roachboy

ladies and gentlemen, we have lost the vice president's office.
we dont know where it is.
that is why it does not submit to oversight.
we cannot find it, so it cannot recieve requests and directives.
of course it "obeys laws" but no particular laws because it is in no particular place.
besides at this point there is no separate section of law that delimits what the newly-created independent branch of government called the vice president can and cannot do.
so it cannot break any laws because none apply to it: but of course, it observes the relevant laws.
it just turns out that there arent any.
well, maybe a few. we cant tell you what they are of course. but rest assured that once we find the vice president's office, we will make it submit to oversight. you can be sure of that buckaroo. o yes you can.
but we can't find it.
the president's office sez that it is ok that we cannot find the vice-president's office because, well, it just is.
everything is fine.

i feel like we are living in the richard bey show. you remember, the talk show that was the worst of all talk shows, that defied ridicule by ridiculing itself, and so could not be taken as a joke because it presented itself as a joke. and there was something disarming about the richard bey approach.
it seems that the bush administration, and its mutant duplicate in the floating head of dick cheney, have studied richard bey long and learned well from it.

if only this was tv.
if only this was tv.
if only this was tv.

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