: "Corporations will crumble and fall ... Anything with a big pyramid structure and massive skyscraper towers is vulnerable." Dumb luck or precognition? Let's look at her current take on politics. Joe Biden's turn as Veep is ill-starred, says Adams, whereas "Hillary Clinton is set to go up and up. Her chart on the day Obama won was more powerful than...