‘Cheney is a joke. An embarrassment the White House has struggled for years to keep out of sight and muzzled. The kind of guy you send on a trip to Australia, which used to be an actual criminal punishment before the invention of airplanes. The only element of Pelosi's judgment I would question at all was her initial response to Cheney's first attack. It was during an earlier ABC interview that Cheney claimed that "if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we'll do is validate the al-Qaeda strategy." All Pelosi needed to do in response was note that if Dick Cheney thinks she and Murtha are badly wrong, they must be on the right track.

This is "Twenty-Nine Percent Approval" Cheney we're talking about. There was no need to "hope the President will repudiate and distance himself from the Vice President's remarks." She should have just smeared Cheney's remarks all over the White House and driven home the point that, in opposing Democratic efforts to change the course in Iraq, Bush is once again taking Cheney's advice - a strategic approach that works exactly never.’

Cheney Follies