By Dylan Matthews
Here I was, all ready to get in a huffy about how Obama had kind of sort of named Sam Nunn (yes, this Sam Nunn) as one of the three wisest people he knows, when Matt Yglesias decided to go constitutional on the veepstakes question:
Like everyone else in DC, I'm pondering the so-called “Veepstakes” — Evan Bayh? Joe Biden? Jack Reed? Sebelius? — except unlike a lot of people I'm having a hard time developing really strong opinions about it. Which reminds me of one pretty strongly-held opinion of mine: We should eliminate the office of the Vice Presidency. […] At the end of the day, after all, the Vice President’s core job function is simply to take over the government in case the President dies. But it would be easy enough for the line of succession to simply run through the cabinet (SecState, SecDef, etc…) rather than their being a specially designated “inaugurate in case of death” figure.
