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...least half of his caucus - or 100 members - to vote for the legislation so that Democrats are not left passing this still very unpopular bill by themselves less than two months before the election. Boehner simply doesn't have the votes and nothing that President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Paulson or even Boehner has said has swayed the GOP's rank and file...
...notion that a massive, unprecedented intervention in the financial markets should be the final economic act of a Republican President was made all the more stunning by the sight of no less a free-marketeer than Vice President Dick Cheney being dispatched to the Hill to sell it to furious Republicans. But Congress is coming late to this crisis. Paulson, Bernanke and Geithner--whose conference calls can number more than half a dozen a day--have been quietly trying to keep the ship in the channel for months. Treasury Secretary Paulson, 62, was one of Wall Street's toughest dealmakers...
...goes on the offensive” for them. And oh, what an offensive. Within the first chapter, she invokes Orwell, dubs the George W. Bush administration a “Murderers’ Row of lethal bat-swingers,” and speaks of an enduring Dick Cheney fantasy involving nuclear terrorism against civilian targets. She describes waterboarding as “drowning rational thought.” She gives Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) the title of “Dumbest Senator” and harps on the “crotch-hugging flight suit” Bush wore...
...Cheney and his legal counsel, David Addington, effectively steer White House policy on the warrantless wiretapping program. "With Bush's consent , Cheney unleashed foreign intelligence agencies to spy at home ... It is unlikely that the history of U.S. intelligence includes another operation conceived and supervised by the office of the vice president." When the Deputy Attorney General refuses to re-authorize the program, the stubbornness of Cheney and his team almost leads to mass resignations at the Justice Department...
...LOWDOWN: Readers won't walk away from Angler feeling any differently about Vice President Cheney. His secretive, power-hungry reputation has been earned with good reason - this is, after all a man who, when tapped to lead the Vice Presidential search committee, effectively chose himself before interviewing anyone else. And while Gellman's book feels more like a collection of set-pieces than a cohesive whole, this look at this second most powerful office in the land couldn't be timelier given the current debate about vice presidential qualifications...