>After seeing Cheney doing all the media interface work and transition setup here in the DC area the past few days while Bush is kept hidden away in Texas, I'm feeling a lot better about things...

Bruce, GW is inexperience, but I do beleave that he has some good qualities about him; qualities that will help him becaome a good leader. People in Texas has always liked the way he has reached out to others to work together. The feeling is that if things didn't get done, it wasn't because he didn't do his part.

Just between you and me (wink wink), the office of Gov. of Texas is not a very powerful. It's main function, IMO, is to try to bring different ideas together in the Texas legislature and they most of the grunt work.