Word: cheneyism
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...advantage for Bush was that it meant Cheney could be the lightning rod, draw the fire away from the President and not much care how badly he was burned. Every good cop needs a bad cop, the partner who leans so far forward that Bush can seem measured in comparison, even as together they haul the entire debate further and further toward their shared vision. Cheney came into office talking about treaties that deserved to be broken, like the ABM Treaty, and powers that needed to be restored. In Cheneyland, it is gospel that Congress took far too much authority...
...recent months the internal dynamic has shifted. Through the first term, Cheney's dominion over foreign policy was unchallenged. And while he remains the Administration's voice on national security, the ascendance of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the distraction of the CIA-leak investigation and public doubts about the handling of the Iraq occupation mean the Vice President often finds himself advocating rather than orchestrating. An overstretched military narrows Administration options; Rice talks often about realistic approaches, and the Administration is more willing to acknowledge the utility of allies and even the U.N. than to pursue the more confrontational...
...internal divide over how hard to push on an issue as contentious as torture reflects how even six years in office together has not integrated the Bush and Cheney teams; in fact, in some ways they have grown further apart. It was Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, now indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice, who designed Cheneyland, which is largely housed in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, across from the White House. Determined to maintain tight control, Libby created a bottleneck beneath Cheney by trying to keep "all sensitive or politically interesting information...
...Bush and Cheney have evolved. "Over time, the President has grown more confident," a presidential adviser says. "His other advisers have become more experienced and more confident about issues that they might have deferred to Cheney on. It's a natural thing." Some Republican officials said the flap over the shooting might accelerate the normal process whereby Presidents push their Vice Presidents away toward the end, often because the Veeps are running on their own but sometimes just so it is clear who owns the legacy. "No one remembers F.D.R.'s Vice Presidents," says a Bush aide, suggesting the scale...
...Libby trial may make Bush want to ensure some distance. Libby told Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigating the CIA leak that his "superiors" had authorized him to reveal classified information from a secret report about Iraq's weapons capability. Could Cheney have been one of those superiors? In his Fox interview, Cheney declared that "there is an Executive Order that specifies who has classification authority and obviously focuses first and foremost on the President but also includes the Vice President." In fact, a 2003 update of a 1995 Executive Order gives the Vice President additional authority over classification...