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...shone in his mouth, Saddam Hussein-style. Wary of electing house pets which are too docile for the voters’ tastes, Helen Kennedy of The New York Daily News cautioned that “Edwards has not been much of an attack dog, a key quality in a veep...
...issue and that an honest analyst wouldn't feel pressure to twist intelligence. The House intelligence committee (and possibly its Senate counterpart, sources say) plans to question the CIA analysts who briefed Cheney, and that could lead to calling Cheney's hard-line aides and perhaps the Veep himself to testify...
...because he's told me he doesn't want to be President." Cheney had his fourth heart attack in November 2000, amidst the Florida recount drama--which lent him further credibility as one who can be appointed but not elected. "For the first time since Truman, you have a Veep who does not dream, does not wonder, does not think every day about being President," says a White House official. "And so Cheney has a much larger role than Bill could have given Al or 41 gave Dan Quayle or Ronald Reagan gave...
When she gets there, or anywhere else these days, Cheney is a lot more subdued than she used to be. Far from being "hard to muzzle" as Bill Bennett predicted when her husband was selected as Veep, Cheney has voluntarily relinquished leading the posse in the cultural wars. As head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, she fought against educational softheads veering away from traditional curriculums, denounced rap lyrics (that means you, Eminem) and celebrated Western patriarchs. As the host of Crossfire Sunday, she shouted down liberals on subjects ranging from trigger locks (against them) to fur coats...
...politics, marriages matter big time, as the Veep might put it. Since high school, Lynne has been the yin for her husband's yang. The quiet captain of the football team went into a full swoon over the drum majorette, who on their first date nearly 40 years ago wore a red strapless gown with a crinoline skirt, which Lynne jokes accounted for their second date. But he never actually asked her to marry him. "He was incremental about it," she says of a man who is incremental about little else...