The Unraveling of Dick Cheney - Dan Froomkin eviscerates Cheney

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Froomkin has a complete rundown of what national newspapers are saying about the looneyness of Dickhead. Hits on CNN, Newsweek, Scripps Howard, Maureen Dowd, Carl Hiaasen (personal favorite!), Greg Mitchell, NYT Editorial Board, Jon Stewart, Washington Post, Maury Waas, AP, LA Times, and McClatchy. Nice synopsis of national media coverage.

The Unraveling of Dick Cheney

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, January 29, 2007; 12:18 PM



While Dick Cheney undoubtedly remains the most powerful vice president this nation has ever seen, it's becoming increasingly unclear whether anyone outside the White House believes a word he says.

Inside the West Wing, Cheney's influence remains considerable. In fact, nothing better explains Bush's perplexing plan to send more troops to Iraq than Cheney's neoconservative conviction that showing the world that we have the "stomach for the fight" is the most important thing -- even if it isn't accomplishing the things we're supposed to be fighting for. Even if it's backfiring horribly.

But as his astonishing interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer laid bare last week, Cheney is increasingly out of touch with reality. He seems to think that by asserting things that are simply untrue, he can make others believe they are so.

Maybe that works within the White House. But for the rest of us, it's becoming a better bet to assume that everything -- or almost everything -- Cheney says is flat wrong.

And the rest of the story is at -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns