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I would like to point out here the similarities between this (unsurprising) news and the Wall Street Coup from the 1930s. For those not familiar with it, a fascist element with the US power elite attempted to organize a coup against the Fabian socialist Roosevelt clique to seize power, end the New Deal, and get the US back on the gold standard. Their plan, though, was not to immediately supplant Roosevelt, but rather to have a strong (straw) man co-directing. “We might have an Assistant President…to take the blame; and if things do not work out, he can drop him.’ He [said] that it did not take any Constitutional change to authorize another Cabinet official… to take over the details of the office - take them off the President’s shoulders. He mentioned the position would be a secretary of general affairs - a sort of super-secretary…. or a secretary of general welfare, I cannot recall which…. They talked about the kind of relief that ought to be given the President.” Which sounds like a Cheney vice-presidency, or a perhaps, a Biden vice-presidency. Once again, what Bush has sown, Obama shall reap.

via:Yahoo

WASHINGTON – Vice President-elect Joe Biden was all smiles Thursday when he paid a courtesy call the man he will succeed, Dick Cheney. But he has insisted he wants to be nothing like him. Biden has called Cheney “the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history” and said he couldn’t name a single good thing Cheney had done.

But even if he won’t acknowledge any similarities, there’s one way that Biden wants to be like Cheney — a strong partner in governing the country.

Biden is proving to be a hands-on No. 2 to President-elect Barack Obama. He is carving out his own niche, specializing in foreign affairs, his area of expertise for decades in the Senate, and sticking close to Obama.

Past vice presidents have often been relegated to ceremonial roles, without major input on daily decisions. But the last two vice presidents, Cheney and Al Gore, have been extraordinarily involved and insisted on private weekly lunches with their bosses.

Biden has said he told Obama, before accepting the running mate slot, that he wouldn’t want a peripheral assignment like reorganizing government, which Gore took on, along with other tasks. In a New Yorker interview last month, he said he told Obama: “I don’t want to be a vice president who is not part of the major decisions you make.”