Is it Janet Reno and her guns-a-blazing, take no prisoner attitudes in Waco and with Elias Gonzalez? Is it Henry Kissinger and his Barbara Walters loving brand of banality and evil? Or is it the multiheaded serpent of the Bush neoconservative cabinet, headed by Cheney who reminds me of the emperor from Star Wars?
I go for someone wacky. Remember Alexander Haig? Despite the fact that the order of succession is clearly laid out, Haig said, ***** it and took over the presidency after Reagan was shot.
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Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State in that order, and should the President decide he wants to transfer the helm to the Vice President, he will do so. He has not done that. As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the Vice President and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
That was awesomely insane. That was one of my favorite political moments ever just b/c it was so ****** up. Haig would have really enjoyed Dubya's administration so much more than his own, though it is also funny to think of it in connection to Phil Hartman's hilarious SNL sketch about what it was like if we lived in a world of a competent and intelligent Ronald Reagan.