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ACTUALLY, WHATEVER CLOUDS REMAIN OVER the White House were not hard to explain, say those who have studied weather patterns between Bushland and Cheneyland. They have always been separate worlds, far more than the public image of a tight, disciplined team suggests. Bushland is by instinct more reformist, more political, more female and, in places, deeply devout. Cheneyland is more Establishment, more male, more button-down, more secretive. One man came to town worried about domestic affairs; the other was focused entirely on matters foreign, although 9/11 forced a convergence. One man wants to do the deal, find the compromise...
...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 from the presidency in the wake of Watergate, particularly with the War Powers Resolution and congressional oversight of foreign policy and the CIA. He fought successfully all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to keep the 2001 deliberations...
...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 approach of Cheneyland. This has been most obvious in Bush's handling of North Korea and Iran, where Administration policy has softened noticeably, aligning the U.S. with countries that the President had been at odds with over Iraq. Cheney was also the White House point man in trying to thwart Senator John McCain...
...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 to himself," a former Bush aide says. That sometimes cut Cheney off from hearing...
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