country, and to assess the impact of the government's policies.

The inaugural session of the “transforming India lecture” – by Singapore Deputy Prime Minister, to address India’s top echelons – is being seen as Modi’s attempt to gradually unclutter the bureaucracy and to orient them along the best practices of governance on the international level.

On a political level, he is goading the BJP-ruled states to learn from the best practices from other states. Though the initiative is still at an incipient stage, it is nevertheless regarded as a positive step for evolving a coherent and effective development plan for the country.Cheney more striking is that he is enormously smarter and more competent than Bush, his token boss.

He is so dangerous and frightening that no impeachment of Bush effort ever stood a chance - not as long as "President Cheney" enters your consciousness. Cheney has become Bush's shield.

When reality hits the fan we can use the lessons-learned approach to stay sane. With his finger-in-the-eye disdain for what anybody else (or history) thinks of him, Cheney offers a far better lesson-learned benefit than the stumbles and fumbles of Bush the Smirker. Bush is a joke. Cheney is a monster.

Take Cheney's current view that he is a part of the legislative branch, not the executive, so he does not have to comply with an Executive Order on reporting use of secret