Snugs, the Vice President also loves what he's doing. He and Dubya hit it off the summer of 2000. When GWB asked him to be his running mate, Lynne tells how then Mr. Cheney rushed in and excitedly said, "Honey, let's sell the house [in Houston, I think]. We're getting back into politics!" They had to sell their property in Texas because our Constitution mandates that the President and Vice President cannot be from the same state. So they had to reestablish residency in Wyoming, where they had always maintained a home anyway.
The VP loves his interaction with the Congress and is essentially the President's point man on Capitol Hill. He is also one of Dubya's most trusted and heeded advisors. And, of course, we all know the vital role he filled on 9/11/01 when he stayed in the WH and headed the command center.
Dick Cheney is, by far, the greatest Vice President in American history who will never be president. I, for one, regret that his health history prevented him from ever running for president, because he'd have been a great one. But I also frequently marvel that he even became VP, because the odds for him were very, very long indeed.
And, of course, we all know the vital role he filled on 9/11/01 when he stayed in the WH and headed the command center. I sometimes wonder if we as a people will ever realize just how fortunate we were that Dick Cheney became George Bush's Vice-President. I believe that there is such a thing as destiny, for individuals and for entire groups of people, and that both of these men were given to us for these times. But maybe I'm just being too simplistic, I'm sure some people would think so.
Yes I totally agree with you he does enjoy what he is doing and that is does help with stress if you enjoy it, it becomes goods stress not bad stress.
I think but I maybe wrong that the house was Dallas not Houston and I have a strange recollection not sure but I think I am right it was in Lynne's name not his.
IMHO he is one of the only true Washington movers and shakers in the Bush Administration apart from probably Rumsfeld and he has to be careful not to be too party political being Secretary of Defence (still do not really understand this as it is not the case in the UK). There are several comments on Yahoo that agree with your comments about the VP being the point man on the hill for the President especially in this second term.
IMHO in the second term we may not see him much up front but behind the scences with all the domestic policies the President has pledge to attend to I see Dick Cheney's role being just as important as it was the first term.