It a tired but true clich that every American Vice President is just a heartbeat away from the most powerful job in the world
- a job they often never really interviewed for Who are these people? Over more than 200 years the American voters have sent a platoon of rogues cowards drunks featherweights doddering geriatrics bigots & atrocious spellers to Washington DC to sit one bullet cerebral hemorrhage or case of pneumonia away from the highest office in the land Veeps tells the sordid head-scratching perversely-entertaining stories of these men we chosen to ride shotgun in the biggest rig in democracy without ever seriously considering the possibility that they might have to take the wheel