If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all.

I have a feeling he licking his wounds and biding his time. His patsy is the one who has to out and make nice with the winners. Just wait until the Democrats start flexing their muscles on Iraq. then we'll see Cheney come slithering back. But now he's like the later period Elvis: a bloated wrecked shaddow of his former self playing to the backwater bible belt.

How long do you think it will be before Cheney resigns for "health reasons"? And they get some hopeful presidential nominee to take his place?

Before the election:

"Both of those men are doing fantastic jobs, and I firmly support them." –President Bush, saying he expects Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld to stay on for the remainder of his term (Reuters, Wednesday)

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Well, Rumsfeld was thrown under the bus, so we can only wonder how much truth is left in that statement. Too bad Bush didn't also lump Karl Rove into his public statement of support...

He gets quiet like that when he is scheming more treachery.

Cheney doesn't care. He's not the front man. He's barely elected in the first place. He could care less if he's seen outside the Mt. Weather emergency bunker/when the shit falls apart alternative White House. He's never actually needed to be the tiebreaker in Congress and he won't need to be now. As it is, he isn't going to rerun in 2008.

My best guess is that James Baker has assigned Dick to traditional vice president duties. (You die, I fly)

I would love to know the details of the extent to which James Baker is directing matters and would like to believe Cheney was told in less than delicate language that his like minded buddy Rumsfeld was out due to incompetence and he could either STFU or join him.

Joe Scarborough made me laugh when he said that Democrats forced Rumsfeld's resignation. Most of them hadn't even slept off election night wins. This knife making this cut came from someone much closer than the opposition party.

If you don't have anything nice to say keep you F-ing gob shut!!

the VP of Torture has run out of ammunition. Now that Rummy's out of the picture he will have a rougher time of always being hidden in undisclosed locations. With Rummy lately taking all of the upfront flack he could weave and dodge water boarding issues and last throes predictions. Now that he has had a "protective" layer removed, perhaps he' a bit more cautious. Perhaps. Careful people. Wounded animals and all...

...that the vice presidency wasn't worth a bucket of warm spit.

Then again, neither is the current occupant of that office, Vice President Richard B. Cheney. Seems like a perfect match, don't you think?

Perhaps Vice doesn't have much to say because he's busy thinking about all the documents he has to shred related to secret energy meetings and other back room shenanigans. Hmmmmmmm.

Garner's real quote was that the Vice Presidency wasn't worth a bucket of warm piss. It was bowdlerized by the media into "spit":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nance_Garner

My favorite vice presidential quote is from Woodrow Wilson's veep Thomas Marshall: "What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar."

Hannibal dickster is just contemplating dinner, washed down with a nice Chianti. to quote dylan: "I hope that you die, and your death will come soon/I'll follow your casket on a pale afternoon/And watch while you're lowered down to your death bed/and stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead."

...I expect you're exactly correct, kb3edk. I didn't try to research Garner's quote in depth, and the usual version you hear is of course "spit".

My real dilemma was, should I post something that changed the word "spit" to another very familiar word that rhymes with it...I don't like to stoop that low, although you could argue that Cheney has dragged the office of VP, the White House and this whole country into the crapper right along with him.

... where he filed that envelope containing W's military and arrest records, just in case he needs them in the immediate future.

...then the question is, who will be the new puppetmaster?

Oh my God, it might be Nancy Pelosi. If the Republicans are ready to cut George Bush loose, and if Bush doesn't want to submit to his Dad James Baker's advice, then Bush might have to throw himself to the Democrats and do what they tell him to do. Otherwise Bush may end up all alone in the White House with no support at all, and no idea what to do next.

Bush could end up his presidency being Nancy's poodle. I'm not sure I could bet against that.

...that down deep GWB is really a liberal -- if not too bright -- kinda guy who's been dancing with the people who brought him to the party but now will have a chance to ditch the clammy-cold bastards and do some more humanistic things to try and polish up his legacy before it's too late. The first thing could be real, empathetic immigration reform. Then a raise in the min-wage. Could universal health care be far behind? What has GWB got to lose at this point? I can just hear it, in a Doonesbury-style speech over a shot of the White House, "God damn it, Karl, stop tellin' me what to do! I been listenin' to you for six years and where's it got me? Everyone hates my guts! I'm gonna go down in history as the worst president we ever had. I've had enough. Now, maybe if I work with these jokers I can give folks SOME damn thing to remember me for that doesn't make 'em want to spit on the ground! You, too, Dick, just shut the hell up! Now, Nancy...what was that you were saying about health care for everyone?"

...we had, 'The New Dick'. Now, we have, 'The Silent Dick'. In retrospect, I really liked, 'The New Dick' better, although both have various similarities. Still, 'The Silent Dick' seems to be silent only because he's about to have an embolism...