He's a bully, he is, The Silent Voice

['Still following up on the Notes from The Cube since Monday]

Yeah, that's about what it comes down to: The Silent Voice Veep is a bully.

He's a bully in the classic way: fawning to the top, silent to his equals, and stone mean to his underlings - or anyone he thinks he can push around. That may even be his equals, "official" equals, since we already noticed that The Silent Voice Veep really is the First Among Equals by fact, if not title. And it's not so clear he's not de facto equal with the Prez, since he usually acts on behalf of the Prez. Oh, it's not said aloud - it just is.

But doesn't this make this Veep the Not-So-Silent Voice?

"Silence" is a funny thing: The Cube started noting The Silent Voice Veep at one particular meeting when he dominated by his intentional silence and removal from the discussion - and everyone else, them VPs, stuttered along awkwardly saying almost nothing until they could establish what The Silent Voice wanted. 'Turns out that the silence was a coda to earlier, private, articulations.

Observing further than last Monday's Meeting With No Voices, The Cube has observed The Silent Voice Veep collaring colleagues and pummelling them with an intense aggressiveness that borders on abusive. Rarely is his voice raised - though it is, sometimes, when he wishes to humiliate the other Veep in front of, say, the other Veep's admin secretary. To underlings who don't cower behind false bonhommie, the Bully Boy Silent Voice Veep has been heard to bark. To slam his hands on a desk. To steam . . .

Not a pretty sight.

Not a pretty boy.

No, he's not, the Bully Boy Silent Voice Veep.