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Originally posted by Not Me
I don't think it is that interesting. He has a gay daughter (despite his wife's ridiculous denials) and he is the VP. His position makes perfect sense. He is not out to push his own personal agenda. He is part of the administration and is there to push the administrations agenda. The VP isn't a leadership position. It is why so many VPs hate the job. Their role is to follow the president's lead.
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That distinction (between supporting the FMA and the President) hadn't occurred to me when I saw the coverage of the interview, so I think it's interesting that Sullivan picked up on the way Cheney picked his words carefully. It gives me more respect for Cheney, who is caught between a rock and a hard place.
"He is not out to push his own personal agenda." Much the way that advocates of looking to original intent think that the framers of the Constitution had a detailed view how everything should work 200 years later, you seem to think that George Bush gives birth to the entire agenda of this administration in the same way that a heifer delivers a wet and stumbling calf, scared and breathing, onto the barnyard dirt of the American political system. Read the Suskind book -- it'll open your eyes.
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Originally posted by bilmore
Further bolstering my guess that we won't see a single additional word on the entire subject from Bush. They are finished with this dog.
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I hope you're right, but if they do that they've taken a hit with moderates and independants, and how much do they please their base? It seems to me that they've got to find ways to keep talking about it, and to seize the middle ground on the issue. Expect other culture war issues -- say, a vote on the flag burning amendment -- to arise, too.
