The Vice President-C is a mostly symbolic job.

Uh-huh.

However, if we came to a...

different understanding,

I can handle the more mundane jobs

over seeing bureaucracy, military, energy,

and foreign policy.

Yeah, right.

I like that.

That's a scene from the movie Vice,

the new biopic about former Vice President Dick Cheney,

that this week picked up eight Oscar nominations,

including one for Best Picture, Best Actor

for the Performance by Christian Bale,

and Best Director and Screenplay

for the Man Behind the Movie, Adam McKay.

The film is a look back at an era long before Donald Trump,

when Cheney, perhaps the most powerful Vice President

in U.S. history, took over much of the U.S. government,

distorting intelligence about weapons of mass destruction

in order to push the country into war and Iraq,

getting approval for waterboarding

...